For as little as $0.12 per file, information brokers within the US are promoting delicate non-public information about each active-duty navy members and veterans, together with their names, addresses, geolocation, web value, and faith, and details about their youngsters and well being situations.Â
In an unsettling examine printed right now, researchers from Duke College approached 12 information brokers and bought hundreds of information about American service members with minimal vetting.
The examine highlights the acute privateness and nationwide safety dangers created by information brokers. These corporations are a part of a shadowy multibillion-dollar business that collects, aggregates, buys, and sells information, practices which might be at the moment authorized within the US, exacerbating the erosion of non-public and client privateness. Learn the complete story.
—Tate Ryan-Mosley
The within scoop on watermarking and content material authentication
Final week, President Biden launched his government order on AI, a sweeping algorithm and pointers designed to enhance AI security and safety. The order put nice emphasis on watermarking and content material authentication instruments, which purpose to label content material to find out whether or not it was made by a machine or a human. The White Home is making a giant wager on these strategies as a option to struggle AI-generated misinformation.
The White Home is encouraging tech corporations to create new instruments to assist customers discern if audio and visible content material is AI-generated, and plans to work with the group behind the open-source web protocol generally known as the Coalition for Content material Provenance and Authenticity, or C2PA. Tate Ryan-Mosley, our senior tech coverage reporter, has written a useful information to C2PA, what it will possibly obtain, and, crucially, what it will possibly’t. Learn the complete story.
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