Emotion recognition opening new privacy risks, and other privacy and security news

Privacy

Surveillance creeping ever further

• 27 Rights Groups Demand Zoom Abandon 'Invasive,' and 'Inherently Biased' Emotion Recognition Software

• Facial Recognition May Not Be Banned After All

Other Exposures

• Yik Yak Exposes Precise Locations, Unique IDs for Anonymous Users

• Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit

• ICE uses data brokers to bypass surveillance restrictions, report finds

• Amazon’s Alexa app now asks customers to scan their shopping receipts for cashback rewards

Twitter made a game to explain its privacy policy – are they recording “players’” performance?

Facebook is getting rid of some location-tracking features due to ‘low usage’ usage by whom?

There are ways to stem, but not stop, the flood:

• DuckDuckGo’s Chrome extension will block Google’s new ad targeting

• How to delete yourself from internet search results and hide your identity online

Security

NSA Swears It Won't Allow Backdoors in New Encryption Standards yeah, yeah, sure, sure!

Regulation

While the intent is broadly beneficial - Europe’s CSAM scanning plan unpicked the part that’s killing e-e encryption would have disastrous side effects: “War upon end-to-end encryption”: EU wants Big Tech to scan private messages

The intent for regulating big tech is moving forward on both sides of the Atlantic

• UK opts for slow reboot of Big Tech rules, pushes ahead on privacy ‘reforms’

• The EU AI Act: What you need to know

• Proposed Ohio legislation would criminalize AirTag stalking

• US lawmaker seeks to create a commission to oversee tech companies

Elon Musk gives Europe’s speech platform rules the thumbs up hmmmm, did he actually read it?