Qualcomm’s new always-on smartphone camera is a potential privacy nightmare https://www.theverge.com/22811740/qualcomm-snapdragon-8-gen-1-always-on-camera-privacy-security-concerns
Ukraine arrests 51 for selling data of 300 million people in US, EU https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraine-arrests-51-for-selling-data-of-300-million-people-in-us-eu/
Congress, Far From ‘a Series of Tubes,’ Is Still Nowhere Near Reining In Tech https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/11/business/congress-tech-regulation.html
This Is Not the Privacy Bill You’re Looking For https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/not-privacy-bill-youre-looking
Workers Are Using ‘Mouse Movers’ So They Can Use the Bathroom in Peace https://www.vice.com/en/article/88gqgp/mouse-mover-jiggler-app-keep-screen-on-active
Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/12/toyota-owners-have-to-pay-8-mo-to-keep-using-their-key-fob-for-remote-start/
Biden will sign an executive order to move government services online https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/biden-executiv-order-government-modernize
Apple’s ‘Do Not Track’ Button Is Privacy Theater https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211209/06403948085/increasingly-obvious-apples-do-not-track-button-is-privacy-theater.shtml
Log4Shell Update: Second log4j Vulnerability Published (CVE-2021-44228 + CVE-2021-45046) https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/
Google’s true origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance/
ICO issues provisional view to fine Clearview AI Inc over £17 million https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2021/11/ico-issues-provisional-view-to-fine-clearview-ai-inc-over-17-million/
Deepfake anyone? AI synthetic media tech enters perilous phase https://www.reuters.com/technology/deepfake-anyone-ai-synthetic-media-tech-enters-perilous-phase-2021-12-13/
A South Korean city will test facial recognition as a way to track the virus. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/world/asia/south-korea-facial-recognition-coronavirus.html
US warns hundreds of millions of devices at risk from newly revealed software vulnerability https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/13/politics/us-warning-software-vulnerability/index.html
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