Privacy

Cameras, sensors and AI systems are increasingly being embedded into ordinary objects that people carry, wear and interact with every day. The challenge facing UK lawmakers is therefore much broader than regulating a single category of product. It is about determining how existing principles of transparency, fairness and accountability apply in a world where data collection is becoming constant, ambient and increasingly difficult to detect. Smart glasses may be today’s headline technology but they may generate a glut of “smart wearables”, from jewelry to items of clothing. What remains constan

Claude users risk having shared conversations become publicly discoverable, including sensitive content such as legal strategies, technical troubleshooting, and personal or sexually provocative chats, if share links are indexed. The article notes some shared links lacked "noindex" tags and were surfaced by Google, and that even pages with "noindex" remain reachable if someone knows the specific URL. Although many exposed links were later removed from Google Search, the incident underscores that creating and sharing conversation links can lead to privacy violations. Answered

Max Miller for Engadget With all this talk of targeted advertising, some argue that privacy advocates are tilting at windmills. After all, they ask, what's so bad about more relevant ads? If I have to see ads online regardless, isn't it better for them to show me things I might actually want? While that's an understandable line of thought, the dangers are more to do with what happens when your data is combined from multiple sources and used in combination with data from billions of other people. These knock-on effects extend beyond any individual. Targeted ads aren't about helpfully homing in

Putting the privacy concerns on the back burner for a moment, the technology does have legitimate law-enforcement uses.