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