AI: Apple sues OpenAI over theft of intellectual property
This could get very ugly, quickly. Does not look good.
Privacy: NSA – All Your Data Is Belong To Us
NSA secretly buying Americans’ data without a warrant – Washington Times
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
Investigation: How TikTok’s Algorithm Figures Out Your Deepest Desires
Watch the video at the link. A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want: the amount of…
China scans western web sites and social media as part of surveillance network
Including this blog: Hundreds of projects launched since 2020 show that Chinese police, state media and the military are gathering data from sites including Twitter and Facebook to track perceived…
Many Android smart phones are spying on you and your data
Google sends large amounts of obfuscated data from your phone to Google – no one knows what Google is collecting: Study Warns Android Phones From Samsung, Xiaomi And Others Are…
Australia’s Bluetooth-based contact tracing app deemed largely irrelevant
Says they’ve identified a total of … one person: The PM told Australians in April the contact tracing app was key to getting back to normal but just one person…
TSA Air Marshal program puts ordinary travelers under intense scrutiny and monitors their every move
Ordinary people in the U.S. became targets of a bizarre, Orwellian TSA surveillance program.
Our temporary foreign work visas have turned into “spy visas”?
Silicon valley's widespread use of temporary tech workers imported from other countries could be fostering widespread industrial spying for the benefit of foreign adversaries.