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…
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Telegram has disclosed criminal data to authorities for years, Durov says
Daryna Antoniuk reports: The founder of the popular messaging app Telegram stated that the recently announced updates to the platform’s terms of service don’t represent a big change in how it interacts with law enforcement, as the company has been disclosing criminal data to authorities for years. “My previous post may have seemed to announce…
FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance is Out of Control
Lena Cohen writes: A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report confirms what EFF has been warning about for years: tech giants are widely harvesting and sharing your personal information to fuel their online behavioral advertising businesses. This four-year investigation into the data practices of nine social media and video platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, and X (formally Twitter),…
Reasonable expectation of privacy in Facebook private messages — Florida Fourth District Court of Appeals
John Wesley Hall writes: (1) Florida’s 4th DCA finds a reasonable expectation of privacy in Facebook private messages as analogous to cell phone text messages. (2) When the records were seized under a warrant for a theft, they couldn’t be searched for evidence of this crime, a shooting. Therefore, the good faith exception is not…