Major tech companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Twitter, Amazon, and Microsoft amass vast troves of personal data from users, including contact details, location, browsing history, interests, and even sensitive information like work, income, race, religion, and political views, raising significant privacy worries.
Perplexity CEO reveals the company's new Comet browser will track users' entire online activity to create detailed profiles for selling hyper-personalized ads, launching in May alongside partnerships with Motorola and potential Samsung deals to challenge Google's dominance.
Texas proposes groundbreaking legislation to regulate AI development and use, mandating disclosure, prohibiting manipulation and social scoring, establishing a testing sandbox and oversight council to ensure ethical and responsible AI that protects citizens while fostering innovation.
Meta is leveraging AI technology to safeguard minors on Instagram by automatically adjusting account settings to age-appropriate restrictions if AI detects a user is underage but has an adult account, while allowing users to modify settings if the AI assessment is incorrect.
Instagram is employing AI technology to detect underage users who misrepresented their age, automatically enrolling them into a restricted 'Teen Account' with enhanced safeguards, while allowing users to correct any age misidentification errors.
The Department of Homeland Security is consolidating data from various agencies into a master database to enable real-time surveillance and tracking of undocumented immigrants, raising serious privacy concerns and fears of information being weaponized against vulnerable groups.
ChatGPT's new image analysis capabilities, while powerful, raise privacy concerns as users can potentially identify locations from photos, enabling reverse location tracking and doxxing, prompting OpenAI to implement safeguards against abuse.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.
AI-driven malicious bots now dominate the internet for the first time, accounting for 51% of all web traffic while launching increasingly sophisticated attacks on APIs and user accounts with 40% more account takeovers than last year.
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI platform accused of data theft, spreading propaganda, and violating U.S. export controls by covertly funneling American user data to the CCP and training on material unlawfully obtained from U.S. AI models, has drawn scrutiny from Congress over Nvidia chip sales.