New report suggests almost half of children believe online safety act checks to be easy to bypass
… Asking for ID not only feels like an overstep of their privacy to many, but it also risks your data getting accessed by bad actors. …
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Almost every Discord voice and video call now enjoys end-to-end encryption
… You may remember that the embattled social platform experienced a lot of pushback over proposed age verification measures, particularly after the potential exposure of 70,000 users' personal data in a data breach last year . …
Microsoft fires head of Israeli subsidiary and other managers over surveillance of Palestinians
… The Azure servers used by the Israeli government to store surveillance data were based in Europe, potentially putting Microsoft at risk from scrutiny by EU regulators. …
Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more tell the UK: stop making the web worse
… "As the UK’s experiences with age assurance under the Online Safety Act have shown , deploying age assurance technologies at scale comes with significant trade-offs: Existing age assurance technologies are either insufficiently accurate, undermine privacy and data security, or are not widely availa… …
UK government 'will make further statements in July about VPNs and further restrictions'
… To quote Evin McMullen, co-founder of age verification provider Privado ID, many age verification methods "are over exposing data to prove a simple point." Our Jacob spoke to McMullen as well as a number of other age verification specialists to explore some of the alternatives to our current privac… …
Google engineer arrested after allegedly making $1,200,000 on prediction markets
… A press release about the case from the Southern District court of New York attempts to explain, "In connection with his role, Spagnuolo had access to Google’s internal data systems, including an internal software tool that provided him with access to confidential, nonpublic data. …
Meta removes code for new facial recognition system from smart glasses app
… This data was deleted, but the company still had to face the music in court on the grounds that it had allegedly collected biometric data from users in an unlawful manner. …
'World of Warcraft Camelot' is a mysterious new branch of the MMO that Blizzard fans are convinced is the first real evidence of a remixed WoW Classic
… Blizzard has a track record of letting things slip by way of their internal server updates. …
Amazon drops its internal AI leaderboard for staff working on Kiro
… In the world of AI, tokens are small chunks of data. …
Microsoft says Edge saving passwords in plaintext is 'by design' but it still seems like a bad idea
… Browsers access password data in memory to help users sign in quickly and securely—this is an expected feature of the application. …