Yale University’s Privacy Lab using research to call on developers and Google ‘for increased transparency into privacy and security practice’

More than three in four Android apps contain at least one third-party “tracker”, according to a new analysis of hundreds of apps.

Licht-Management, Verkehrsleittechnik, Laden von E-Fahrzeugen und Handys, Video-Überwachung mit Polizei-Verbindung, Erneuerbare Energie-Nutzung: Diese und weitere den Menschen dienenden Kriterien erfüllt das am Dienstag in St. Pölten vorgestellte "Smart Street"-Muster-Projekt der Initiative SSGM (Smart Safe & Green Mobility). Es wird mit zehn Unternehmen in Ebreichsdorf, Melk und Vitis umgesetzt.

Vor zwei Wochen hat das Unternehmen Bkav zur Vorsicht im Umgang mit Apples iPhone X und dem Gesichtsscanner Face ID geraten. Insbesondere bekannte Politiker, Chefs großer Firmen und bekannte Persönlichkeiten sollten demnach lieber auf dessen Verwendung verzichten. Anlass dafür war, dass es den Experten gelungen war, das System erfolgreich mit einer Maske auszutricksen.

Nun hat der Sicherheitschef des vietnamesischen Unternehmens, Ngo Tuan Anh, die Warnung verschärft. Denn man hat es geschafft, eine Maske um 200 Dollar an Materialkosten herzustellen, die noch zuverlässiger funktioniert.

Facebook is using artificial intelligence to scan users’ posts for signs they’re having suicidal thoughts. When it finds someone that could be in danger, the company flags the post to human moderators who respond by sending the user resources on mental health, or, in more urgent cases, contacting first-responders who can try to find the individual.

These thieves look like they know what they are doing. They are dressed head to toe in while coveralls and their faces appear to be obscured as well. They park their car in a suburban neighborhood and park next to a new Mercedes in a driveway. They calmly get out of their car and use a wireless device to get the Mercedes's key code from the fob inside the house. Then one of the men gets in the Mercedes and drives away. No broken glass, no alarms. Time elapsed - less than 60 seconds.

End-of-life care can be stressful for patients and their loved ones, but a new algorithm could help provide better care to people during their final months.

Essentially, it's machine-learning-powered software that can use the front-facing camera on a smartphone to pick out faces, identify anyone who isn't the owner, and if they are gazing at the screen, alert the user that there's someone behind them snooping on their texts or web browsing, and so on, all in real time.

Like the frog in the pot, it happened slowly. Over the course of my thirty-five year career, we’ve seen a steady shift from selling people things (hardware and software) to selling people to things - surveillance capitalism.

That all accelerated when the

Reporting into the April incident, the Ombudsman found there was "insufficient awareness" of journalist warrant requirements within the Professional Standards Unit (PRS) of the AFP; that a number of PRS officers did not "appear to fully appreciate their responsibilities when exercising metadata powers"; that the AFP relied on manual checks and corporate knowledge rather than proper processes; and that documentation was not effective in preventing the breach.

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas.

Strafen bis zu fünf Millionen Euro für Internetkonzerne, die Hassbotschaften und strafbare Falschnachrichten im Netz ignorieren

Die EU-Kommission will bargeldloses Bezahlen für Online-Geschäfte sicherer machen. Künftig sollen Kunden bei einem Einkauf im Internet zwei Authentifizierungsschritte durchlaufen, sieht der am Montag veröffentlichte Vorschlag der Brüsseler Behörde vor. Bisher ist in den meisten EU-Ländern, darunter auch Österreich, die Abfrage von nur einem Element – zumeist ein Passwort – verpflichtend.

Die britische Bürgerrechtsbewegung Statewatch hat einen Bericht der EU-Justizbehörde Eurojustveröffentlicht, der den aktuellen Stand der Vorratsdatenspeicherung in den EU-Mitgliedstaatenzusammenfasst. Obwohl der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) Anfang 2014 die anlasslose Datenspeicherung für rechtwidrig erklärt und diese Einschätzung in einem separaten Prozess Ende 2016 bekräftigt hatte, müssen Provider in vielen EU-Mitgliedsstaaten weiterhin auf die eine oder andere Art anlasslos Metadaten sammeln.

Das Pharmaunternehmen Bayer Austria hat einen Pilotversuch in zwei österreichischen Apotheken beendet. Dort wurden die Gesichter der Kunden mit Videokameras gescannt, daraus das Alter und Geschlecht ermittelt, um anschließend „zielgruppenrelevante Werbung“ einzublenden.

Nach dem vorprogrammierten Aufschrei hat der Konzern aber rasch eingesehen, „dass das Thema kontroversiell wahrgenommen wird“, wie Bayer auf seiner Webseite schreibt

Facebook has previously used artificial intelligence to surface suicide reporting options to friends of a troubled user. The technology helps detect users who might be in need of help and connects them to organizations and services that provide help. Facebook has now said that it’s going to use its artificial intelligence to detect suicidal posts before they’re even reported.

New legislation to be introduced by the Australian government will see consumers "owning" their data, granting them open access to their banking, energy, phone, and internet transactions.

Security specialists should focus less on scaring people and more on human’s “optimism bias” which can be harnessed to make people try harder. Subtle reminders and behavioural priming have been shown in experiments to be a way to get developers to produce more secure code, for example.

According to a recent series of experiments conducted at Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles, it was discovered (via The New York Times) that students using laptops to take notes during class were found to have a worse understanding of the lecture that was, versus those that didn’t. This was measured using a standardized test.

If you want to invade the average Australian's privacy, tell them it will prevent terror and you will be on your way

But the company has come under fire after a UK-based newspaper found adverts running alongside inappropriate videos of children and comments.