Nadine El-Bawab reports: A Texas judge granted a temporary injunction on Texas’ multiple abortion bans on Friday, allowing abortions in cases of medical emergencies and fatal fetal diagnoses while litigation continues in an ongoing lawsuit filed by women alleging Texas’ bans put their lives in danger. The judge also denied the state’s request to throw out…
Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology
Mirna Alsharif, Cristian Santana, and Dennis Romero report: A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents. Porcha Woodruff, 32, was getting her two children ready for school on the morning of Feb….
India’s Lower House of Parliament Approves Data Privacy Bill
Sankalp Phartiyal reports: India’s lower house of parliament Monday approved a privacy bill that seeks to ease data storage, processing and transfer norms for BigTech companies as well as Indian firms seeking growth abroad. The proposed legislation, which has been years in the making, allows companies to export data to any country except those New…
New acoustic attack steals data from keystrokes with 95% accuracy
You’re on a call with someone and they can hear you keyboarding. Can they wind up figuring out what you typed or stealing any passwords you typed in while on the call? Bill Toulas reports: A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes…