Schneier on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

It doesn’t take much extrapolation from today’s technologies to envision AIs that will plan trips for you, negotiate on your behalf or act as therapists and life coaches. This is surveillance capitalism , and AI is shaping up to be part of it. Phone apps collect and sell your data. Is your AI agent secretly a double agent?

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2023

Given the vast level of tracking and surveillance that technology companies can embed into their widely used products, it is only fair that consumers be informed of how important user data, including information about their every move, is gathered, tracked, and utilized by these companies. The IT giant will pay $9.5

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Data are the most coveted currency of our era, and technology giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon are considered the behemoths of the data gathering industry. And to achieve that goal it needs to gather as much information as possible about us. Maybe not specifically about us as a person, but at least about us as a group.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. The Internet of Things fuses products with communications technology to make daily life more effortless.

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McAfee

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The goal of the Parliament is to facilitate the development of AI technologies by implementing a single European market for AI and removing barriers to the deployment of AI, including through the principle of mutual recognition with regards to the cross-border use of smart products. A Legal Framework for AI.

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