LinkedIn is using your data to train Microsoft and its own AI models–Here’s how to turn it off
LinkedIn doesn’t get explicit consent for training AI, requiring users to opt out.
Thomas Brewster, Forbes Staff
Google’s privacy chief is out and will not be replaced
Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams. Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also departing.
Google ordered to unmask certain YouTube users. Critics say it’s ‘terrifying’
The federal government asked Google to turn over information on anyone who viewed multiple YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional.
Musk’s X fired 80% of engineers working on trust and safety, Australian Government says
Half of internal moderators and a third of X’s trust and safety team globally were fired after Musk’s arrival, Australia’s online safety regulator says.
Russian hackers’ lawsuit reveals weaknesses in Apple’s iOS 16
A Moscow legal battle strongly indicates that phone forensics tools used by both the FBI and FSB are exploiting security loopholes in Apple’s operating system.
Inside Apple’s impossible war on child exploitation
Apple spent years trying to design a system to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material on iPhones and iCloud. When the company scrapped it, child protection investigators were frustrated. But Apple’s privacy-first approach gained plenty of fans in the process.
AI facial recognition used in thousands of child exploitation cold cases
DHS is using facial recognition and AI to find child abusers and rescue victims in a major new operation underway to solve thousands of cold cases.
FBI agents are helping ICE and DOJ trace crypto
Their new company, Naxo, has contracts with ICE, the DOJ and the SEC. It’s also offering to exhume cryptocurrency locked away in hard drives.