Privacy professionals

Privacy professionals

Anna Downes felt ignored by her local police and treated as a nuisance after being cyberflashed by Ben Gunnery. After reporting the incidents, she received explicit images and felt horrified and violated.

The incident's fallout has generated conversations about business ethics, corporate accountability, and the repercussions that conflicts of interest among leadership can cause. But there are also broader implications at play in our increasingly online world.

The government signed a memorandum of understanding with OpenAI, prompting calls for clarity on public data access and transparency regarding the use of AI in the public sector.

The risks are practically endless. Enterprises are investing billions in generative AI initiatives while ignoring doubts about future legal exposures. Major model makers provide no visibility into their training data.

"A thing that terrifies me is apparently there are still some financial institutions that will accept a voice print as authentication for you to move a lot of money or do something else."

Delta's current and planned individualized pricing practices not only present data privacy concerns, but will also likely mean fare price increases up to each individual consumer's personal 'pain point' at a time when American families are already struggling with rising costs.

DuckDuckGo announced a new feature that allows users to hide AI-generated images by default, enhancing the image search experience for reference and copyright-free material.

Video surveillance significantly enhances street safety. When people see that investments are being made in security, they become more alert to their surroundings and more conscientious about following rules.

Pew reports that searches without an AI answer resulted in a click rate of 15 percent. On SERPs with AI Overviews, the rate of clicks to other sites drops by almost half, to 8 percent.

Unexpected contact over messaging apps often indicates potential scams. Fraudsters can present convincing personas, using familiar connections and multimedia to earn credibility.

The rise of privacy and data regulations, particularly with the GDPR and CCPA, mandates marketers to ensure compliance to avoid fines and damage to reputation.

Germany values personal freedom and privacy, especially in the workplace, allowing employees to engage in office romances without interference, provided they do not disrupt work.

This new plague of revenge porn is ruining lives and there is currently little legal recourse. California just passed a law making posting such material a misdemeanor.

Google's decision to retire ClaimReview, a program that highlighted fact-checks from reputable sources globally, has raised concerns about the quality and integrity of search results.

Singapore is responding to a major cyberattack on its critical infrastructure caused by an espionage group linked to China, described by security experts as serious and ongoing.

Photographers can find AI images offensive, which is hardly surprising, given that fake but hyper-realistic photos are only made possible by taking high-quality, copyrighted pictures - without permission - and feeding them to an algorithm.

"This was a stealth miner, designed to avoid detection by staying below the radar of both users and security tools," security researcher Himanshu Anand said.

After months of discussions with a Zuckerberg representative, Ako was successfully able to gain access to the property and identify and register the graves with the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, though he was not able to locate remains of other ancestors, who he believes could be buried on the property.

Google has begun rolling out AI-generated summaries in Discover, replacing headlines with a carousel of publisher logos and AI-generated story briefs, raising concerns among publishers.