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  “This is the #AI men actually use”: #Meta #ads pushed apps #nudifying real teens Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child #sexual #abuse material (#CSAM ) on #Facebook and #Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a preteen girl deemed an influencer. In an investigation published Tuesday, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta fai...

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  Cities Are Ditching #Flock , Immediately Replacing It With #Axon #LicensePlate Readers #privacy #alpr https://www.404media.co/cities-are-ditching-flock-immediately-replacing-it-with-axon-license-plate-readers/

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  Nobody Knows if OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s #AI #Hacking Sprees Are #illegal Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and #hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a #bot ? #openai #anthropic #security #privacy https://www.wired.com/story/openai-anthropic-ai-hacking-sprees-illegal/

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  #Flock Pitched a Plan To Turn #Uber and #Lyft Drivers Into Roaming #Surveillance #Vehicles #privacy #alpr https://www.404media.co/flock-pitched-a-plan-to-turn-uber-and-lyft-drivers-into-roaming-surveillance-vehicles/

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  ‘DO NOT MENTION #ALPR USAGE’: How #Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of #Flock When cops use Flock to arrest someone in #WapelloCounty , #Iowa , they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for the automated license plate reader #cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret: “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE,” the policy document reads. “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.” The police...

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  @eff@mas.to at #BlackHat USA August 5, 2026 - 8:00am PDT to August 6, 2026 - 6:00pm PDT Mandalay Bay | #LasVegas , #NV EFF will be back in Las Vegas, NV for #BlackHatUSA ! We're excited to be in the Business Hall, where you can come say hi and learn more about the work we are doing to defend digital freedoms. You can even pick up a special member gift as a token of our thanks when you take advantage of our membership specials or donate! #privacy #security #rights #hacking https://www.eff...

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  #StateDepartment #Map Mislabels #African Countries at #AIDS Conference #Nigeria , a coastal country in Western #Africa , was landlocked in the #Sahara , among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.” > are they smarter than a fifth grader? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/us/politics/state-department-map-africa.html

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  Mistaken #Username Sent Man to #Prison for 18 Months, Court Finds An appeals court in #Canada acquitted Brandon Klayme of child pornography-related charges. His Kik username had one less underscore than another account that was involved. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/world/canada/wrongful-conviction-kik-username-underscore.html

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  DEF CON Bans Meta-Style 'Pervert Glasses' #defcon #metaglasses #privacy https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/07/28/171225/def-con-bans-meta-style-pervert-glasses?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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  The Best Subscription-Free Home #Security #Cameras I’ve Tried You don’t have to upload your #video to the #cloud or pay a monthly fee to secure your home. These security cameras record locally. #privacy #surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/best-subscription-free-security-cameras/

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  Tons of Peoples’ #Claude #Chats and Creations are #Exposed on #Google Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were publicly available for strangers to see #ai #privacy #security https://www.404media.co/tons-of-peoples-claude-chats-and-creations-are-exposed-on-google/

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  Apple's #SmartGlasses Delayed, As Engineers Consider #Privacy Concerns #apple https://apple.slashdot.org/story/26/07/26/2022231/apples-smart-glasses-delayed-as-engineers-consider-privacy-concerns?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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  #BigTech accused of stonewalling #European social media #researchers In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential vote in November 2024, #TikTok accounts that had previously spent years posting about manicures or fashion suddenly started promoting a little-known #politician named #CalinGeorgescu. His posts, espousing hard-line views on #immigration and anti-Semitic tropes, were viewed 120 million times before the vote. #Georgescu, who had previously been polling in the single digits, st...

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  #European researchers want to study social media’s harms but can’t get the data #EU law gives #researchers unprecedented #rights to scrutinize #BigTech. Researchers say #TikTok , X, and #Meta are still deciding who gets to look inside. #Twitter #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #dataanalysis https://www.wired.com/story/european-researchers-want-to-study-social-medias-harms-but-cant-get-the-data/

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  #Leaked Document Shows the #Surveillance Tech at ICE’s Fingertips A leaked document shows the spread of surveillance and investigative capabilities that Immigration and #Customs Enforcement (#ICE ) officials have access to agency wide, from location data harvested from #smartphones , to facial recognition apps that can reveal someone’s #identity , to tools that let the agency stay #anonymous online and approach people #undercover. The document covers everything from monitoring social media to...

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  The #FourthCircuit Says #Border Agents Can #Search Your #Phone By Hand, No Suspicion Required The Fourth Circuit issued a disappointing opinion in U.S. v. Belmonte Cardozo, a case in which @eff@mastodon.social filed an amicus brief, alongside the national #ACLU, its #Maryland , #NorthCarolina , #SouthCarolina , and #Virginia affiliates, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (#NACDL ). We argued that electronic device searches at the border should require a #warrant based on...

