Meta Removes Muse Image Instagram Feature After Consent Backlash
Meta’s newest AI image feature barely made it through the week. Days after launching Muse Image, Meta scrapped a feature...
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New York Bans Smart Glasses Across 1,240 Courts
Smart glasses can go almost anywhere, but New York courts are drawing the line at the courthouse door. Starting July...
AI Surveillance and Social Progress
AI Surveillance and Social Progress In the near future, AI-powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do...
Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Exposes Age Verification Gap
Australia’s under-16 social media ban has a loophole: the honor system. A Reuters-reported study found that major platforms did not...
Google Search Uploads Can Train AI Unless You Opt Out
A quick Google Lens search or voice query may now come with a bigger privacy tradeoff. Google has updated its...
Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates
Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates This is from a 2024 company presentation: Officers can also tap into...
Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising Papa Johns is spying on people’s buying activities to predict when they are low on food:...
Meta Adds WhatsApp Usernames: Here’s What You Need to Know
WhatsApp is finally cutting one of the biggest privacy trade-offs baked into its messaging app: having to hand over your...
The Realities of AI Video Surveillance
The Realities of AI Video Surveillance The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities...
Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military
Meta Is Testing Facial Recognition for Police and Military We know that ICE wants to deploy eyeglasses with facial recognition...
OTC Glucose Monitors Make Wellness Tracking More Personal — and More Complicated
A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) on your arm can now act more like a wearable: app-connected, data-rich, and marketed as...
Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance AI Roadmap Puts Jio CallAgent Inside the Network
Reliance Industries wants AI to start where hundreds of millions of Jio users already spend time: on the phone call....
Professional Athletes and Wearables
Professional Athletes and Wearables I haven’t thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables. Wearables present serious privacy...
Android 17 Is Live on Pixel, but Samsung and Other Android Users Still Have to Wait
Android 17 is now rolling out to supported Pixel devices, but Samsung, Xiaomi, OPPO, OnePlus, Motorola, and other Android users...
