Privacy is a nice concept but it doesn’t seem to exist anymore. A federal judge ruled this week that a lawsuit against Norfolk, Virginia can move forward. The city currently has 172 license plate readers and plans to add 65 more cameras around the city. The cameras record all vehicles within 150 feet of any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is an alarming headline. But not a big surprise when many state privacy laws have been written by lobbyists and herded through passage by legislators on their payroll. Well, technically, they would call them campaign contributions but you get the idea. The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the US Public Interest Research Group […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Conceptually, that is hard to argue with. But, as businesses of all sizes and government agencies at all levels are being hacked daily, is the ‘less is more’ philosophy correct. One thing she went after is CISA’s work on misinformation and disinformation. This is a frequent complaint of some right wingers and to some extent, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok for Sale? Maybe! Mark Cuban says the number being floated around is more than $300 billion. It is unclear if this is for TikTok US or TikTok worldwide. And maybe Musk might buy it. Given how well he did with his purchase of Twitter, if he does buy it for $300 billion, Cuban […]
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