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Terrifying new app shows how Meta smart glasses can help you identify a stranger on the street — and find their home address
This pernicious program is every stalker’s dream. Two Harvard students developed a program for Ray-Ban’s Meta smart glasses that can…
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Snapchat can put users’ AI images of faces in ‘My Selfie’ ads
Snapchat reserves the right to put photos of its users’ faces in ads as part of the terms of service…
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TikTok violated children’s privacy, allowed them to create accounts: DOJ suit
The Biden administration fired another shot across the bow at TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent ByteDance. The popular video sharing…
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Facebook parent Meta to pay $1.4B to settle Texas facial recognition lawsuit
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology…
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Google faces Italy probe over ‘misleading’ pursuit of user data
Google faces an antitrust probe in Italy over potential “misleading and aggressive” commercial practices – the latest in an escalating…
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TikTok could face lawsuit by DOJ over potential child privacy violations
The Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it had referred a complaint against the social media platform TikTok and its…
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Microsoft ships new laptops without including controversial new AI feature — for now
New laptops equipped with Microsoft Windows start shipping to customers next week without a flagship feature called Recall that drew…
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Google privacy chief Keith Enright to exit, won’t be replaced
Google’s longtime chief privacy officer will leave the company this fall and won’t be replaced — even as the Big…
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Google collected children’s voices, license plates: report
A trove of leaked internal documents shows that Google collected children’s voice data, and recorded license plate numbers and car…
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Keeping your data hidden from Apple is ‘virtually impossible,’ experts warn
If you think you’re protecting your data, think again. Experts have warned that keeping your data hidden from Apple is…
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