Internet
US regulators on Friday welcomed a "historic" $5 billion settlement with Facebook over data privacy as the social network said it was already implementing the provisions of the deal.
Apr 25, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction site or enabling a smart home robot to interpret a user's gestures.
Nov 3, 2022
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Security
Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have discovered that widely used data storage devices with self-encrypting drives do not provide the expected level of data protection. A malicious expert with direct physical ...
Nov 7, 2018
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Internet
Google has announced that it is releasing the open-source version of a differential privacy library that helps power some of its own products.
Consumer & Gadgets
Despite attempts to anonymize user data, the fitness app Strava allows anyone to find personal information—including home addresses—about some users. The finding, which is detailed in a new study, raises significant privacy ...
Jun 7, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory medicine, known as P4, is the healthcare of the future. To both accelerate its adoption and maximize its potential, clinical data on large numbers of individuals must ...
Oct 11, 2021
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Internet
This week, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified about the tens of thousands of pages of internal documents she leaked exposing how Facebook prioritized profits over the public's safety and called on lawmakers to ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Computer Sciences
An algorithm developed by researchers from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and its University Hospital rechts der Isar, the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn is able to learn ...
Aug 25, 2022
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Internet
Three young Israelis formerly serving in military cyber units have figured out how to locate your digital footprint—and give you the tools to delete it.
May 1, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Pet owners are increasingly turning to technology for various pet care purposes such as feeding, health monitoring and activity and movement tracking. Much of this technology operates via devices and apps connected to the ...
