Julia Angwin has an OpEd on the NY Times. She writes, in part: One of the last bastions of privacy are encrypted messaging programs such as Signal and WhatsApp. These apps, which employ a technology called end-to-end encryption, are designed so that even the app makers themselves cannot view their users’ messages. Texting on one of…
Google Photos can recognize people’s faces in photos where there are none
Jay Bonggolto writes: Google has taken Photos’ face recognition skills to the next level, allowing the app to recognize people’s faces in photos even when they are looking completely away from the camera. As pointed out by Android Authority’s Rita El Khoury, Google Photos is able to identify people in photos even when their faces are not visible,…
Inside the Hunt for the Idaho Killer
Mike Baker reports on the sleuthing involved in the murder of four University of Idaho students: The story of how dozens of officers from local, state and federal agencies took the quadruple murder investigation into extraordinary territory is only now becoming more apparent, through recently obtained records and interviews with people familiar with the investigation…
Florida Passes “Digital Bill of Rights”
Jason C. Gavejian and Amanda A. Simpson of Jackson Lewis write: On June 6, 2023, Governor DeSantis signed Senate Bill (SB) 2262, legislation intended to create a “Digital Bill of Rights” for Floridians. While Florida’s new law provides similar privacy rights to consumers as other states’ comprehensive privacy laws passed in recent months, the law is…