President Donald Trump signed the ‘Take It Down Act’, making it a federal crime to share or threaten to share explicit content without consent, including AI-generated images. The law requires platforms to remove such content within 48 hours and delete duplicates. Offenders, especially in cases involving minors, could face up to three years in prison….
Google agreed to pay $1.4 billion to the State of Texas on Friday to settle two lawsuits accusing it of violating the privacy of state residents by tracking their locations and searches, as well as collecting their facial recognition information. The state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton, who secured the settlement, brought the suits in 2022…
Even if it’s already happened. (You say that this is supposed to take place in a matter of weeks, if not sooner.) If this is the case, you must tell your boss that you’ve changed your mind about having her stay over and that she’ll have to make other arrangements. You are allowed to say…
Spend enough time in San Francisco, peering into the cyberpunk future, and you may find that weird things start seeming normal. Fleets of self-driving cars? Yawn. A start-up trying to resurrect the woolly mammoth? Sure, why not. Summoning a godlike artificial intelligence that could wipe out humanity? Ho-hum. You may even find yourself, as I…
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($600 million) on Friday for violating a European Union data privacy law after regulators found the company had improperly transferred users’ personal data to China. The Irish Data Protection Commission, which announced the penalty, said TikTok failed to adequately protect data of its users in Europe, including some that…
When I travel to Asia this summer, I plan to leave my iPhone at home. Instead, I’ll pack a different phone lacking my staple apps, like Instagram, Slack and Signal. It won’t even be logged in to my work email. No, I’m not planning a digital detox. I’m choosing to travel with what’s known as…
Privacy advocates say that all this data could enable the government to punish its political opponents by weaponizing information about an individual’s personal life (bankruptcies, criminal histories, medical claims) or halting the benefits they receive (housing vouchers, retirement checks, food assistance). “They have not demonstrated a single case in which fraud detection has required some…
NEW DELHI: A video of Australian cricketer and Sunrisers Hyderabad star Travis Head refusing a selfie with a fan has gone viral, sparking widespread debate on social media about the personal space and privacy of celebrities.In the clip, Head is seen casually shopping for groceries at a supermarket in Hyderabad during the ongoing Indian Premier…
On a recent morning, I knocked on the front door of a handsome two-story home in Redwood City, Calif. Within seconds, the door was opened by a faceless robot dressed in a beige bodysuit that clung tight to its trim waist and long legs. This svelte humanoid greeted me with what seemed to be a…
Cyber Attack: अमेरिका में टेस्ला कार मालिकों के लिए एक चिंताजनक खबर सामने आई है. हैकरों ने ‘Dogequest’ नामक एक वेबसाइट बनाकर हजारों टेस्ला मालिकों की प्राइवेट जानकारी लीक कर दी है. इस वेबसाइट पर कार मालिकों के नाम, पते और फोन नंबर सार्वजनिक कर दिए गए हैं. इतना ही नहीं वेबसाइट पर एक इंटरेक्टिव मैप…