News

2021

March

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• Amazon’s new rotating, follow-you camera is useful—and invasive. The covid-19 Zoom boom has turned us into camera operators. Making sure everyone’s face can be seen in the videoconference is a daily struggle. Along comes Amazon’s new Echo Show 10,

February

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• Government agencies increasingly are accessing private information. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have tapped a private database containing hundreds of millions of phone, water, electricity and other utility records while pursuing immigration violations, according to public documents uncovered by

• Forged documents add another headache to COVID-19 vaccine rollout. Next month, up to 6 million more Californians with disabilities and underlying health conditions will qualify for inoculations. The state has yet to determine what type of proof they will need. It could include a letter

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• The best law you've never heard of. Americans should feel angry about companies harvesting every morsel of our data to sell us sneakers or rate our creditworthiness. But a data protection law that few of us know about should also give us

• A.I. here, there, everywhere. Many of us already live with artificial intelligence now, but researchers say interactions with the technology will become increasingly personalized.

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• Consumer Action’s ‘Share Financial Data with Care’ project to educate FinTech app users to be ‘security savvy’ (New campaign will provide resources for consumers to control access and safeguard their financial information on financial apps). Consumer Action launches a new project to expand consumer awareness about how financial services applications (“apps”) access, collect, store, use and share customers’ personal information.

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• Child protection nonprofit alleges 'manipulative' upselling with math game. The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, a nonprofit advocacy group, accused a popular math game used in thousands of elementary schools of using “deceptive marketing and manipulative tactics” in a letter of

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• Civil rights groups ask Biden to oppose facial recognition. The American Civil Liberties Union and more than 40 other groups urged President Biden in a letter to freeze federal use of facial recognition and block federal funds from being used by state and local governments

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• Tips on how to master the vaccine-appointment website. Starting this week, there will be even more places you need to look for appointments online. Pharmacy chains including CVS and Walgreens are beginning to distribute vaccine supply they’re getting directly from the

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• El reconocimiento facial puede ayudar a identificar a los alborotadores del Capitolio, pero perjudicaría a muchos otros, según los expertos. En los días posteriores al motín del 6 de enero en el Capitolio de la nación, hubo prisa por identificar a quienes habían atacado los sagrados pasillos del

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• Researchers find more victims of Iran’s hacks. Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the identities of more than 1,000 victims of two hacking groups tied to the Iranian government. The reports shine a new light on the Iranian government’s use of myriad hacking

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• Facial recognition may help find Capitol rioters — and harm others. In the days following the Jan. 6 riot at the nation’s Capitol, there was a rush to identify those who had stormed the building’s hallowed halls.  Instagram accounts with names like

• Coming soon: The ‘vaccine passport’. A vaccination pass or passport is documentation proving that you have been vaccinated against Covid-19. Some versions will also allow people to show that they have tested negative for the virus, and therefore can more

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• Learn if facial recognition systems used your photos. An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.

January

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• Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false.. You go to your iPhone’s App Store to download a game. Under a new “App Privacy” label added last month, there’s a blue check mark, signaling that the app

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• CFPB emerges from Trump storm battered but intact. The federal government is filled with anonymous civil servants who spent the past four years keeping their heads down and doing their jobs while trying to prevent Donald Trump’s appointees from subverting their

• Panel anula decisiones de Facebook de eliminar contenidos. Una junta de supervisión cuasi independiente de Facebook emitió sus primeros fallos el jueves...

• Telegram y el desafío de la extrema derecha. Luego de que Facebook y Twitter extremaron sus medidas contra la desinformación, grandes cantidades de extremistas y teóricos de la conspiración se refugiaron en la aplicación, que

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• Who's making all these scam calls? Hacker, reporter team up to find out.. Every year, tens of millions of Americans collectively lose billions of dollars to scam callers. Where does the other end of the line lead? One hacker infiltrated the computers of scammers, mainly based out of

• Apple aconseja actualizar dispositivos de inmediato. Apple aconsejó el miércoles a los usuarios de iPhone y iPad actualizar sus dispositivos de inmediato para corregir fallas de seguridad que pudieran ser “explotadas activamente” por hackers.