Facebook has told Clearview AI, the controversial face-recognition service that works with law enforcement agencies, to stop using images from its networks.
Facebook has told Clearview AI, the controversial face-recognition service that works with law enforcement agencies around the country, to stop using images from its networks, the company confirmed Wednesday.
AI researcher Janelle Shane has trained bots to generate creepy recipes inspired by midcentury Jell-O mold cuisine.
For today’s readers, 20th-century recipes involving Jell-O molds—where fruit, vegetables, or even seafood is suspended in a mass of gelatin—can be creepy enough. But AI researcher Janelle Shane, known for her AI Weirdness blog, announced on Twitter Friday that she trained a bot to develop new recipes in that style, creating what she says may be “the worst recipe-generating algorithm in existence.”
“In short, this was an organized and remarkably brazen criminal heist of sensitive information of nearly half of all Americans,” a federal indictment read on Monday.
The massive 2017 Equifax data breach, which compromised data on roughly 145 million Americans, was the work of Chinese military hackers, federal prosecutors allege in an indictment released Monday.
Security firm Emsisoft has released a decryption to circumvent a new ransomware variant that’s demanding explicit photos.
Ransomware typically encrypts files and demands payment in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, but security firm Emsisoft reported Wednesday that it had discovered a variant making another sort of demand: explicit photos.
Study Hall, the media workers’ group, is offering $5 microgrants to the creators of memes focused on claims of Bloomberg’s bias.
After Michael Bloomberg paid some of Instagram’s biggest meme creators to run tongue-in-cheek messages highlighting his campaign, the media workers’ group Study Hall found a way to counter the effort. The group is offering payments of its own for memes that are critical of the candidate’s history of alleged bias.
A House subcommittee has asked Amazon to turn over information about its Ring unit’s deals with law enforcement agencies.
A House panel has asked Amazon to turn over information about “Ring’s partnerships with city governments and local police departments, along with the company’s policies governing the data it collects” after reports about the home surveillance camera unit’s deals with law enforcement.
Despite the site’s reputation as a sometimes-toxic rumor mill, Reddit has become an unlikely home for passionate users who aim to call out disinformation as it spreads.
Robert Mercer invested in Cambridge Analytica, the company that became infamous for siphoning off Facebook users’ information to target political ads. The shady data firm worked for the 2016 Trump campaign and Leave.EU, a pro-Brexit group. The Trump campaign also employed Steve Bannon, the right-wing firebrand who also has ties to Mercer and claims Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage as a personal friend.
Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg have both dropped out of the 2020 presidential primary race. Their delegates may ultimately back the candidates they endorse.
Now that Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg have left the race for the 2020 Democratic nomination, what happens to the delegates they’ve won?
Ultrasound, out of the range of human hearing, could let hackers give commands to your devices without you noticing.
Hackers could give voice commands to your devices without you being able to hear them, according to a recent research paper on what scientists dubbed SurfingAttack.
More than 600,000 hackers on the platform are helping find bugs and vulnerabilities.
When Capital One discovered a data breach in July 2019 that exposed credit card and application data of more than 100 million people, the revelation came courtesy of a hacker—a benevolent one. He was working on behalf of HackerOne, a company that connects businesses and government agencies with a network of 600,000 hackers who test systems in exchange for payment and clout. While traditional cybersecurity efforts are centered around building hacker-proof software, CEO Mårten Mickos says vulnerabilities are inevitable: “It’s better to know than not to know.” Last year, the company (which has doled out more than $80 million in rewards to cybersleuths since 2012, about half of that in the past year) introduced HackerOne Clear, a program that vets hackers for sensitive projects and allows companies to require nondisclosure agreements for such work. New clients in 2019 include Alibaba, AT&T, Hyatt, and Priceline, and four out of the top 10 banks in the United States (including Goldman Sachs) are now running hacker-powered security programs on the platform.
Immuta safeguards records for governments, medical facilities, industrial companies, and more.
Big companies often maintain huge troves of customer data, and small mistakes can jeopardize privacy and legal compliance. Immuta builds software to help businesses govern, share, and work with data while adhering to privacy laws, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. “The core value of our platform is to protect the data and then unlock it when employees need it, without having to have everyone meet in the boardroom,” says cofounder and CEO Matthew Carroll.
Vermont has sued Clearview AI, the controversial face recognition company that’s said to have built up a huge database of facial images of everyday people.
Vermont’s attorney general sued Clearview AI in state court on Tuesday, saying the controversial face recognition company’s use of images scraped from the internet violates its consumer protection and data brokerage laws. The state is seeking a court order requiring that Clearview stop collecting photos of state residents and destroy the data and photos of Vermonters it already has on file.
Mine found that its average user is in the databases of 350 businesses, with some people having data held by thousands more.
Companies storing people’s personal data increasingly give consumers the ability to delete their accounts and other information. In fact, it’s often required by new privacy laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.
During the coronavirus outbreak, the Trump campaign is promoting a contest where donors can win a dinner and photo op with the president.
During the coronavirus pandemic, medical experts and officials are promoting what they call “social distancing,” encouraging people to avoid handshakes, large gatherings, and other opportunities for the virus to spread.
Just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t help out in your community.
The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the lives of people around the world. Luckily, there are ways you can help out those who are affected by the outbreak, even if you’re working from home.
Stuck at home amid the pandemic, creative people are finding new ways to use videoconferencing software that once was confined to the home office.
Theatre Unleashed, a Los Angeles-based theater company, was scheduled to hold a reading of a new play this month. But as with other artistic events around the country, hosting the reading in the theater group’s performance space soon proved to be out of the question, thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Sounds posted to the #StayHomeSounds map include birdcalls recorded in Vancouver and Phnom Penh, the sounds of children playing around the world, and communities applauding the sacrifice of healthcare workers.
Around the world, new restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have radically changed daily life.
Cyberinsurers can help providers recover from digital attacks or even make ransom payments to recover lost data.
It’s a nightmare scenario for many executives: Finding out that your company’s computers have been infected with ransomware that’s holding critical data hostage.
Google has released data about changes in visits to different types of locations, such as transit stations, workplaces, and residences, around the world.
Unsurprisingly, people in the United States are spending more time at home, according to a new report from Google that analyzes cellphone location data to see how people’s activities are changing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Airbnb hosts are seeing drastic booking declines amid the pandemic, but housing costs could go down as a result.
While she’s studying for a master’s degree at Northwestern University, Christine Kaya Hewitt and her husband, Jason, have been renting out three of the four bedrooms in their house outside Kansas City through Airbnb.