Over on Simple Justice, Scott Greenfield writes: Remember reading Google’s terms of service? Neither does anyone else, because nobody does. We all click on the “yes” link that we’ve read and agreed to it because otherwise we can’t do whatever it is we were trying do when the TOS link popped up, and it’s not…
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Without Knowledge or Consent
Iconic Gun-Makers Gave Sensitive Customer Information to Political Operatives — ProPublica by Corey G. Johnson ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally published at ProPublica. For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information…
Facial Recognition That Tracks Suspicious Friendliness Is Coming to a Store Near You
Todd Feathers reports: A brand new way of being surveilled could be coming to a store near you—a facial recognition system designed to detect when retail workers have anomalous interactions with customers. About a month ago, Israel-based Corsight AI began offering its global clients access to a new service aimed at rooting out what the…
Russian TV channels’ financial demands to Google reach ₽2 undecillion
RBC reports that a Russian court has fined Google …. a helluva lot of money (2 undecillion rubles, which converts to US$20.5 decillion). But do the plaintiffs have any chance of actually collecting it? The total amount of claims from 17 Russian TV channels to Google has reached 2 undecillion rubles, a source familiar with…