Facebook knew Android call-scraping would be ‘high-risk’ - The Verge
Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
WHO-rapport: Helseeffektene gjør tiltak mot klimaendringer lønnsomme – NRK
Den grunnleggende funnet i rapporten er at for hver krone verden bruker for å oppfylle klimatiltak, vil man spare inn to kroner i bedre helse
Quora Hacked
https://blog.quora.com/Quora-Security-Update
We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrait mode” - DIY Photography
https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-their-phones-portrait-mode/
Earlier this year, Samsung was busted for using stock photos to show off capabilities of Galaxy A8’s camera. And now they did it again – they used a stock image taken with a DSLR […]
Marriott says 500 million Starwood guest records stolen in massive data breach – TechCrunch
contained a guest’s name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, gender, email address, passport number, […] arrival and departure information, reservation date […]
Forbrukerrådet: – Google fører brukerne bak lyset
https://nrkbeta.no/2018/11/27/forbrukerradet-google-forer-brukerne-bak-lyset/
– Vi mener forbrukere manipuleres til å overvåkes når de benytter Googles tjenester. Dette skjer gjennom en rekke ulike metoder som å tilbakeholde eller skjule informasjon, benytte villedende designgrep[…]
AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking
Cities across China have debuted crime-fighting facial recognition technology to much fanfare over the past year. But some of these jaywalker-busting devices aren’t as impressive as they seem.
Chinese researcher claims first gene-edited babies
https://apnews.com/4997bb7aa36c45449b488e19ac83e86d
If true, it would be a profound leap of science and ethics.
Many mainstream scientists think it’s too unsafe to try, and some denounced the Chinese report as human experimentation.
Predictim, a service using AI to generate character scores for babysitters based on years of online activity, provides questionable recommendations to parents - The Washington Post
Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020 - Bloomberg
By the end of May, people with bad credit in China have been blocked from booking more than 11 million flights and 4 million high-speed train trips
EU watchdog: LinkedIn processed email addresses of 18M non-members and targeted them with advertising on Facebook without permission before GDPR became a law
Washington Asks Allies to Drop Huawei - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/washington-asks-allies-to-drop-huawei-1542965105
U.S. worried about potential Chinese meddling in 5G networks
One U.S. concern centers on the use of Chinese telecom equipment in countries that host American military bases
Facebook criticised for post promoting child bride auction – The Guardian
Company failed to remove post that informed users of auction of 17-year-old girl for several days
Facebook Files Algorithm Patent To Predict Who You Live With
use algorithms based on tagging, hashtags and face recognition technology to determine who lives in the same household
First ever plane with no moving parts takes flight – The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/21/first-ever-plane-with-no-moving-parts-takes-flight
The flight represents a breakthrough in “ionic wind” technology, which uses a powerful electric field to generate charged nitrogen ions, which are then expelled from the back of the aircraft, generating thrust.
New experimental Lockheed supersonic jet starts production – WTOP
The X-59 will cruise at a speed of about 940 mph and an altitude of 55,000 feet. Lockheed says it will create a sound about as loud as a car door closing, instead of a deafening sonic boom.
AI is transforming wildlife research by automating some tasks typically done manually by researchers, like identifying individual animals from photos
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/artificial-intelligence-counts-wild-animals/
From analyzing animal photos to combing through YouTube, new software is harnessing data never before accessible to scientists.
Rare microbes lead scientists to discover new branch on the tree of life – CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hemimastigotes-supra-kingdom-1.4715823
Hemimastigotes are more different from all other living things than animals are from fungi
Major SMS security lapse is a reminder to use authenticator apps instead - The Verge
anyone could have monitored a near-real-time data stream to find the relevant two-factor authentication code sent after trying to log into someone else’s account.
Facebook bug let websites read ‘likes’ and interests from a user’s profile – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/13/facebook-bug-website-leak-likes-interests-profile/
The vulnerability exposed the user and their friends’ interests, even if their privacy settings were set so that interests were only visible to the user’s friends