Jenny Whilde and Alice Farrell write: Human DNA can be sequenced from small amounts of water, sand and air in the environment to potentially extract identifiable information like genetic lineage, gender, and health risks, according to our new research. […] We also collected air samples from a room in our wildlife veterinary hospital in Florida. People who…
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Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders
Natasha Lomas reports: Clearview AI, the US startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the Internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France over non-cooperation with the…
What does your smart fridge know about you?
Tate Ryan-Mosley writes: …..Take, for example, a Samsung refrigerator. Epifani used data from VTO Labs, a digital forensics lab in the US, to investigate just how much information a smart fridge keeps about its owners. […] What he found was a treasure trove of personal details. Epifani found information about Bluetooth devices near the fridge,…
UK locks horns with WhatsApp over threat to break encryption
On May 2, Annabelle Dickson, Mark Scott, and Tom Bristow reported: Britain’s tough new plan to police the internet has left politicians in a stand-off with WhatsApp and other popular encrypted messaging services. Deescalating that row will be easier said than done. The Online Safety Bill, the United Kingdom’s landmark effort to regulate social media giants,…