January 22, 2018

California to make it harder for your license plate to be tracked

In other words keep data-collecting, privacy-invading license plate cameras away from our cars.

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September 11, 2017

Concerns raised over claim that neural networks can detect sexuality

Researchers - whose previous work has sparked concern - scraped photos without seeking consent from dating sites

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July 17, 2017

Alexa is listening to what you say – and might share that with developers

How do you feel about the possibility of your recorded requests to Alexa being shared with third-party developers? Here's what we know about that - and some tips to manage your data

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July 04, 2017

Health trust rapped on illegal use of patient data in Google AI deal

A deal between a healthcare trust and Google's DeepMind project to be much smarter about diagnosis and prevention could have been a good thing - so what went wrong?

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June 02, 2017

Thousands of enterprise apps exposing data on back-end servers

With so much data apparently exposed via back-end servers, we shouldn't be surprised if there's a new wave of thefts and extortion attempts

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May 10, 2017

Minority Report in Chicago as police aim to stop crime before it happens

As gun crime in Chicago reaches record levels, police claim that it's having an impact on crime prevention, but civil rights campaigners are less convinced

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December 14, 2016

New York exhibition puts us – and our data – on display

The Glass Room looks like a gleaming, all-white Apple store, but they're not selling anything - they're showing us how our data is used

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November 29, 2016

News in brief: Muni hacker is hacked; Facebook warned over data sharing; spy agency releases data tool

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

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November 29, 2016

When are you going to die? Ubisoft tool uses Facebook data to tell you

My expiration date: 84; 95 if I correct a whole lot of inaccuracies that I assume are what insurance companies are able to find on Facebook.

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