Anker offered Eufy camera owners $2 per video for AI training
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
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Apple pulls ICEBlock from the App Store
Apple has removed the “Waze but for ICE sightings” app ICEBlock from its App Store, as reported previously by Business Insider. A post from its developer relayed Apple’s App Review message about the ban, saying, “We just received a message from Apple’s App Review that #ICEBlock has been removed from the App Store due to […]
Anker offered to pay Eufy camera owners to share videos for training its AI
Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
Adam Mosseri’s ‘we’re totally not spying on you’ video is raising a lot of questions
Today, the same day that Meta announced that it will soon use your AI chats to personalize the ads it shows you, Instagram head Adam Mosseri made a “myth busting” video attempting to set the record straight on a persistent rumor about Meta: “I swear, we do not listen to your microphone,” he says. Meta’s […]
The UK’s war on Apple encryption is back
The UK government is reportedly once again demanding that Apple provide it with backdoor access to encrypted iCloud user data, following claims that the effort had been abandoned in August. The Financial Times reports that a new technical capability notice (TCN) was issued by the UK Home Office in early September, this time specifically targeting […]
UK government tries again to access encrypted Apple customer data: report
The U.K. Home Office is seeking access to Apple users’ encrypted iCloud backups for a second time, after an earlier attempt failed earlier this year.
Tile’s lack of encryption could make tracker owners vulnerable to stalking
Security researchers are shining the spotlight on a serious security vulnerability that could enable stalkers to track victims using their own Tile tags, as well as other unwanted violations of security and privacy. Research outlined by Wired shows that Tile’s anti-theft mode, which makes its trackers “invisible” on the Tile network, counteracts measures to prevent […]
TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Age verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This Battlefield startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.
Microsoft cuts cloud services to Israeli military unit over Palestinian surveillance
The investigation was sparked by a story in The Guardian that reported that Unit 8200, the elite Israel military intelligence unit, was using Azure cloud storage to house data on phone calls obtained through the surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.