… Ciaran Hale, chief technology officer at another one of the platforms, Deputy, said in a statement that the company’s “third-party relationships are limited to trusted operational and infrastructure providers that support the delivery, security, and reliability of our platform.” Hale added that Dep… …
… Then it makes sure that no pesky state that may want to, you know, actually regulate what companies are doing can get in the way.” Eric Null, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s privacy and data project, warns it “would cement the harmful online data practices that Americans need … …
… Jan Penfrat, a senior policy adviser for European Digital Rights EDRi , a network of NGOs, experts, and advocates campaigning for digital rights across Europe, sees Apple’s latest moves as a means of putting pressure on the EU Commission to allow it to break the DMA. “It’s very much a lobbying tact… …
… Discord has said most users won’t be impacted by its incoming age verification rollout because of its age-guessing AI system. “You don’t need to know who someone is in order to figure out their age, so that’s why, in theory, age inference technologies can be less privacy invasive,” Cobun Zweifel-Ke… …
A years-old bank heist may soon have major privacy implications for every American who owns a cellphone. …
… Instead of creating a separate version of OpenClaw, Microsoft is contributing directly to the core technology of the open-source project. It’s surprising to see Microsoft embrace OpenClaw just months after CEO Satya Nadella compared the technology to a virus. …
… And for some, Apple’s reputation for privacy and security could help mitigate the creepiness factor of agents — Federighi told the WWDC crowd that “privacy in AI is a non-negotiable” and that user data will only be used to process user requests. …
… A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats Key privacy settings and best practices. …
… Plus, Meta believes it would be barred by federal children’s privacy law from retaining the data necessary to classify users under 13 in the state. …
… CEO Tim Cook reportedly called the governor of Texas in an unsuccessful bid to stop him from signing an app store-level age verification rule and visited Capitol Hill to lobby against similar legislation the company has warned could negatively impact user privacy. …