The ACLU test used the Amazon software’s built-in defaults, but Amazon says it tells law enforcement customers to use more stringent settings to limit false positives.
A recent test by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Amazon’s Rekognition image-recognition tool that matched 28 photos of members of Congress to other people’s mugshots has been “misinterpreted,” argues Matt Wood, who manages AI technology within Amazon Web Services, in a blog post on Friday.
DIY gun proponent Cody Wilson promised to fight the multi-state lawsuit: “If we are a named party, we will litigate and defend our rights.”
Washington State’s attorney general will lead a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from permitting the public to download computer files for designing 3D-printed guns, his office said in a statement Monday.
The DNA testing companies say they’ll disclose when they’re asked for information by police and won’t share data without customer consent.
A group of DNA testing companies, including 23AndMe, Ancestry, Habit, Helix, and MyHeritage, released on Tuesday a set of privacy “best practices” developed with the Future of Privacy Forum, Gizmodo reports.
The FCC’s inspector general found no evidence of a DDoS attack and alleged the FCC “misrepresented facts” in response to congressional inquiries.
There’s no evidence that the Federal Communications Commission’s website was deliberately attacked when millions of people sought to post comments about the agency’s then-proposed rollback of net neutrality rules, according to an Inspector General report that alleges the agency misled members of Congress about what happened.
Footage from the scene seems to corroborate claims that two drones were used in an attack very near the scene of a presidential speech.
Video footage appears to support claims that two drones armed with explosives were used in a drone attack on a parade where Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was speaking in Caracas Saturday, says analyst Nick Waters in a blog post for Bellingcat.
Researchers say a blockchain-like system could help track government requests for private data without endangering the secrecy of investigations.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have proposed a cryptographically powered system they say could help the public track court orders that let law enforcement access people’s digital data without disclosing too much information.
AnchorFree’s Hotspot Shield has seen bursts of downloads after privacy concerns and global free-speech crackdowns, though the company has had to answer a few privacy questions of its own.
Thanks to growing fears about surveillance by governments and internet providers, and because of restrictions on online media by authoritarian regimes around the world, more internet users are turning to virtual private networks to keep their online activities private.
IBM and Threatcare researchers say these bugs have been patched, but similar vulnerabilities could let hackers induce panic or cover up sabotage by tampering with sensors.
Researchers at IBM and Threatcare have found vulnerabilities in “smart city” devices, which are used for everything from traffic monitoring to radiation detection, the companies said Thursday.
Uber’s Microsoft-powered Real Time ID Check has locked out some drivers, signaling future struggles as facial-recognition technology becomes more prevalent.
An Iowa Uber driver who is transgender was required to travel two hours to a local Uber office after a facial-recognition security feature was unable to confirm her identity, CNBC reports. Uber says such issues can often be resolved with a simple phone call, but for Janey Webb, the driver in question, the issue meant she missed out on about three days of work, including a potentially lucrative July 4.
Congress still needs to sign off on any plans for the Space Force, and the branch could take years to establish.
Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the Pentagon today about the Trump administration’s controversial plan to establish a Space Force as a new branch of the military, on par with the Air Force and the Marine Corps. But support for the plan in Congress and the military establishment has been far from unanimous.
Trustwave says its tool to search social networks by name and face can aid security penetration tests, but it might lead to privacy violations.
Cybersecurity firm Trustwave has released an open source tool to find accounts of large volumes of people across social media platforms by automatically matching names and profile pictures.
Experts successfully took over digital voting machines, some of which are still in use, using a variety of vulnerabilities that allowed them to explore files on the machines, hijack them to play music, and in some cases change votes.
As hackers at the Defcon security conference this weekend successfully probed voting equipment for security holes at the second annual Defcon Voting Village, officials downplayed the risks to actual elections.
If hackers can convince your phone company to turn over your number to them, they can defeat two-factor authentication that relies on text messaging.
Crypto investor Michael Terpin filed a $224 million lawsuit against AT&T in California federal court Wednesday alleging that the phone company’s negligence let hackers steal nearly $24 million in cryptocurrency from him, Reuters reports. He’s also seeking punitive damages.
Recorded Future, which recently made news for spotting military docs on the Dark Web, talks about how it scours hacker forums to hunt for threats.
On a recent morning, Andrei Barysevich, director of advanced collection at cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, used a VPN and Tor connection to connect to an underground hacking forum.
The former Trump campaign chairman is alleged to have received payments through shelf companies in Cyprus with names like Leviathan Ltd. and Peranova Ltd.
As the jurors in former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s bank and tax fraud trial deliberated Thursday, they asked the judge to answer four questions. Among them: the definition of “shelf company,” a term that arose in relation to allegations that Manafort hid payments he received from Ukrainian political operations.
Charging documents and other court records refer to Signal and WhatsApp data from Cohen’s devices.
Within the detailed federal allegations against former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty yesterday to eight charges including campaign finance violations, are multiple references to texts sent by Cohen and even a call made “through an encrypted telephone application.”
Iran-linked social media accounts used names like Berniecrats and The British Left to promote a mix of Western progressive memes and pro-Iran and pro-Palestine messages.
While Russia created bogus social media accounts to sow distrust in the American political system, at times promoting conflicting protests at the same time and place, newly revealed accounts linked to Iran appear to have focused on promoting that country’s interests abroad, especially to Western liberals.
The program was quickly mocked for its eerily similar Twitter accounts, which some initially believed were run by bots.
Amazon employees identified as “fulfillment center ambassadors” took to Twitter this week to praise the company, drawing mostly derision from other users of the social media platform. Responses predictably criticized the company’s labor practices, which have come under fire in recent years, and wondered whether the accounts were automated.
Smarter sets could mean more niche programming and fewer annoying ads, says the TV industry. Privacy advocates worry consumers are being kept in the dark.
Digital advertisers have it relatively easy. On the web, they know they can send you ads based on the products you’ve browsed, the searches you’ve made online, and the places you’ve been in the real world. And they know they’ll get precise data about which of those ads turn into site visits and purchases.
Amazon and Senator Bernie Sanders each released statements Wednesday regarding the company’s warehouse working conditions and pay.
Amazon accused Senator Bernie Sanders, the liberal independent from Vermont, of leveling “inaccurate and misleading accusations” about warehouse pay and working conditions in a statement released Wednesday.