UK PM Keir Starmer is preparing to unveil a nationwide digital ID scheme at the Labour Party conference. The plan aims to tighten immigration controls and curb illegal migration by linking ID checks to work and housing. Unlike Tony Blair’s failed 2000s ID card push, officials say today’s digital-first society makes adoption more viable. Supporters […]
The Austrian Federal Administrative Court confirmed that DerStandard’s “Pay or Okay” model breaches the GDPR. Users had to either accept tracking by hundreds of third parties or pay a subscription. Authorities ruled that this coercive model invalidates consent, which must be free and specific. Real consent rates drop to 1–7% when asked transparently, but the […]
Researchers found millions of passports, credit cards, résumés, and faces in DataComp CommonPool, a massive AI training dataset scraped from the web. Auditing just 0.1% revealed hundreds of millions of likely PII (personally identifiable information) items, including sensitive job and health details. Despite face-blurring tools, researchers estimate 102 million faces were missed, and metadata/captions still […]
Everyone is annoyed when coming up with, remembering and entering hard-to-guess passwords as shown in this video. 77.6% of people find passwords difficult to remember, while 89.2% have an easy-to-guess or retrieve password, with 8% of all passwords already leaked. ID Control helps you manage your usernames, passwords and other secrets (e.g. credit card details) […]