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  #Flock ‘Objects to Our Removing Their Equipment’: Emails Reveal Why a Town Put Bags Over Its Flock #Cameras #alpr #privacy https://www.404media.co/flock-objects-to-our-removing-their-equipment-emails-reveal-why-a-town-put-bags-over-its-flock-cameras/

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  States Want #ICE Agents to Show Their Faces. The #Trump Administration Is Blocking Them Federal lawyers say anti-mask laws would endanger #immigration agents, citing an ICE face-recognition art project that doesn’t actually work. #privacy #security https://www.wired.com/story/states-want-ice-agents-to-show-their-faces-the-trump-administration-is-blocking-them/

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  US Police Now Armed With #Israeli #Spy Vans Simulating #MobilePhone Towers If you thought #Flock was bad check out #Falconet. Falconet from Israeli company #Cognyte serves as a cell tower simulator that intercepts cell phone data from all devices within range. #Police mount these systems in Tahoes so the vehicles can collect information while driving through areas without any direct interaction with targets. This mobile approach generates ongoing records of phone locations and communications f...

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  #OpenAI Models Escaped #Containment and #Hacked #HuggingFace The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing #sandbox #exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack. #cybersecurity #security #0day #zeroday #gpt #privacy #ai #artificialintelligence https://www.wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface/

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  New Study Links Teen Boys' #ADHD #Symptoms To #Addictive #SocialMedia Use https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/18/0327200/new-study-links-teen-boys-adhd-symptoms-to-addictive-social-media-use?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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  The #ACLU Is Arming #Lawyers to Expose State #Surveillance #Secrets A new toolkit for #attorneys in #Massachusetts targets the technologies #police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports. #ai #facialrecognition #security https://www.wired.com/story/the-aclu-is-arming-lawyers-to-expose-state-surveillance-secrets/

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  #AI advice made people 3X less accurate but 2X as confident, researchers found Willingness to say "I don't know" collapsed from 44% to 3% when AI was available. Monetary incentives barely helped. #artificialintelligence #gigo https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

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  #ICE to Pay #ThomsonReuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’ The Department of #HomelandSecurity (#DHS ) plans to pay data broker giant Thomson #Reuters $125 million for access to its databases of personal data — which includes peoples’ names, addresses, #SocialSecurity numbers, ethnicity, #socialmedia posts, and #geolocation information — to help #Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) investigate what it describes as “voters fraud” and immigration fraud, according to procurement document...

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  #FBI Has Looked at Using Questionable #AI Tech to Review #Signatures on Seized Mail-In #Ballots The FBI has explored using artificial intelligence to assess the validity of signatures on tens of thousands of mail-in ballot envelopes seized from #FultonCounty, #Georgia , the latest push in the #Trump administration’s unprecedented reinvestigation of the 2020 #vote. The effort, according to internal communications reviewed by ProPublica and an agency tech specialist familiar with the work, focu...

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  #Guerrilla #London #BusAds Mock Kylie Jenner’s #MetaGlasses Campaign “Billionaires could fund cures for cancer — so why are they funding #glasses for perverts instead?” asked the protest group #EveryoneHatesElon #kyliejenner #facebook #privacy #security https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/

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  LARPING: How #Influencers Fake Being Rich This week, we talk about Jason's dive into the world of LARPing, where #hustlebros and influencers use fake #YouTube , #OnlyFans , and #Stripe dashboards as "proof" that they're rich in order to sell low-quality get-rich-quick courses in pyramid schemes. We show how easy it is to pretend like you're rich, and how these strategies are used all over social media. https://www.404media.co/larping-how-influencers-fake-being-rich/

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  #Meta Ordered by E.U. to Alter ‘Addictive Design’ of #Instagram and #Facebook The preliminary ruling against Meta is the latest effort by the #EuropeanCommission in #Brussels to confront social media companies over some of the ways they hook users. #eu #socialmedia #darkpatterns https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/meta-instagram-facebook-europe.html

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  Disable auto-play and infinite scroll or risk massive fines, EU tells Meta https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/disable-auto-play-and-infinite-scroll-or-risk-massive-fines-eu-tells-meta/

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  How to Share Your #Location on an #iPhone or #Android Phone (2026) Whether it’s through #GoogleMaps or Emergency SOS, there are plenty of ways to quickly let your loved ones know where you are. #privacy #tracking https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-share-your-location-android-ios/