FarSight: The Drone Surveillance System That Identifies You by Your Walk, Not Just Your Face
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
Privacy & Cybersecurity Articles
643 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
The EU's Digital ID Wallet Deadline Is December 2026. Most Member States Aren't Close.
Every EU member state must offer a functional European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. As of April, only four had reached public sandbox stage...
70+ Civil Liberties Groups Want Meta to Stop Its Facial Recognition Smart Glasses. An Internal Memo Explains Why They're Worried.
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
The EFF Says the SECURE Data Act Is Privacy Theater — Are They Right?
We covered the SECURE Data Act when it passed committee, calling it a meaningful step toward federal privacy law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation j...
The FTC Just Banned a Data Broker From Selling Sensitive Location Data. Here's Why That Matters.
The FTC secured a settlement banning Kochava's subsidiary from selling sensitive location data linked to millions of mobile devices — including data r...
Canada Found OpenAI Broke Privacy Law Training GPT-4. The Fix Doesn't Apply to the Models That Broke It.
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy commissioners found that OpenAI's collection of personal data to train GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was 'overbroad and ...
GDPR Breach Notifications Hit 443 Per Day — What Eight Years of Data Tells Us
European data protection authorities are now receiving 443 personal data breach notifications every single day — a 22% increase over last year and the...
Your Scattered Public Data Can Be Assembled Into a Digital Twin of You — Researchers Just Proved It
Researchers used LLMs, GANs, and cross-platform image matching to reconstruct detailed personal profiles from fragmented public social media data — ac...
GM Sold Your Location to Data Brokers While Claiming It Didn't. California Just Fined Them $12.75 Million.
General Motors earned $20 million selling OnStar driver location and behaviour data to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis while its privacy policy told c...
Vietnam Just Enacted Its First National Data Protection Law — Southeast Asia's Privacy Landscape Is Changing Fast
Vietnam has enacted its first comprehensive national data protection law, joining a wave of privacy legislation sweeping Southeast Asia. The law intro...
New York Is Coming for Your Face and Your AI Training Data — Two Bills Just Passed
New York's Senate passed the Biometric Identifier Privacy Act, requiring opt-in consent before companies can collect your facial geometry, fingerprint...
Colorado Just Scrapped Its AI Law and Started Over — Here's What Changed and Why It Matters
Colorado was supposed to be the state that gave America its GDPR-equivalent for artificial intelligence. Instead, the governor just signed a bill repe...