Your tone of voice tells as much about you as your face, and other privacy and security news
Privacy
Your voice creates as much privacy exposure as your face! Depressed? This algorithm can tell from the tone of your voice. Researchers are working to provide a modicum of protection:
Being tracked appears inescapable
for consumers: Tim Hortons app tracked donut lovers' locations without consent
and for workers: Internal Documents Show Amazon's Dystopian System for Tracking Workers Every Minute of Their Shifts
Despite many claims “we value your privacy”, your data is just too valuable: Behind Big Tech's big privacy heist: Deliberate obfuscation
SCOTUS To Biden: Is NSO Group a Foreign Agent? Looking for a way to escape responsibility
Reducing the data flowing into the cloud, Mozilla brings free, offline translation to Firefox
Google bans deepfake-generating AI from Colab Let’s hope they’ll enforce that ban!
Security
An actively exploited Microsoft 0-day flaw still doesn’t have a patchand
Microsoft won’t say if it will patch critical Windows vulnerability under exploit
A Bunch of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs Were Stolen (Again) contributing to a gigantic overall loss: Americans Have Lost $1 Billion to Crypto Scams Since Last Year, Feds Say
Regulations
Legislators Introduce Bipartisan Digital-Privacy Bill That May Not Be Doomedbut that seems to drive some people crazy: Our Country Moves Closer to a Federal Privacy Law, and I Move Closer To Losing My Mind
Google settles Photos facial recognition lawsuit for $100 million
New York State passes a right-to-repair bill
Odds and ends
Who’s liable for AI-generated lies?
Amazon is killing its Alexa-connected Cloud Cam, will replace customers’ dead devices with a Blink Mini – an encouraging approach to digital obsolescence!