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… "Everybody was excited to share; no one was thinking about the implications of all that data being shared," he says. “Everyone told us: Privacy's dead, privacy's dead, privacy's dead.” Privacy may, in fact, be dead—perhaps by refusing to post to their Instagram grids, maybe Gen Z will bring it back. …
… In October, the Justice Department’s own inspector general’s office noted in a report that, “in view of the history of the FBI’s Section 702 compliance issues, we are not able to conclude based on that limited time period that the FBI’s querying compliance issues are entirely in the past.” The curr… …
… Just because you can remove Gemini Nano from Chrome doesn't mean you necessarily should—or that doing so is better for your privacy. …
… Other compliance deadlines within the act have been delayed, as the European AI Office has taken longer than expected to produce key compliance guidelines. …
The Take It Down Act applies broadly to a range of apps and online services, including social media and gaming platforms, according to business guidance published by the Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for enforcing platforms’ compliance with the law. …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… Alpha told WIRED the Miami privacy pods “are monitored by staff and by motion-activated cameras. …
… Perloff argues that the government is using the fact that big tech companies are based in the US to request information it would not otherwise be able to get. “It’s using that geographic fact to get information that otherwise would be totally outside of its jurisdiction,” he says. “I mean, we’re ta… …