Tag: privacy

  • don’t keep PII

    high-value credential – a passport – was used in an ancillary low-value authentication system: ID verification for cannabis dispensaries. And it’s the low-value system that got hacked, putting the high-value credential at risk.” It’s always best to delete whatever you no longer need. 🔗 One Million Passports Leaked Online

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  • 🤖 Bernie Sanders Presses Claude on AI, Privacy, and a Data-Center Moratorium

    Summarized by AI. 2026-04-12 09:40 Bernie vs. Claude Senator Bernie Sanders questions Claude directly about how AI intersects with privacy, profit, and democratic erosion, framing data collection as the hidden engine behind most consumer-facing AI. Claude concedes that companies harvest browsing history, location, purchases, search activity, even pause time on a page, then feed it…

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  • “won’t be available if both the user is physically in the EU and their Apple Account region is in the EU.” www.macrumors.com/2025/09/1…

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  • On the pleasure of reading private notebooks – Diaries (“journals”) and notebooks are the best, I love them as well. // “I think this is because our genuine thoughts (and interests) are more detailed and alive than the simulations we have of what we should say (or be interested in). When we think no one…

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  • Exploited Kidfluencers: Dutch Cabinet wants stricter child labor rules for social media – ”Nobel said that he understands ‘that people enjoy seeing into other people’s lives on social media.’ But he fears that it will be at the expense of the well-being of children if the entire family is exposed. Their psychological well-being and development…

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  • Sensitive Information Disclosure in LLMs: Privacy and Compliance in Generative AI – Sensitive information in, sensitive information out. Also, make sure to have access control to your models.

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  • ChatGPT web traffic falls 10%, analytics show – Indeed. I think I’ve found the limitations. The main one is the limit in the text you can feed it. If I could build up my own training data, that’d be something! The Link Reader plugin solves the summarizing web pages problem that I was having. What…

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  • Link: America is turning against facial-recognition software

    Sometimes scepticism about technology comes from the cops. Earlier this year the Washington Post reported that many small police departments were abandoning body-worn-camera programmes because of the cost. Although the cameras are cheap, officers can generate 15 gigabytes of video per shift; storage costs mount. Police unions often oppose body-worn cameras, fearing they imperil their…

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  • Link: How dating sites spy on you

    “Dating app users provide sensitive information like drug usage habits and sexual preferences in hopes of finding a romantic match…. everything you put on your profile, including drug use and health status. Web trackers can examine your behavior on a page and how you answer key personal questions.” Original source: How dating sites spy on…

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  • Link: GDPR requests to take thousands of hours a month, says survey

    “Large enterprises expect to get an average 246 GDPR enquiries per month, for which they will need to search 43 databases (seven minutes per search). They will spend more than 1,259 hours on this, which equates to nearly 60 hours of searches per working day or 7.5 employees dedicated solely to GDPR enquiries.” It’s a…

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  • Link: Apple bringing medical records to iPhone, Apple Watch

    “It all works when a user opens the iPhone’s health app, navigates to the health record section, and, on the new tool, adds a health provider. From there, the user taps to connect to Apple’s software system and data start streaming into the service. Patients will get notified via an alert if new information becomes…

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  • Link: GDPR compliance – here are the 14 things you actually need to do

    Exciting new audit needs ahead, hoss: “Organisations should review their IT systems and procedures to check they comply with GDPR requirements for privacy by design, ensuring only the minimum amount of personal data necessary is processed. Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) should be completed when using new technologies and the data processing is likely to result…

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