Personal Privacy News Roundup - May 2024
Noteworthy Personal Privacy News From May 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 are from May 2024, and intended to serve as case studies to help you prepare against current and future privacy threats.
Feel free to drop in the comments any stories we overlooked.
Privacy in the Age of Panopticoins (source) via
How to escape Honda’s privacy hell (source)
Apple’s iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse. Here’s What You Should Know (source)
Third-party providers a customer data ‘weak spot’, Australian privacy commissioner says (source)
Tornado Cash: Co-Founder Roman Storm Prepares For Legal Battle, Mobilizes The PriFi Community (source) via
Met Police officers accessed controversial facial recognition site 2,000 times (source)
Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking (source)
FBI Warns Hackers’ Use of AI Is Growing. So Is the Bureau’s (source)
Lawmakers deliberate bill that would give young Vermonters confidential access to library materials (source)
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (source)
Why you should think twice before posting that cute photo of your kid online (source)
Interview Of The Week: Meredith Whittaker, AI Ethics Expert (source)
OpenAI's ChatGPT might soon be thanking you for gold and asking if the narwhal bacons at midnight like a cringey Redditor after the two companies reach a deal (source)
Hands-on with Google's Project Astra, the AI that knows where you left your keys (source)
Breaking Free of the Gatekeepers of Western Search (source)
An attorney says she saw her library reading habits reflected in mobile ads. That's not supposed to happen (source)
The dark side of virtual try-on tools: Safeguarding biometric data (source)
Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reforms (source)
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Apple has submitted a patent application that raises some serious privacy and ethical concerns. (source)
PolitiFi: Crypto's Final Battle (source) via
Google’s call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn (source)
Wyden, colleagues urge feds to crack down on tax preparation giants’ ongoing violations of taxpayer privacy (source)
Mind your clicks — AI is watching (source)
Data Collection for AI Today… Surveillance Tomorrow? (source)
Workplace platform Slack clarifies data policy on AI after online criticism (source)
Brazil’s CBDC Pilot Reportedly Delayed to 2025 Due to Lack of Privacy Safeguards: Details (source)
The Future of AI Is Decentralized (source)
Google boosts privacy protections for children on search and YouTube (source)
Banks could lose $40 billion from fraud with the help of AI, Deloitte predicts (source)
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