Italy has banned the use of facial recognition technology and "smart glasses," except when used in judicial investigations or the fight against crime.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2022
Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil said around 100 officers of the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Signals Directorate would participate in the...Reuters From ACM News | November 15, 2022
Anonymous Internet user "ChinaDan" posted on hacker forum Breach Forums last week offering to sell the data for 10 bitcoin, worth about $200,000.
Reuters From ACM News | July 6, 2022
Bank depositors in China said a protest in Henan province was halted by authorities using COVID surveillance infrastructure to turn health code applications red...Reuters From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2022
Chinese social media application Weibo will publish users' Internet Protocol addresses on their account pages and when they post comments, in order to rein in...Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2022
U.S. officials said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had seized control of thousands of routers and firewall appliances from Russian hackers.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 11, 2022
Authentication services provider Okta reported a hacker breach that may have impacted some of its customers.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | March 24, 2022
Seoul-based news site NK Pro reported that log files and network records showed Websites on North Korean Web domains were largely unreachable.
Reuters From ACM News | January 26, 2022
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has asked major software companies and developers to discuss ways to improve digital security, as hacks against...Reuters From ACM TechNews | December 27, 2021
Microsoft warns the Russia-based agency Nobelium has targeted hundreds of U.S. companies and organizations, in its latest cyberattack.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | October 27, 2021
An Apple analysis of the threats of side-loading warned of malicious apps migrating to third-party stores and infecting consumer devices.
Reuters From ACM News | October 14, 2021
Italian data protection authority Garante has asked Facebook to provide it with clarifications related to its newly launched smart glasses, to determine their compliance...Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 15, 2021
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has interceded in the troubled launch of a bitcoin payments application.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | September 13, 2021
An open letter from more than 90 policy and rights groups worldwide calls on Apple to drop a plan to scan children's messages for nudity and adults' phones for...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 24, 2021
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has asked for a report on using artificial intelligence to analyze prison inmates' phone calls to help prevent violent crime...Reuters From ACM TechNews | August 11, 2021
Officials in the town of Sitges in northeastern Spain are using drones for real-time crowd monitoring along 18 km of beach as COVID-19 cases rise.
Reuters From ACM TechNews | July 19, 2021
The EU Commission is expected to award a contract soon for a central system to verify "digital green passes" for those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19...Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 29, 2021
Several U.S. banks are rolling out artificial intelligence systems to analyze customer preferences, monitor employees, and detect suspicious activity near ATMs....Reuters From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2021