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Your location or browsing habits could lead to price increases when buying online

Malwarebytes

The name for this method is surveillance pricing, and the FTC has just released initial findings of a report looking into that practice. In July 2024, the FTC requested information from eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers characteristics and behavior.

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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The Need for Trustworthy AI

Schneier on Security

It doesn’t take much extrapolation from today’s technologies to envision AIs that will plan trips for you, negotiate on your behalf or act as therapists and life coaches. This is surveillance capitalism , and AI is shaping up to be part of it. Phone apps collect and sell your data. Is your AI agent secretly a double agent?

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

This week civil liberties groups in Europe won the right to challenge the UK’s bulk surveillance activities in the The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance. Ubiquitous surveillance. Along with this comes the rising potential for abuse of the technology.

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Google will pay $29.5M to settle two lawsuits over its location tracking practices

Security Affairs

Given the vast level of tracking and surveillance that technology companies can embed into their widely used products, it is only fair that consumers be informed of how important user data, including information about their every move, is gathered, tracked, and utilized by these companies. The IT giant will pay $9.5

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Cybersecurity & Artificial Intelligence (AI) – a view from the EU Rear Window, Part II

McAfee

The goal of the Parliament is to facilitate the development of AI technologies by implementing a single European market for AI and removing barriers to the deployment of AI, including through the principle of mutual recognition with regards to the cross-border use of smart products. A Legal Framework for AI.

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New IoT Security Regulations

Schneier on Security

Due to ever-evolving technological advances, manufacturers are connecting consumer goods­ -- from toys to lightbulbs to major appliances­ -- to the internet at breakneck speeds. The Internet of Things fuses products with communications technology to make daily life more effortless.

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