Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid growing public anger that license plate readers are helping US immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is an Atlanta-based startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a manufacturer of license plate … Read more
Whenever I write about Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, I already know the comments I’ll get. Great hardware, but hard to pass on anything the Meta does; will wait for someone else to come. It’s hard to imagine that feeling changing soon after The New York Times stated that Meta considered launching the facial recognition software … Read more
Last year, phone-hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as a customer after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of journalists and activists and spread spyware. This was a rare instance of Cellebrite publicly cutting off a customer after documented allegations … Read more
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellex has hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, in what Amnesty International says is the latest case of targeting someone in civil society using powerful phone-hacking software. A human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several attempted hacking attacks against local journalist … Read more
JAIME SIMINOFF: But when you put AI into it, now all of a sudden you have this human element that AI gives you. I think with our products in the neighborhood and again, you have to be a little bit specific, I see a path where we can really start to reduce crime in the … Read more
When Apple entered the AI race, the company faced a critical challenge: how to deliver powerful AI capabilities while maintaining its long-standing commitment to user privacy. The result is Apple Intelligence, a system designed around a simple but revolutionary premise – your personal data should work for you without you having to control it. In … Read more