[ad_1] Unsealed court documents have revealed that Facebook had a secretive “Project Ghostbusters” that spied on its users’ Snapchat traffic Recovered emails suggest that the spying started in 2016 after Facebook recognized the growth potential of Snapchat Later, they also spied on Amazon and YouTube Facebook is in trouble for snooping on users’ Snapchat traffic. … Read more
[ad_1] 41 State Attorney Generals have penned a letter to Meta about the growing number of account takeover cases asking it to resolve the issue. The number of complaints has increased by 1,000% since 2019 in New York. For states like Vermont, North Carolina, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, the number has increased by 250% in the … Read more
[ad_1] Microsoft has announced plans to invest $2.1 billion over the next two years to significantly scale up its artificial intelligence (AI) development and cloud computing capacities in Spain. The major expansion was revealed by Microsoft’s Vice Chair and President Brad Smith across social media channels. I’m thrilled to announce that we will expand our … Read more
[ad_1] On Friday, 20 tech companies vowed to prevent AI from interfering with the upcoming elections this year. These companies together signed an accord known as The Tech Accord to Combat Deceptive Use of AI in 2024 Elections at the Munich Security Conference. The group includes companies that are developing AI tools such as OpenAI, … Read more
[ad_1] On Friday, a group of 28 organizations including the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, and Wikimedia Europe urged the privacy watchdog—the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) —to reject Meta’s paid ad-free service. If Meta’s subscriptions are allowed, other companies might soon pick up these schemes to get more money … Read more
[ad_1] Meta on Tuesday announced that it is working on developing tools that would identify images produced synthetically by generative AI. The company is currently working with industry partners to determine the technical standards for the identification of images, and eventually videos generated by generative AI tools. The social media giant also revealed plans to … Read more