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New software can verify how much information AI really knows
With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers at the University of Surrey have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI data system has farmed from an organization's digital database.
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Inventor of the world wide web wants us to reclaim our data from tech giants
The internet has come a long way since Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989. Now, in an era of growing concern over privacy, he believes it’s time for us to reclaim our personal data. Through their startup Inrupt, Berners-Lee and CEO John Bruce have created the “Solid Pod” — or Personal Online Data Store.
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How Your Favorite Show on Streaming Can Help Explain Data Durability and Availability
What can your favorite show on streaming teach you about data durability versus data availability? Let's explore how it affects our every day lives.
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Sneaky ways cops could access data to widely prosecute abortions in the US
It's not clear yet what role tech companies will play in helping police access data to prosecute abortions in post-Roe America, but it has already become apparent that law enforcement is willing to be sneaky when seeking data.
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Senior Facebook engineers say no one at the company knows where your data is kept
Two Meta engineers were grilled about the company's data storage systems in court, and the transcript of their answers was recently unsealed.
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Internet history, texts, and location data could all be used as criminal evidence in states where abortion becomes illegal post-Roe, digital rights advocates warn
The Supreme Court on Friday overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that safeguarded access to abortion across the US. The decision Friday promoted renewed fears from digital privacy advocates who fear that online activity will be used against people who seek abortion care or advocate for abortion access in states where it becomes illegal.
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Japanese city worker loses USB containing personal details of every resident
A city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick containing the personal data of almost half a million residents after an alcohol-fuelled night out. Officials in Amagasaki, western Japan, said the man – an unnamed employee of a private contractor hired to oversee Covid-19 relief payments to local households – had taken the flash drive from the city’s offices to transfer the data at a call centre in nearby Osaka.
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'Brutal Battle' Expected as Regulators Close in on Apple Around the World
Experts anticipate a "brutal battle" between Apple and global regulators amid concerns about how the company may "exaggerate" its privacy and security claims for commercial gain and curtail interoperability to keep users locked into a "walled garden."
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Half of Americans accept all cookies despite the security risk
Although cookies have become a normal and necessary part of using the internet, new research from NordVPN has revealed that half of American users 'accept all cookies' on every website they visit. For those unfamiliar, an HTTP cookie or a browser cookie is a piece of data that's stored in your browser whenever you visit a website. With cookies enabled, a website will remember your preferences as well as any small changes you made during your last visit.
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FTC warns VoIP providers: Share your robocall info or get sued
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said today that it will take legal action against Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) service providers who do not hand over information requested during robocall investigations.
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Why Apple wants to peek into your messages and iCloud
Apple recently announced a new suite of features to combat the spread of child sexual abuse material. Everyone agrees that child safety is important and that companies must do more to protect children online. But no technology is ever neutral — not even with the lofty goal of safeguarding children from predators.
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The online data that's being deleted
For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it's become increasingly clear that this won't last forever – and now the race is on to stop our memories being deleted.
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A New Facebook Bug Exposes Millions of Email Addresses
Still smarting from last month's dump of phone numbers belonging to 500 million Facebook users, the social media giant has a new privacy crisis to contend with: a tool that, on a massive scale, links Facebook accounts with their associated email addresses, even when users choose settings to keep them from being public.
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Dark patterns, the tricks websites use to make you say yes, explained
How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
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Science has a new tool in the fight against climate change: good data
Founded in 2008 and given European Research Infrastructure Consortium status by the EU Commission in 2015, the Integrated Carbon Observation Systems (ICOS) is a network of 130 carbon-measuring stations (along with expertise centres and laboratories) set up to measure greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, as well as how carbon fluxes between the atmosphere, Earth and oceans.
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A Private Equity Firm Bought Ancestry, and Its Trove of DNA, for $4.7B
Blackstone, which says it will not have access to people's data, acquired the genealogy and home DNA testing company from a group of other investment firms. The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and its trove of user-submitted DNA from a set of investment firms to another private equity firm.
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Siri grading whistleblower says Apple should face consequences
The Siri grading whistleblower who revealed that private conversations were overheard by contractors working on improving Apple’s intelligent assistant has today revealed his identity.
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The World's Population By Eye Color Percentages
Human eye color is determined by two factors - the pigmentation of the iris and the way the iris scatters the light passing through it. Genes dictate how much melanin will be present in the eye. The more the melanin, the darker the eye. However, it might seem that in some individuals, their eye color tends to change depending on the amount of light present. This is because of the double layer of iris present in the eye.
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Are you ready for America’s data protection laws?
If your company is still grappling with Europe's data protection laws, then watch out. You'll soon have American data protection laws to deal with, too.
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How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
Google has now given us an option to set search and location data to automatically disappear after a certain time. We should all use it.
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