Personal Privacy News Roundup - August 2024

Noteworthy Digital and Internet Privacy News From August 2024

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We’re sticking with the new format we introduced a few months back. News and notes are now organized by categories:

1. Secrets of Privacy Posts, both from Substack, LinkedIn and elsewhere

2. AI related privacy news and notes

3. CBDC related privacy news and notes

4. All other digital and internet privacy news and notes

As always, feel free to drop a story in the comments that we overlooked.

Secrets of Privacy Posts

1. Behavioral Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy? (source)

2. We Got Banned by Facebook! (source)

3. Lisa's Secret to Online Privacy Success (source)

4. Safeguarding Your Data: Lessons from a 3 Billion Record Data Breach (source)

5. Digital Privacy is a Game of Probability, Not Perfection (source)

6. Common AI Scams: What You Need to Know (source)

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AI Privacy Related News and Notes

1. Hardware And Software Options for Local AI (source) by

   BowTiedCrocodile

2. Cannibal AIs Could Risk Digital 'Mad Cow Disease' Without Fresh Data (source)

3. OpenAI is developing a tool that can reveal whether text has been created by AI (source)

4. Scammers Using Generative AI in Identity Attacks and Fraud (source)

5. Running AI In Your House (source)

6. Scientists are falling victim to deepfake AI video scams — here’s how to fight back (source)

7. Job scams: How to spot a fake listing in this AI world (source)

8. The AI scams infiltrating the knitting and crochet world - and why it matters for everyone (source)

9. ‘Kafkaesque’: bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam (source)

10. Cryptocurrency scammers using AI deep fake videos of Keir Starmer and Prince William to target victims (source)

    

11. Fighting AI Scams With AI: That's This Startup's Mission (source)

12. Australia took down 600 crypto scams, says AI will make it worse (source)

13. 90% of Americans Worry About Rise in Fraud, 74% Think AI Will Increase Successful Fraud Attempts, Abrigo Survey Finds (source)

14. Tokyo city hopes AI device can protect elderly from scams (source)

15. AI voice generators: What they can do and how they work (source)

16. New Experian Report Reveals Generative AI, Deepfakes and Cybercrime Are the Top Fraud Concerns for Businesses (source)

17. The Dual Role Of AI In Fueling And Fighting Investment Scams (source)

18. Artificial intelligence is powering the latest fraud trends (source)

19. AI deepfake scams are on the rise (source)

20. AI video generator scams people out of thousands of dollars (source)

Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) News and Notes

1. Google Pay, Walmart-backed PhonePe to join India’s CBDC pilot (source)

2. North Carolina House of Representatives overturns governor’s veto of bill banning CBDC (source)

3. Trudeau’s Rival Pledges to Protect Cash Usage, Vows to Ban CBDC in Canada (source)

4. Cambodia’s central bank uses CBDC to stifle dollarization of local economy (source)

5. Indonesia CBDC trial enters second phase (source)

6. CBDC Concerns Ignored as BoE Advances Digital Pound Plans (source)

7. CBDC's success doubtful, UPI already prevalent, says former RBI deputy governor (source)

8. If your country has adopted a CBDC, you might be suffering (source)

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All Other Privacy News and Notes

1. Can LLMs Unlearn? Part 2.5: Where OpenAI Sorta Maybe Deletes My Data (source) by

   Carey Lening

2. Awesome free personal security tool: Canary Tokens. Use them to help you know if you've been hacked! (source) by

   Tate Jarrow

3. The morality of privacy and anonymity (source) by

   Matte

4. 5 Private and Secure Messengers (source) via

   Monique Barrow

5. New Ohio Laws Address Student Data Privacy, Cellphones (source)

6. USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (source)

7. Homeland Security Plans to Scan Migrant Children’s Faces to Train AI: Updated (source)

8. Forget pay to view, pay for privacy is the latest problem for people online (source)

9. This TikTok creator is showing that opting out of TSA face scans isn’t always easy (source)

10. US Court Reimposes “Disinformation” Device Monitoring on January 6 Defendant (source)

    

11. Gaines: Xcel’s smart meter comedy tour not so funny (source)

12. Texas Sues General Motors Over Allegedly Selling Driver Data to Insurance Companies (source)

13. Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. (source)

14. Retail surveillance company Auror faces privacy investigation (source)

15. For News Media, Consumer Data Privacy Shouldn’t Be A Bad Thing (source)

16. How Fabric Cryptography Plans To Become The Nvidia Of Privacy Tech (source)

17. The Crypto Privacy Scene has Changed (source)

18. Thoughts on the Durov arrest (source)

19. Digital Price Tags With Real-Time Updates Proposed by Kroger, Walmart and Others Raise Privacy Concerns (source)

20. Struggling to Unlock Your Phone? You Might Have Lost Your Fingerprints (source)

    

21. Retail surveillance company Auror faces privacy investigation (source)

22. For News Media, Consumer Data Privacy Shouldn’t Be A Bad Thing (source)

23. A woman got tired of her mail getting stolen. She sent herself an Apple AirTag to help catch the thieves (source)

24. Apple’s Huge “Dual Use” Face Swap App Problem Is Not Going Away (source)

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