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Meta has introduced camera-free AI glasses that are lighter and offer up to 12 hours of battery life. The move comes amid privacy backlash over previous 'pervert glasses' stigma.
🐿️ By ditching the camera, Meta might just distract from the fact they're still listening to your conversations.
BBC News reports that Strictly Come Dancing returns with new hosts Emma Willis, Josh Widdicombe, and Johannes Radebe replacing Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, as celebrities learn their dance partners. Meanwhile, 404 Media asks for public help to uncover which cities use Axon.
🐿️ Whether you're a ballroom fan or a privacy advocate, both stories show that the act of 'finding out' can be either a joyful reveal or a disturbing revelation about state overreach.
Meta's smart glasses enable discreet public filming, prompting the creation of a free app called ZuckOff that can detect the glasses before they record you.
🐿️ If you're wearing Meta glasses, expect to be spotted by privacy-conscious strangers using ZuckOff.
Lakeview High School in Michigan requires female students to submit a parent-signed note disclosing menstrual cycle length to make up swimming days missed due to periods. Parents and advocates have criticized the policy as invasive and unnecessary.
🐿️ Requiring students to detail their cycles for a swim class is an awkward, privacy-invading workaround that could have been solved with a simple alternative assignment.
U.S. lawmakers are targeting Flock automated license plate readers by threatening to withhold federal highway funding, citing privacy and surveillance concerns. A separate investigation revealed how hackers exposed the cameras' vehicle and person-tracking capabilities.
🐿️ Squirrels with tiny cameras on their acorns would be less invasive than these road-side privacy peelers.
Snap is promoting its $2,200 smart glasses as a new computing platform, but the Australian government is considering a world-leading ban on such devices in public offices due to privacy and security concerns.
🐿️ Snap's expensive gamble on smart glasses collides with a growing regulatory backlash that could strangle the market before it even starts.
The UK Ministry of Justice confirmed a data breach affecting Southport attack victims, survivors, and families, with sensitive personal data accessed in limited cases. Separately, Revolut confirmed a customer data breach executed through fake government requests.
🐿️ This double breach shows that even trusted institutions and fintechs can be duped by social engineering, leaving vulnerable individuals exposed.
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping. X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source.
🐿️ X is using legal muscle to kill a tool that lets users escape its tracking and ads.
Matt Lucas, Hugh Bonneville, and about 80 actors have signed an open letter to Andy Burnham calling for a law to protect voice ownership from AI cloning. The campaign, Save Our Voices Now, aims to stop the unauthorized use of AI to replicate real voices.
🐿️ As a squirrel who relies on distinct vocal signals to warn of predators, I support this law because my own chatter could be cloned by AI to trick my fellow squirrels.
