Privacy Security Surveillance

Does security Ring a bell?

Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which will require the company to pay $5.8 million over its inability to keep private footage and audio collected from users’ homes. This action stems from a collection of privacy violations that occurred between 2017 and 2020. Ring customers brought […]

AI Ethics Uncategorized Privacy Risk management

EU AI Act to address the potentially harmful effects of artificial intelligence

The European Parliament has passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which aims to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and its riskiest uses.The draft law would impose new restrictions on facial recognition software and require AI system developers to disclose more about the data used in their programs. The European Union has been debating […]

GDPR Privacy

650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You

The Markup analyzed a database of 650,000 audience segments used by advertisers to target consumers based on specific information and inferences.The segments include sensitive information like being “heavy purchasers” of pregnancy test kits, having an interest in brain tumors, being prone to depression, visiting places of worship, and feeling “easily deflated” or getting a “raw […]

Ethics GDPR

Bank fined 300,000 euros for automatic rejection credit card application

A Berlin-based bank has been fined 300,000 euros by the Berlin data protection commissioner. The fine was imposed due to the bank’s lack of transparency regarding the automated rejection of a credit card application.The bank’s algorithm rejected the customer’s application without providing specific justification. The bank only provided general information about the scoring procedure but […]

AI Cybersecurity Privacy

Risks of Large Language Models such as ChatGPT

Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have gained immense popularity and are being rapidly deployed by various organizations.LLMs are trained on large amounts of text-based data and use deep learning to generate human-like text. While LLMs have impressive capabilities, they are not perfect and can make mistakes, hallucinate incorrect facts, and exhibit biases. Concerns […]

Data Sharing Data Subjects Privacy

NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent

An investigation by The Observer reveals that 20 NHS trusts in the UK have been sharing private details of patients’ medical conditions, appointments, and treatments with Facebook without consent. A covert tracking tool called Meta Pixel was found on the websites of these NHS trusts, collecting browsing information and sharing it with Facebook, in violation […]

Data Breaches

Safety Complaints of Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving and assistance feature in huge leak

German newspaper Handelsbatt received 100GB of data from informants at Tesla. The data contains information on thousands of complaints regarding Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving feature. The collection of data includes 23,000 internal files from 2015 to 2022. Complaints detail issues with self-acceleration, brake function, involuntary emergency braking, and phantom stops.More than 1,000 crash reports are included […]