… To reclaim their privacy, owners must not only be aware that this surveillance exists but also navigate what some may find to be complex menus to manually disable it. This technology is known as Automatic Content Recognition, or ACR. …
… In fact, the specific manner in which SSDs function electrical pulses across NAND flash, I/O throughput, etc can be measured in a new contention side channel attack dubbed FROST by researchers from the Graz University of Technology in Austria. …
… The company opted to take this route to put customers, who have certain privacy expectations, at ease when using its AI offerings. It will be interesting to see how it manages to thread the privacy needle now that Google’s infrastructure is part of the mix. …