Uber Hit With Nearly $1 Billion Fine After Algorithms Suspended Drivers Without Enough Human Oversight Uber has been hit with an €825 million ($966 million) privacy fine after Dutch regulators found that automated systems were used to suspend drivers in ways that violated their rights under Europe’s data protection laws. The decision could have consequences […]
Iran-Linked Hackers Shut Down UK Power Plant for Four Days in Alarming Cyberattack A small British power plant was forced offline for four days after an alleged cyberattack linked to Iran, marking a disturbing new chapter in the growing threat against critical infrastructure. A cyberattack reportedly linked to Iranian hackers has successfully disrupted a power-generating […]
Police Want to Scan Faces in Public, Now Children Are Caught in the Facial Recognition Debate Privacy and children’s rights groups are pushing back against plans to expand live facial recognition by police, warning that innocent people could be subjected to biometric surveillance without clear rules protecting them. A growing coalition of civil liberties, human […]
Nonprofits Say Microsoft Cut Off Their Data After Free Licenses Ended Some nonprofit organizations say they have lost access to critical Microsoft 365 data after the tech giant retired a long-standing free software grant program, triggering fresh concerns about depending entirely on cloud platforms. For years, nonprofit organizations have relied on Microsoft’s donation and grant […]
Android’s New Content Scanning API Raises Privacy Fears as Google Opens SafetyCore to More Apps Google is giving Android developers access to a powerful new content-classification system, but privacy advocates are asking an uncomfortable question: how much of your personal content could apps eventually scan? Android users are already dealing with Google’s controversial Android System […]
