Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers – 404 Media
A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming… read more
Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid – The Markup
Learn tips to successfully create and maintain a burner phone: https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/10/25/without-a-trace-how-to-take-your-phone-off-the-grid Check out the follow-up article: https://themarkup.org/levelup/2023/12/13/without-a-trace-how-to-keep-your-phone-off-the-grid
DuckDuckGo AI Chat
DuckDuckGo’s AI Chat provides anonymous access to popular AI models, including GPT-3.5, Claude 3, and open-source Llama 3 and Mixtral:… read more
The Changing Face of Protest – Rest of World
Over the past decade, there has been a steep rise globally in law enforcement using facial recognition technology. Data gathered… read more
The end of anonymity on Chinese social media – Rest of World
On October 31, Weibo, as well as several other major Chinese social media platforms including WeChat, Douyin, Zhihu, Xiaohongshu, and… read more
AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type – Wired
Vechev and his team found that the large language models that power advanced chatbots can accurately infer an alarming amount… read more
‘Too dangerous’: Why even Google was afraid to release this technology – NPR
Originally founded in 2017 by two computer programmers in Poland, it’s an AI tool that’s like a reverse image search… read more
How a ‘Digital Peeping Tom’ Unmasked Porn Actors – Wired
But this is the world facial recognition will usher in even more rapidly, one in which people are prejudged based… read more
The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech – 404 Media
A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating… read more
The Protecting Kids on Social Media Act is A Terrible Alternative to KOSA – EFF
A new bill sponsored by Sen. Schatz (D-HI), Sen. Cotton (R-AR), Sen. Murphy (D-CT), and Sen. Britt (R-AL) would combine some of the… read more