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TikTok pays $92m to settle misuse of AI to track and store users' data lawsuit.
TikTok vs facial recognition
AI sifts through vast amounts of Russian chatter, but with risks.
AI Analysts vs Russia
The Glitch That Kept Sending The FBI To A Tiny Kansas Farm.
FBI vs GPS
Europe's new digital rules are giving tech leaders nightmares.
Digital Markets Act vs FAANG
Students of color are invisible to teachers more than half the time when taking tests with facial recognition software.
Proctorio vs dark faces
A botched data migration turned ATMs into card-eating monsters.
Japanese Bank vs ATM Cards
DNS oversight body accused again and again of chronic foot-dragging.
ICANN vs Net 4 India
AI cameras sold to schools in New York struggle with people of color and are full of false positives.
Facial Recognition in NY schools
Pornhub goes unpunished for profiting from child sex abuse material (CSAM), sexual assault, and nonconsensual pornography.
Pornhub vs Credit Cards
The European Union is drafting legislation to require big tech companies to share their data with smaller rivals.
EU's Digital Services Act
University of Texas reports 20 years of voting machine security issues.
Election Security Crisis
An Oct 2020 update to Georgia (USA)'s voting machines may have prompted a glitch that hid US Senate candidate names on the electronic ballot.
Election Day Voting Machine Glitch
LeapLab knowingly sold private application data to scammers.
FTC versus LeapLab
Facebook approved Conversion Rate (CR) ads with incorrect virus details.
Coronavirus Misinformation Ads
Google and Apple want to track Bluetooth cellphone data to help slow the spread of Coronavirus.
Virus: Contact Tracing Technology
Adding randomness to census data may increase inaccuracy rather than reduce it.
Wrong 2020 Census
Portland, Oregon and other cities are proposing to ban facial recognition by government and private agencies.
Strict Facial Recognition Bans
Facebook is allowing users to opt-out of ads based on their store purchases.
Off-Facebook Activity Tool
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines to monitor their attendance.
College students surveilled by phone
Google contractor Randstat paid African Americans $5 to unknowingly harvest their faces.
Google facial recognition data collection methods
Did a false reading by the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) cause the planes to nose dive?
Boeing 737 Max airplane crashes
US Senators want to compel tech companies to show you the price of your data.
Bill to disclose cost of your data
Nearly 885 million bank accounts, Social Security numbers, and driver's licenses were exposed.
First American Financial Data Leak
Tesla autopilot traffic fatalities are adding up.
Autonomous Car Crashes
USA government's ban on Huawei technology is being felt at Google and elsewhere.
Huawei 5G Technology Ban
The NSA is begging everyone to update to avoid worms.
Windows BlueKeep Flaw
Outdated network routers may not have enough TCAM memory to store IPv4 addresses.
768k Day
Woman with stillborn baby continues to be bombarded with pregnancy ads.
Tech algorithms failing mothers.
Google employees balk at the appointees due to biases.
The Advanced Technology External Advisory Council.
This is what happens when algorithms call the shots.
The $24 million Amazon book
Twitter shows users who pays for political ads when they display in a feed.
Twitter Political ad tracking in the EU.
Canadian programmer regrets developing an interactive quiz ad with unethical results.
Pharmaceutical ad leads to suicide.
Investors in cryptocurrancy are often unaware that endorsements are paid, which may violate SEC regulations.
Cryptocurrency reviews for sale
Google had illegally accessed details of iPhone users’ internet browsing data, says the UK government."
Google versus iPhone data
Government officials from the USA and EU are investigating the breach of 500,000 Google user accounts profiles.
Google+ data glitch
Life insurance company adds an option to track your Apple Watch or FitBit data to incentivise healthy customers (or to improve their profits).
John Hancock wants your FitBit data
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Sub-minimum-wage online tasks allow humans to contribute to the high-tech tasks, but at a cost.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk keeps workers in poverty.
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Suffering addicts and alcoholics were being misled by strategic digital marketing tactics and pushed to the highest bidder.
Don't Blame PPC, Blame Poor Ethics
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Twitter is "implementing a number of signals to prevent these types of accounts from engaging with others in a deceptive manner."
Twitter is suspending accounts that solicit crypto-
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Courtroom judges use an algorithm called the Public Safety Assessment score to improve pre-trial bail process.
When algorithms rule on jail time
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Bernie was the latest technological development in boosting human connection, until the AI-enhanced app was kicked off Tinder.
How a Matchmaking AI Conquered (and Was Exiled) from Tinder
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Computer models to determine where crime is most likely to occur could reinforce police biases.
Police using technology to predict future crimes
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Major League Baseball (MLB) determined that the Boston Red Sox illicitly used an Apple Watch to gain the upper hand in a game.
Baseball team gains intel with a smartwatch
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CenteryTel, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Spectrum/Charter accused of cramming, slowing speeds, and manipulating usage caps.
Telecom Companies Accused of Bilking Customers.
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As soon as you type or auto-fill an online form, NaviStone's JavaScript compromise your privacy by sending the data to its clients.
NaviStone Logged Your Personal Data before you hit 'Submit'.
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Serves Up A Steaming Pile Of Malware 'Ads' when you do.
Forbes Begs Readers to turn off Adblocker
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It frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world.
Google is not ‘just’ a platform.
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Skittles aren’t just candies. Skype isn’t just a VoIP service. Google, Bing, and Yahoo aren’t just search engines.
Racists are using these codewords online to avoid censorship
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The FTC has never challenged a merger based on the anticompetitive acquisition of data.
Companies buy each other for the data; is that OK?
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Google engineers allowed three test subjects to pass each other notes using a method they created themselves.
Google's AI created its own form of encryption.
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Geofeedia used the company’s APIs to create real-time maps which were used to identify and arrest protestors.
Social Media surveillance tool used to arrest Baltimore protestors.
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HP can use Section 1201 of the DMCA to threaten security researchers who reveal similar defects...
EFF demands HP make amends for self-destructing printers
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He had "knowingly transmitted money intended to facilitate criminal activity- specifically, drug trafficking on Silk Road.
A 26-year old Bitcoin entrepreneur was handed prison time
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If someone violates Facebook's Community Standards while using Live, they take the video down as soon as they're notified.
Facebook French Terrorist Live Stream.
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After Baidu was accused of promoting false medical information on its search platform last month, Chinese regulators issued new rules.
China's New Rules For Online Search And Advertising
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Golden State Warrior phone app may records everything without user knowledge.
NBA Teams App Spies on Fans.
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The suspect learned of the jumbotron's user id and password when it was inadvertently displayed on its screen.
Man Faces Prison Over Porn Video That Played On Roadside Billboard In Jakarta.
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Is it a win for privacy advocates and/or a treat for advertisers?
Google is adding new ways to track you for ads, but it’s letting you call the shots.
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A Digital Bill of Rights could ensure that individuals’ best interests are being defended.
The other 2016 cycle: When technology outpaces policy.
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... or circumventing 3D virtual reality software trial period.
Bitmanagement sues USA Navy
Carol Highsmith sues Getty Images for profiting off of her donation.
Misappropriated Public Domain Images