Incoming UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has confirmed that the UK government is scrapping a controversial digital ID card system announced last year by the country’s previous leader. The Burnham administration said savings from the discarded ID card program will fund a tax cut aimed at reducing household electricity bills amid rising cost of living.
“Your data is private. Period,” period tracker Stardust says on its website. As new research from Mozilla found, some users may find that claim overstated. According to Mozilla’s latest findings examining the privacy practices of period tracking apps, Stardust was found to be sharing users’ sensitive health information with third-party analytics company RudderStack. This data
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) is reportedly ending its agreement with Flock Safety, a surveillance company that helps law enforcement track vehicles using thousands of its license plate cameras located across the United States. A senior LAPD official told media outlets, first reported by ABC7 and the Los Angeles Times, that the police department
Flock Safety is going through a rough patch with one of its biggest clients. The Los Angeles Police Department let its agreement with the surveillance company expire over the past weekend, a department spokesperson told Business Insider on Monday. “We wanted to address some of the concerns about civil liberties and civil rights and ensure
If your Instagram account is public, your photos, including your profile photo, can now be targeted by other people’s AI creations, unless you change a hidden setting in the app. Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced Tuesday, allows users to generate AI images using public Instagram posts by tagging another person’s account in a message.
Meta’s AI glasses have a growing reputation as creepy technology. The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. The move is apparently a concession to consumer sentiment that glasses are not just fun,