The FBI has warned that public USB chargers at airports and other locations may pose a risk to travelers due to "juice jacking" – a hacking technique where cybercriminals infect USB ports with malicious software. * To avoid becoming a victim, the agency recommends bringing your own USB cord and charger and...
The use of facial recognition to monitor employees in the workplace is increasing. The latest to join the ranks is the Japanese camera manufacturing company Canon. The company has installed biometric ‘smile recognition’ technology for facial scanning at the Beijing headquarters of its Chinese subsidiary, Canon Information Technology. Employees are...
Three art museums in Italy have begun to use AI-enabled camera systems to read visitors’ facial expressions and determine which artworks are most popular. The facial recognition technology, visible to visitors as cameras on the walls with disclaimers, is used at museums in Rome, Bologna, and Parma. The tech can...
Microsoft president Brad Smith suggested that unregulated AI like facial recognition could result in widespread mass surveillance similar to the premise of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 if more laws aren’t established to protect people. Smith shared his thoughts on the subject while speaking to BBC Panorama on...
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal claims that a series of Instagram ads it tried to run got the company banned from Facebook’s ad platform. The highly targeted and detailed ads aimed to show users the enormous amount of data Instagram and its parent company Facebook collect about them and how...
An AI service called Deep Nostalgia developed by MyHeritage brings photos to life by animating faces using deepfake technology. The videos created using the service have gone viral on social media. MyHeritage says that more than 1 million photos have been animated within 48 hours using Deep Nostalgia. The users...
