A potential class action says Clearview AI is breaking biometrics privacy law by ransacking social media so police can match photos with IDs.
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Teen entered ‘dark rabbit hole of suicidal content’ online
Molly Russell’s grieving father has backed a psychiatrists’ report, saying that tech companies must be forced to hand over anonymized data.
Facebook and Instagram ban alleged ‘brainwashing’ service
The Spinner personalises “subconscious influencing” for a specific target.
Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think
Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it’s not just dating apps that are doing it…
Fake-review purge: Facebook boots 188 groups, eBay bans 140 shills
After a poke from the UK’s watchdog, the companies promised to beef up filters to strain out those who write, buy and sell fluffy nonsense.
Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes
Quick-n-sleazy edits are still OK, such as the 75% slowdown that made Nancy Pelosi slur or the edit that turned Joe Biden into a racist.
Smartphone location data can be used to identify and track anyone
In today’s smartphone economy, hiding your location has become a major challenge.
Facebook will stop mining contacts with your 2FA number
Facebook clearly likes to use as much of your personal data as it feels it can, and that includes the phone number linked to your 2FA setting.
Man jailed for $122 million scam that fooled Google and Facebook
Lithuanian Evaldas Rimasauskas has been sentenced to five years in jail for successfully defrauding two US companies out of $122 million.
Facebook’s location tracking policy still worries US Senators
Does Facebook continue to track the locations of its users even when they’ve told it not to? Yes!