The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits.The justices heard arguments in Salazar v. Paramount Global on Wednesday…
Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after complaints from busin…
Flock has not dropped any customer over abuse of its licence plate cameras, chief executive Garrett Langley said on Wednesday. He spoke on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, in an interview with TechCrunch editor-in-chief Connie Loizos. Floc…
The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with…
Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Dia…
“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are…
Turn on the Surveillance option and you’ll see tiny eyeballs on the map marking the cameras’ locations.
MapQuest has added a surveillance layer to its app that shows known outdoor cameras and licence plate readers, including those made by Flock Safety. Users can switch it on in Map Options, next to the traffic and incidents layers. The update follows a s…
“To buy stuff, you can just take a picture of your credit card, drop it in the chat and Grok @Bot will scour the Internet for the best deal on the item you want and order it.” Elon Musk posted that advice on X on Saturday. On Thursday he added a promis…
A 1988 federal law could bar tech companies from using video viewing data for targeted ads without explicit user consent.