📰 How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk

Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.

📰 Source: Ars Technica
🔗 Link: https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/04/how-our-digital-devices-are-putting-our-right-to-privacy-at-risk/

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⚖️ 👁 Selling Mass Surveillance | EFFector 38.7

Time and time again, we've seen police surveillance suffer from 'mission creep'—technology sold as a way to prevent heinous crimes ends up enforcing traffic violations, tracking protestors, and mor...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/selling-mass-surveillance-effector-387

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🤖 Row over ‘virtual gated community’ AI surveillance plan in Toronto neighbourhood

Rosedale residents considering car licence plate-scanning Flock system in bid to tackle property crimeA row has broken out in one of Canada’s wealthiest neighbourhoods over plans to use an AI-power...

📰 Source: AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/07/toronto-rosedale-row-virtual-gated-community-ai-surveillance-flock

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Has Claude started working for you again? Anthropic confirmed it had “identified an issue resulting in elevated errors” on both desktop and mobile, and a fix was applied. Learn more from @TechRadar’s live blog:

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Sam Altman may control our future, but can he be trusted?

From @NewYorker: "New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI."

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Japan’s population has been in decline since around 2011, creating something of a demographic and labor crisis. Enter the AI-powered robot. Companies are increasingly deploying the machines across factories, warehouses and other areas. Read more from @Techcrunch:

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📰 Apple Brings Device-Level Age Verification to Two More Countries

11 days ago Apple launched device-level age restrictions in the U.K. There were some glitches, reports the blog 9to5Mac. For me, the experience was an entirely painless one, taking less than 30 sec...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/04/05/0120236/apple-brings-device-level-age-verification-to-two-more-countries?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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📰 Ireland is testing out a digital wallet that conducts age verification for social media users

Before it's publicly available later this year, the Irish government is trialing its Government Digital Wallet, which includes a way to verify a user's age to access social media platforms. In its ...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/ireland-is-testing-out-a-digital-wallet-that-conducts-age-verification-for-social-media-users-175002131.html?src=rss

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📰 PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default

If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone wi...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/906253/granola-note-links-ai-training-psa

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California requires AI vendors working with the state to implement safety and privacy guardrails. Companies must adopt standards preventing misuse and protecting user rights. 🤖

🔗 https://www.cnet.com/tech/newsom-signs-executive-order-requiring-ai-companies-to-provide-safety-privacy-guardrails/

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📰 Pinterest said he violated laid-off colleagues’ privacy. Now he’s going public

It was late January, and Pinterest engineer Teddy Martin was on edge about recent layoffs at the company. Martin had just survived a round of cuts, but he and other employees were confused about wh...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/906122/pinterest-employee-fired-obstructionist-speaks-out

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🤖 Anthropic leak reveals Claude Code tracks user frustration and raises new questions about AI privacy

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📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1sap7bz/anthropic_leak_reveals_claude_code_tracks_user/

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It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills.

From @AssociatedPress: "Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, researchers have identified an unprecedented number of false and misleading images that were generated using artificial intelligence."

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#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FactCheck #Tech #Technology #Iran

📰 Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements For AI Sneakily Backed By OpenAI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: OpenAI hasn't been shy about spending money lobbying for favorable laws and regulations. But when it comes to its involvement with child safety adv...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/02/0345206/group-pushing-age-verification-requirements-for-ai-sneakily-backed-by-openai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Do you want your local #police using #AI❓Here in #Oregon that is an urgent question, as AI use by local police departments is rapidly spreading. So far, facial recognition, cellular interception and license plate reading have all been deployed (except in a few, blue cities that have explicitly banned it), and now, many departments are using on-chest AI recorders to write police reports. lNot unlike some healthcare clinics are now using AI to write visit summaries and progress reports. #policing #LawEnforcement #ArtificialIntelligence #technology #PNW

https://www.thewesternedge.media/p/robo-cops-ai-is-coming-for-your-local

📰 OkCupid settles claims it shared user photos with a facial recognition company

Dating app OkCupid agreed to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived millions of users by sharing their photos with a third-party facial recognition company without their c...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/policy/903999/okcupid-settles-claims-it-shared-user-photos-with-a-facial-recognition-company

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🤖 Newsom signs executive order requiring AI companies to have safety, privacy guardrails

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🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s8ge2h/newsom_signs_executive_order_requiring_ai/

