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Boston has ended its relationship with license-plate recognition startup Flock Safety after a vendor setting improperly shared city surveillance data across a nationwide police database in violation of contract terms.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress potentially has a role to play in drafting legislative guardrails for artificial intelligence, announcing plans to meet with leading industry executives.
LG Electronics has publicly denied claims that its smart televisions continuously listen to and record user conversations, responding to a technical investigation by Gamers Nexus and cybersecurity researchers.
A new academic review warns that current legal and regulatory protections are failing to keep pace with the vast amounts of personal data collected and analyzed through social media activity.
A federal judge in California has thrown out two class-action privacy lawsuits targeting LinkedIn's practices of detecting browser extensions, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to prove any actual data violations.
Apple's Apple Watch Series 12 introduces Audio Intelligence capabilities that capture and summarize conversations, raising legal questions around all-party consent laws.
An attacker who extracted approximately 4,000 BTC from Blockstream's Liquid Network federation wallet has returned 3,400 BTC after developers patched vulnerable bridge nodes across the sidechain network.
Financial disclosures from General Motors and Honda show the Apple CarPlay-equipped Honda Prologue significantly outperforming the Chevy Blazer EV following GM's decision to drop smartphone mirroring.
Quad9 has transferred its corporate domicile to Switzerland, putting its open DNS resolution platform under Swiss data privacy laws while providing free malware and phishing protection globally.
Florida's Department of Transportation has banned law enforcement agencies from operating automatic license plate readers on state roads, marking a major regulatory blow to surveillance vendors like Flock Safety.
Sen. Ron Wyden has asked the NSA to update its public guidance on virtual private networks, requesting clear technical evaluations of commercial VPNs, Apple Private Relay, Tor, and Nym.
Utah regulators have agreed to temporarily hold off on enforcing SB 73, a groundbreaking law that targets VPN usage to bypass online age verification, while a federal judge considers a challenge from Aylo.
TikTok has canceled its appearance at an upcoming House Select Committee on China roundtable, with lawmakers stating the company cited concerns over potential child safety questioning following Meta's recent state settlement.
Federal authorities are investigating an ongoing data breach involving dark web service Nexus, which listed over 153 million identity card scans harvested via third-party verification systems.
A newly launched dark web database called Nexus claims to hold more than 150 million driver's licenses and passports from residents in the U.S. and Canada, with security researchers pointing to Louisiana-based IDScan as the compromised source.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to award up to $5 million to a private vendor to create a national voter database for data segmentation and fraud detection.
Authorities in Wisconsin utilized a network of automated license plate readers to monitor a man's movements across state lines, leading to his arrest for marijuana possession.
Thirty-five years after its public introduction, the World Wide Web's creator, Tim Berners-Lee, reflects on its evolution, highlighting contemporary challenges posed by data monetization and centralized control.
An independent game developer claims Google's AI model, Gemini, divulged accurate information about an unreleased game, leading to questions about the AI's data sourcing practices.
Advanced AI tools for voice dictation are transforming how professionals, including software developers and writers, interact with their computers, offering increased speed and accessibility.
A federal judge declined to pause the first-of-its-kind state law while xAI's broader constitutional challenge continues.
The agency says health information was sent to Meta and Snap through tracking tools without adequate notice or consent.
