Personal Privacy News Roundup
Noteworthy Personal Privacy News From March 2024
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We’re still receiving positive feedback on our roundup of monthly personal privacy news. So we’re gonna keep it going. These stories from March 2024, and primarily intended to serve as case studies to help you prepare against current and future privacy threats. A growing theme is AI related privacy risks.
Feel free to drop in the comments any stories we overlooked.
TurboTax wants to use your tax return to show you ads. You can say no. (source)
Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another(source)
The job applicants shut out by AI: ‘The interviewer sounded like Siri’ (source)
Vending machines had eyes all over this Ontario campus — until the students wised up (source)
What the Gemini saga tells us about AI development (source)
Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates (source)
Airbnb Bans All Indoor Security Cameras, Effective From April 30 (source)
Google Is Getting Thousands of Deepfake Porn Complaints (source)
Blockchain-focused cryptography startup Zama raises $73M to protect data in use (source)
French startup Nijta hopes to protect voice privacy in AI use cases (source)
Your Connected Car Could Reveal Risky Driving Behavior to Insurance Companies: Report (source)
CEO of Data Privacy Company Onerep.com Founded Dozens of People-Search Firms (source)
How and Why to Remove Your Personal Information from Google & Data Broker Sites (Part 1)
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Professionals, business owners and other HNWI need to be aware of the presence and potential risks associated with data broker and people search sites. These platforms, often operating in the shadows of the internet, collect, aggregate, and sell personal information, raising concerns about privacy and security.
Hackers can read private AI-assistant chats even though they’re encrypted (source)
How software giant Workday is driving state legislation to regulate AI (source)
Here's why Twitter sends you to a different site than what you clicked (source)
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies (source)
"Unpatchable" vulnerability found in Apple's silicon chips (source)
Uncle Sam wants to know how big airlines use passenger data (source)
GM stops sharing driver data with brokers amid backlash (source)
Courts Demand Info About People Who Viewed Specific YouTube Videos (source)
The Not-so-True People-Search Network from China (source)
Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal (source)
HSBC to Launch Tokenized Gold (source)
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs (source)
OpenAI’s voice cloning AI model only needs a 15-second sample to work (source)
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