Driverless Cars Should Spare Young People Over Old in Unavoidable Accidents

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/evw3w7/driverless-cars-spare-young-people-over-old-in-a-car-accident-moral-machine-survey-find

In the Moral Machine Experiment, a survey of more than two million people from 233 countries, people preferred to save humans over animals, young over old, and more people over fewer.

Portrait by AI program sells for $432,000 - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45980863

The artwork was produced using an algorithm and a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th and 20th Centuries.

Introducing 1Password for Democracy

https://blog.1password.com/introducing-1password-for-democracy/

Whether you’re running for office, ensuring elections run fairly, or protecting people’s rights, we’d like to offer you a completely free 1Password account to thank you for the essential work you do for society.

Tim Cook calls for strong US privacy law, rips “data-industrial complex”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/tim-cook-calls-for-strong-us-privacy-law-rips-data-industrial-complex/

Apple CEO Tim Cook today called on the US government to pass “a comprehensive federal privacy law,” saying that tech companies that collect wide swaths of user data are engaging in surveillance.

Quantum computers will break the encryption that protects the internet - Future-proofing the internet

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/20/quantum-computers-will-break-the-encryption-that-protects-the-internet

Fixing things will be tricky

U.S. Begins First Cyberoperation Against Russia Aimed at Protecting Elections - NYTimes

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/russian-hacking-usa-cyber-command.html

targeting individual Russian operatives […], telling them that American operatives have identified them and are tracking their work

When Facebook launched Portal, the company promised that no data collected through the devices would be used to re-target users withs ads. Well, that turned out not to be true…

https://wersm.com/facebook-portal-can-collect-your-data-for-future-ad-targeting/

Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/genome-hackers-show-no-ones-dna-is-anonymous-anymore/

60% of Americans of European descent can be identified via public DNA databases, regardless of whether they’ve submitted their own DNA data or not

As Facebook has shown a lack of caution and unquenchable desire for personal info, debuting Portal home video chat devices is just its latest tone-deaf decision

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/facebook-isnt-sorry-it-just-wants-your-data

in-home panopticon

Google+ bug gave outsiders potential access to private data from 2015 to mid-2018; no disclosure made amid fear of blowback and no evidence of misuse - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-exposed-user-data-feared-repercussions-of-disclosing-to-public-1539017194

The Cybersecurity World Is Debating WTF Is Going on With Bloomberg’s Chinese Microchip Stories - Motherboard

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qv9npv/bloomberg-china-supermicro-apple-hack

No one is really sure who to believe after Businessweek’s bombshell story on an alleged Chinese supply chain attack against Apple, Amazon, and others.

Russia Targeted Investigators Trying to Expose Its Misdeeds, Western Allies Say - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/russia-hacks-doping-poisoning.html

the British foreign ministry, antidoping agencies in Colorado Springs and Canada, and investigators examining the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014

You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads. | Electronic Frontier Foundation

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/you-gave-facebook-your-number-security-they-used-it-ads

Add “a phone number I never gave Facebook for targeted advertising” to the list of deceptive and invasive ways Facebook makes money off your personal information.

Facebook Hack Puts Thousands of Other Sites at Risk - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/technology/facebook-hack-other-sites.html

Companies that allow customers to log in with Facebook Connect are scrambling to figure out whether their own user accounts have been compromised.

First Case Surfaces of Law Enforcement Forcing Suspect to Unlock iPhone With Face ID - Mac Rumors

https://www.macrumors.com/2018/10/01/first-case-law-suspect-unlock-iphone-face-id/

New Zealand travelers may now be compelled at customs to hand over device passwords or face a $5K fine on “reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing”, under new law – Radio New Zealand

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/367642/travellers-refusing-digital-search-now-face-5000-customs-fine

No Cash Needed At This Cafe. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data – NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data

By doing so, the students also open themselves up to receiving information from corporate sponsors who pay the cafe to reach its clientele

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites Than Facebook – WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-security-breach-third-party-sites/

If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook.

Are Delivery Drones Commercially Viable? Iceland Is About to Find Out

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/drones/are-delivery-drones-commercially-viable-iceland-is-about-to-find-out

An Icelandic startup called Aha is using a Chinese-made drone and an Israeli logistics system to deliver hot food, groceries, and electronics to households in Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik.

Safari’s “Siri Suggested” Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Sites And Fake News

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/safari-siri-search-conspiracy-fake-news