Senate proposes surveillance bill without FBI warrant requirement https://therecord.media/senate-section-702-reauthorization-no-fbi-warrant-requirement
Police across UK equipped with live facial recognition bodycams https://inews.co.uk/news/police-uk-live-facial-recognition-bodycams-2775720
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family https://www.404media.co/plex-users-fear-discover-together-week-in-review-feature-will-leak-porn-habits-to-their-friends-and-family/
At Meta, millions of underage users were an ‘open secret,’ show court filing https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/at-meta-millions-of-underage-users-were-an-open-secret-show-court-filing/articleshow/105506139.cms
In Africa’s first ‘safe city,’ surveillance reigns https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/africa-surveillance-china-magnum/
The Feds’ Vehicle ‘Kill Switch’ Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy https://fee.org/articles/the-feds-vehicle-kill-switch-mandate-is-a-gross-and-dangerous-violation-of-privacy/
Third-party data breach affecting Canadian government could involve data from 1999 https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/21/thirdparty_data_breach_at_canadian/
California can share gun owners’ personal information with researchers, appeals court rules https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2023-11-21/california-can-share-gun-owners-personal-information-with-researchers-appeals-court-rules
OpenAI ‘was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff’ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/23/openai-was-working-on-advanced-model-so-powerful-it-alarmed-staff
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers’ Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama https://www.404media.co/ceo-reminds-everyone-eightsleep-pod-collects-sleep-data-to-make-zeitgeisty-point-about-openai-drama/
US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans’ phone records – ‘usually’ without a warrant https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/wyden_hemisphere_letter/
Sunbird is shutting down its iMessage app for Android https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970740/sunbird-imessage-app-shut-down-privacy-nothing-chats-phone-2
FBI Director Admits Agency Rarely Has Probable Cause When It Performs Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/