Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
… Privacy is paramount. For Slate, privacy is not a compliance footnote. …
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Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
… However, 15 privacy and consumer protection advocates—including Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the National Consumers League—co-signed a letter this week refuting all of X’s arguments. …
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants
… In a statement, he celebrated the ruling for clarifying that “the Fourth Amendment fully protects people’s rights to privacy from government intrusion.” “We are encouraged to see the Court recognize that privacy interests persist regardless of the technology involved, and that law enforcement must … …
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
… Google is framing this not as a manifestation of its anticompetitive bent, but as genuine concern for user privacy. Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of security engineering, told Wired that the EU’s proposals could lead to serious security and privacy issues. …
Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
… Another insisted that X can’t be trusted to handle user privacy, writing that “without the standards set by the FTC, Twitter could roll back their privacy measures for the sake of cost cutting without any consequence.” Others agreed Musk’s track record didn’t seem great, with one noting that his ef… …
Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says
… He proposes a nationwide class of all people in the US whose faces were scanned and a subclass for Virginia residents. “Familiar Faces uses facial recognition technology to scan the face of all guests and passersby before categorizing who they are using artificial intelligence,” the lawsuit said. “… …
Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
… But the company is still making the same privacy promises it did before, when all of its AI models were either running locally on your devices or on Apple-controlled server hardware. For years, Apple has touted user privacy as a key benefit of using its platforms. …
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
… However, “this makes no sense,” news plaintiffs argued, considering OpenAI’s very public fight to supposedly defend ChatGPT user privacy by blocking access to any logs beyond the 20 million sample . “Either OpenAI unintentionally produced the dataset and it was so hidden in the training inspection … …
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
… They can inspect code, summarize secrets by accident, run commands, install packages, edit files, and push commits on your local machine.” Although most users were likely not impacted by the tracking, Thereallo warned that the “correct reaction” is more scrutiny of Claude’s potential for user surve… …
Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
… The Guardian’s reporting also confirmed that four federal sites built by NDS—ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov, and trumpaccounts.gov—run “commercial visitor-tracking software” that’s “configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install.” None of those sites “carry the public filings… …