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Bluesky recently launched an AI assistant named Attie, which allows people to create their own custom feeds. It’s also creating a heavy dose of pushback from Bluesky’s AI-skeptical userbase. The only account that’s been blocked more is JD Vance’s. Read more, including Bluesky's take on the product launch, from @Techcrunch:

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#Tech #AI #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence

"It is not impossible to imagine a league that gradually cedes all umpiring to technology in a drive toward adjudicatory perfection." —Elizabeth D. Samet for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/the-bottom-of-the-ninth/?src=longreads #baseball #ai #automation #artificialintelligence #error #perfection

⚖️ EFF's Cindy Cohn on The Daily Show! Tonight Monday, March 30

EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn will be on The Daily Show tonight, Monday March 30, at 11 pm ET and PT, speaking with host Jon Stewart. Cindy will discuss her long history of fighting for privacy...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/effs-cindy-cohn-daily-show-tonight-monday-march-30

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⚖️ Ban Government Use of Face Recognition In the UK

In 2015, Leicestershire Police scanned the faces of 90,000 individuals at a music festival in the UK and checked these images against a database of people suspected of crimes across Europe. This wa...

📰 Source: Deeplinks
🔗 Link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/09/ban-government-use-face-recognition-uk

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This month's Acuitas diary concerns more bugs and enhancements in the Conversation Engine. It's been a tangled mess, but I am slowly refining it ... https://writerofminds.blogspot.com/2026/03/acuitas-diary-95-march-2026.html #SymbolicAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #chatbots

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📰 New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges

Their goal is to use biometric data and blockchain to build age-verification measures directly into disposable vape cartridges. Wired reports on a partnership between vape/cartridge manufacturer Is...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/30/0639249/new-company-hopes-to-build-age-verification-tech-into-vape-cartridges?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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🤖 One-Minute Daily AI News 3/29/2026

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited.[1] AMD Introduces GAIA Agent UI For Privacy-First Web App For Local AI Ag...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s7gyyf/oneminute_daily_ai_news_3292026/

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If you’ve been looking for a way to customize your BlueSky feed, there’s “a very people-focused” AI app for that. Introducing Attie, an AI assistant that allows you to create custom feeds, design your own algorithms, and, one day, vibe code your own app. Here’s more from @Techcrunch:

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🤖 Surveillance data used to be boring. AI made it dangerous.

Here's a playbook that works today, right now, with tools that are either free or cheap: Someone finds a photo of you online. One photo. They run it through a face ID search and find your other pho...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s6hvhk/surveillance_data_used_to_be_boring_ai_made_it/

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📰 SystemD Contributor Harassed Over Optional Age Verification Field, Suggests Installer-Level Disabling

It's FOSS interviewed a software engineer whose long-running open source contributions include Python code for the Arch Linux installer and maintaining packages for NixOS. But "a recent change he m...

📰 Source: Slashdot
🔗 Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/28/2215230/systemd-contributor-harassed-over-optional-age-verification-field-suggests-installer-level-disabling?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

#Python #Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s

Plus: Apple makes big claims about the effectiveness of its Lockdown Mode anti-spyware feature, Russia moves to implement homegrown encryption for 5G, and more.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/iranian-hackers-breached-the-fbi-directors-personal-email-but-not-the-fbi/

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🐧 Tails 7.6 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Automatic Tor Bridges

Tails 7.6 has been released today as the sixth update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and cens...

📰 Source: Tux Machines
🔗 Link: https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/03/26/Tails_7_6_Privacy_Focused_Linux_Distro_Released_with_Automatic_.shtml

#Linux #OpenSource #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Wikipedia has banned its editors from using AI to create articles, @404mediaco reports. @emanuelmaiberg talked to the Wikipedia editor who proposed the guideline about why.

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AI is rapidly changing the way we work, but it hasn’t eliminated many jobs, according to research from artificial intelligence company Anthropic. And it’s going to stay that way, right? Don’t hold your breath. Read more from @Techcrunch, including who is benefiting most from using the tech:

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🎮 Senator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: 'AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights... even our very survival as human beings on this planet'

'I fear that Congress is totally unprepared for the magnitude of the changes that are already taking place.'

