Forbrukerrådet vil forby annonser som forfølger deg
https://nrkbeta.no/2021/06/23/forbrukerradet-vil-forby-annonser-som-forfolger-deg/
I en ny rapport tar Forbrukerrådet oppgjør med det de kaller «overvåkningsbasert reklame», noe de ønsker å forby.
Høyesterett godkjenner bruk av Trojan Shields-beviser i norsk rett
Høyesterett sier bruk av bevis fra amerikanske FBI i Trojan Shields-saker i norske domstoler ikke strider med grunnleggende norske verdier.
Bombshell Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened
new paper shows that two old encryption algorithms still used in mobile networks can be exploited to spy on phones’ internet traffic.
The paper has sent shockwaves through the encryption community because of what it implies: The researchers believe that the mathematical probability of the weakness being introduced on accident is extremely low. Thus, they speculate that a weakness was intentionally put into the algorithm.
Facebook Is Starting to Roll Out Ads in Its Oculus VR Headsets Because of Course It Is — Pixel Envy
https://pxlnv.com/linklog/oculus-ads/
Facebook is an advertising company. From the moment it bought Oculus in 2014, there were questions about whether it was going to be used as yet another place where we cannot escape from companies trying to sell us crap — so much so that Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey promised in a Reddit Q&A that the headsets would not be used for advertising. Imagine my surprise when, under its creepy ad company ownership, that is turning out to be untrue.
Apple’s Compromises in China: 5 Takeaways - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-privacy-censorship.html
To stay on the good side of the Chinese authorities, the company has made decisions that contradict its carefully curated image.
TikTok just gave itself permission to collect biometric data on US users, including ‘faceprints and voiceprints’ - TechCrunch
U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism - Reuters
JBS, the world’s largest meat supplier, hit with cyberattack - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/1/22463621/jbs-cyberattack-russia-largest-meat-supplier
the attack has the potential to disrupt global availability of beef and pork if not resolved quickly
Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors - Ars Technica
If you use Alexa, Echo, or many other Amazon devices, you have only 10 days until you’re opted in to an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance.
Alibaba’s Huge Browser Business Is Recording Millions Of Android And iPhone Users’ ‘Private’ Web Habits
on both Android and iOS versions of UC Browser, every website a user visits, regardless of whether they’re in incognito mode or not, is sent to servers owned by UCWeb.
Terms and Conditions Game
Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen - Lauren Bridges - The Guardian
One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately owned home security cameras without a warrant
A Hard Bargain for Apple in China
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/05/19/a-hard-bargain-for-apple-in-china/
US passes emergency waiver over fuel pipeline cyber-attack - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57050690
The US government issued emergency legislation on Sunday after the largest fuel pipeline in the US was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack. The Colonial Pipeline carries 2.5 million barrels a day – 45% of the East Coast’s supply of diesel, gasoline and jet fuel. It was completely knocked offline by a cyber-criminal gang on Friday and work to restore service is continuing. The emergency status relaxes rules on fuel being transported by road.
Tesla privately admits Elon Musk has been exaggerating about ‘full self-driving’ - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424592/tesla-elon-musk-autopilot-dmv-fsd-exaggeration
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been overstating the capabilities of the company’s advanced driver assist system, the company’s director of Autopilot software told the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
Tesla is at Level 2 currently.
IBM Creates First 2nm Chip
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16656/ibm-creates-first-2nm-chip
Ransomware gang threatens to expose police informants if ransom is not paid - The Record
https://therecord.media/ransomware-gang-threatens-to-expose-police-informants-if-ransom-is-not-paid/
Scientists create online games to show risks of AI emotion recognition - Artificial intelligence (AI) - The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/04/online-games-ai-emotion-recognition-emojify
“The claim of the people who are developing this technology is that it is reading emotion,” said Hagerty. But, she added, in reality the system was reading facial movement and then combining that with the assumption that those movements are linked to emotions – for example a smile means someone is happy.
“There is lots of really solid science that says that is too simple; it doesn’t work quite like that,” said Hagerty, adding that even just human experience showed it was possible to fake a smile. “That is what that game was: to show you didn’t change your inner state of feeling rapidly six times, you just changed the way you looked on your face,” she said.
Kommersiell sporing i offentlig sektor - Teknologirådet
https://teknologiradet.no/publication/kommersiell-sporing-i-offentlig-sektor/
Offentlig sektor deler informasjon om norske innbyggere med kommersielle aktører. Det er et demokratisk problem fordi vi ikke kan velge bort overvåkningen, og et konkurransepolitisk problem fordi det styrker de digitale monopolene.
Med denne rapporten ønsker vi å sette søkelys på hvordan overvåkingsøkonomien og sporing på internett har inntatt offentlig sektor. Gjennom å bruke gratis tilgjengelige verktøy fra de store internettselskapene, inviterer offentlige nettsteder kommersielle aktører inn i de innerste sfærene av våre liv.
Denne utviklingen er problematisk fordi offentlige tjenester kommer tett på oss og våre privatliv, og det ikke finnes noen alternative tjenestetilbydere. Offentlig sektor bør derfor ta et særlig ansvar for å ikke dele data om oss med kommersielle aktører.
Tesla: “Full self-driving beta” isn’t designed for full self-driving - Ars Technica
The transparency site PlainSite recently published a pair of letters Tesla wrote to the California Department of Motor Vehicles in late 2020. The letters cast doubt on Elon Musk’s optimistic timeline for the development of fully driverless technology.
For years, Elon Musk has been predicting that fully driverless technology is right around the corner. At an April 2019 event, Musk predicted that Teslas would be capable of fully driverless operation—known in industry jargon as “level 5″—by the end of 2020.
Tesla told state regulators that the software is “not capable of recognizing or responding” to “static objects and road debris, emergency vehicles, construction zones, large uncontrolled intersections with multiple incoming ways, occlusions, adverse weather, complicated or adversarial vehicles in the driving path, and unmapped roads.”
In a December follow-up, Tesla added that “we expect the functionality to remain largely unchanged in a future, full release to the customer fleet.” Tesla added that “we do not expect significant enhancements” that would “shift the responsibility for the entire dynamic driving task to the system.” The system “will continue to be an SAE Level 2, advanced driver-assistance feature.”
SAE level 2 is industry jargon for a driver-assistance systems that perform functions like lane-keeping and adaptive cruise control. By definition, level 2 systems require continual human oversight. Fully driverless systems—like the taxi service Waymo is operating in the Phoenix area—are considered level 4 systems.