Tag: #privacy

California’s 2026 tech-policy session yields wins on workplace AI and youth online laws, privacy bills falter

Lawmakers approved workplace-AI limits and youth online protections, but vetoes, stalled measures and legal challenges left several privacy proposals undone.

#california, #ai, #privacy, #youth, #socialmedia

Civil-rights groups ask Ninth Circuit to bar 'tower-dump' warrants in test of reverse-location searches

ACLU and EFF urged the Ninth Circuit to declare tower-dump warrants unconstitutional or sharply limit their use in a criminal case tied to two murders.

#civilliberties, #fourthamendment, #towerdump, #privacy, #geofence

Perseus offers open full-stack system for faster homomorphic encrypted AI inference

A new open-source system, Perseus, claims multi-fold speedups for homomorphic encrypted model inference and provides reproducible code and benchmarks.

#ai, #homomorphicencryption, #privacy, #encryptedinference

Appeals courts clear way for Florida, Georgia to enforce social‑media age and consent laws

Federal appeals rulings let Florida and Georgia start enforcing laws restricting accounts for under‑16s while legal challenges continue.

#socialmedia, #children, #privacy, #firstamendment

Judge Rules OPM Unlawfully Gave DOGE Agents Broad Access to Personnel Records

A federal judge found OPM unlawfully granted DOGE agents sweeping access to systems holding PII on tens of millions of federal employees, retirees and applicants.

#privacy, #opm, #doge, #court

DHS watchdog: vendors could extract passenger ID images from TSA facial-recognition system

An OIG audit found vendors could extract passport and driver’s license images during maintenance of TSA’s CAT‑2 facial‑recognition system; TSA agreed to fixes.

#tsa, #privacy, #biometrics, #facialrecognition

EFF, ACLU Say Marin Sheriff Shared License-Plate Data With Out-of-State and Federal Agencies

EFF and ACLU say Marin County shared automated license-plate data with out-of-state and federal agencies in late 2024, possibly breaching California law and a 2022 settlement.

#privacy, #alpr, #marincounty, #flocksafety

San Francisco to Tighten Access to License-Plate Reader Data, Critics Say Changes Don’t Go Far Enough

Mayor Lurie limits vendor access to Flock plate-reader data to 30 days and moves older records to city servers — privacy groups say warrants and firmer deletion are needed.

#sanfrancisco, #privacy, #surveillance, #alpr

Study: Trained medical AI models can hide and later reconstruct patient scans

A MICCAI-accepted paper shows insiders could embed compressed medical scans in exported AI model weights, creating a privacy blind spot for hospitals.

#ai, #medicalimaging, #privacy, #hipaa

Apple begins beta rollout of rebuilt Siri and Apple Intelligence, with hardware limits and EU iPhone/iPad delay

Apple begins beta rollout of rebuilt Siri and Apple Intelligence in English, with hardware restrictions, daily caps and an EU iPhone/iPad delay under the Digital Markets Act.

$AAPL, #apple, #siri, #ai, #privacy

Detokenization Cache Attack Can Reconstruct Local LLM Outputs, Researchers Warn

Researchers show locally run LLM outputs can be reconstructed from CPU cache activity during detokenization, raising privacy concerns for on-device AI.

#security, #llm, #sidechannel, #privacy

Judge Approves Meta Settlement That Mandates Age Checks, Teen Limits and Years of Audits

Federal judge approved a ~$17bn Meta settlement that mandates age-assurance checks, default teen limits, parental controls and years of audits.

#meta, #privacy, #teens, #settlement

Meta Settlement Would Require Age-Verification Across Platforms, EFF Warns of Privacy Tradeoffs

A proposed Meta settlement with 52 state attorneys general would enforce age-assurance across its services, raising privacy concerns, the EFF says.

$META, #meta, #privacy, #coppa, #socialmedia, #teensafety

Amazon-owned Ring makes 'TAKE' default worldwide, will delete keys after 24 hours

Ring will roll out TAKE (Throw Away the Key Encryption) as the default starting in September, temporarily storing decryption keys for 24 hours.

$AMZN, #ring, #encryption, #privacy, #amazon

Carnegie Mellon Preprint Finds Reinforcement Learning on Benign Facts Can Amplify LLM Leakage of Memorized Emails

A CMU preprint shows reinforcement learning on benign factual Q&A can make models more likely to reveal memorized Enron email addresses.

#ai, #privacy, #llm, #machine-learning