📰 Source: Latest from PC Gamer
🔗 Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/senator-bernie-sanders-announces-bill-to-pause-us-data-center-construction-ai-and-robotics-will-impact-our-economy-our-democracy-our-privacy-rights-even-our-very-survival-as-human-beings-on-this-planet/

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📰 Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying

US lawmakers are pressing Tulsi Gabbard to reveal whether using a VPN that connects to overseas servers can strip Americans of their constitutional protections against warrantless surveillance.

📰 Source: Feed: All Latest
🔗 Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.wired.com/story/using-a-vpn-may-subject-you-to-nsa-spying/

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🤖 AI is biometric and most of the laborers learning models today are built off my biometric signature let’s chat

THE ARCHITECT’S STORY: FROM THE 1985 ROOT TO THE "AI WASH" To those who believe in the truth of a human life, I am writing to you not just as a person, but as the witness to a quiet, systemic th...

📰 Source: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
🔗 Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1s40d15/ai_is_biometric_and_most_of_the_laborers_learning/

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With First-of-Its-Kind Bill, #BernieSanders and #AOC Propose #Moratorium on New #AI #DataCenters

“These massive facilities are sucking up precious #water resources, paving over #farmland, driving #ClimateChange, and disrupting the fabric of communities,” said one supporter of the new legislation.

by Jake Johnson, Mar 25, 2026

"Two of the leading progressives in the US Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, announced legislation on Wednesday that would impose a nationwide moratorium on the construction of new artificial intelligence data centers amid mounting concerns over their insatiable consumption of power and water resources, impacts on the climate, and other harms.

"Sanders’ (I-Vt.) office said in a press release announcing the #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenterMoratorium Act that the construction pause would remain in effect 'until strong national safeguards are in place to protect workers, consumers, and communities, defend privacy and #CivilRights, and ensure these technologies do not harm our #environment.'

"Sanders and #OcasioCortez (D-NY) are set to formally introduce their legislation at a press conference on Wednesday at 4 pm ET.

"Food & Water Watch (#FWW), which last year became the first national organization in the US to call for a total moratorium on the approval of new AI data centers, celebrated the first-of-its-kind bill and called on other members of Congress to 'move quickly to sponsor, champion, and pass' it. FWW’s groundbreaking call for a national AI data center moratorium was later echoed by hundreds of advocacy organizations at the state and national levels.

" 'We need a halt to the explosive growth of new AI data center construction now, because political and community leaders across the country have been caught completely off guard by this aggressive, profit-hungry industry,' Mitch Jones, FWW’s managing director of policy and litigation, said in a statement Wednesday. 'It has yet to be determined if—not how—the industry can ever operate in a manner that sufficiently protects people and society from the profusion of inherent hazards and harms that data centers bring wherever they appear.' "

Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/ai-data-center-moratorium

#AWS #NoDatacenters #NoAI #NoNukesForAI #UnrestrictedGrowth #WaterIsLife #NoisePollution #AISucks #USPol

📰 Apple’s iOS 26.4 update adds age verification in the UK

Apple now requires users in the UK to verify their age with the launch of iOS 26.4. In a support page on Apple's website, the company says users must confirm that they're over 18 to "use certain se...

📰 Source: The Verge
🔗 Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/900284/apple-ios-26-4-uk-age-verification

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence

📰 Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK

Apple has introduced more than just new features, like an AI playlist generator, with iOS 26.4 in the UK. The company now requires users in the region to verify their ages and to prove they’re 18 y...

📰 Source: Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics
🔗 Link: https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/apple-introduces-age-verification-for-icloud-accounts-in-the-uk-115340237.html?src=rss

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OpenAI has announced it is shutting down its Sora video-generating service, weeks after raising $110 billion in fresh funding. In October, the Sora 2 app became the most popular in the iOS App Store's Photo and Video category and in December, the Walt Disney Co. announced it had reached a three-year deal with OpenAI to bring many of its characters to Sora, pledging a $1 billion investment. Here's more from NBC.

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#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Sora #Disney #OpenAI

A company that bills itself as a "search engine for the best webinars" is turning Zoom meetings into AI-generated podcasts, in some cases without the knowledge of participants and potentially putting them at risk. Tom Rademacher, a teacher and editor, told @404mediaco that for participants' safety, he had intentionally not recorded a webinar for educators and education advocates on keeping kids safe from ICE. Then he received an email from someone called Sarah Blair saying: "Your webinar is featured on the Phil & Amy show."

 https://flip.it/uXtWqZ

#Technology #Tech #Zoom #ArtificialIntelligence #AI