Jonathan Chadwick reports: Ever since Meta debuted its smart glasses back in 2021, concerns have been raised over their ability to film people without their knowledge. Now, two Harvard students have taken the device’s privacy-invading capabilities even further – by building a modified version called ‘I-XRAY’. The creepy system uses AI and facial recognition software to instantly dox people’s…
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Founder And Former Ceo Of Artificial Intelligence Start-Up Skael Charged With Securities Fraud And Wire Fraud
Defendant Allegedly Raised Over $40 Million While Misrepresenting Financial and Sales Information SAN FRANCISCO – A federal grand jury indicted Baba Nadimpalli, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of SKAEL, Inc. (SKAEL), with securities and wire fraud for defrauding investors and misleading them about the company’s revenue, annual recurring revenue (ARR), and other financial…
LinkedIn is training AI models on your data
Wes Davis reports: If you’re on LinkedIn, then you should know that the social network has, without asking, opted accounts into training generative AI models. 404Media reports that LinkedIn introduced the new privacy setting and opt-out form before rolling out an updated privacy policy saying that data from the platform is being used to train AI models. As TechCrunch notes,…
Google hit with European privacy probe over its AI system
Clothilde Goujard reports: The Irish privacy watchdog opened an investigation Thursday into one of Google’s artificial intelligence systems, marking a new step in European regulators’ escalating fight with tech firms over the development of new technology. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Google may not have evaluated how and if its gathering of Europeans’ personal…