privacy
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Privacy Fears Abound After Uber Eats Delivery Bot Shares Video Footage With LAPD
It’s only been about a year since Uber Eats began deploying food delivery robots throughout select parts of Los Angeles and, already, concerns have been raised that the squat little automatons could become a police surveillance tool. 404 Media reports that a company called Serve Robotics, which contracts out its delivery robots to Uber Eats,…
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Google’s Cookie-Killing Tech Is Now on Almost Every Chrome Browser
The company’s Privacy Sandbox tools are now on about 97% of Chrome user’s machines.
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Cult of the Dead Cow Wants to Save Internet Privacy with a New Encryption Protocol
The Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the most influential hacktivist groups on the web, announced plans Wednesday to launch an end-to-end encrypted protocol that can be used for app development. cDc is calling its new tool Veilid and, from the initial descriptions, it sounds pretty friggin’ cool. On the group’s website, cDc members…
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U.S. Legislators Vote Forward Bill That Would Turn Tech Platforms Into DEA Narcs
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted forward a bill that would force tech companies to report web users to the Drug Enforcement Agency if they suspected them of engaging in criminal drug activity. The controversial Cooper Davis Act, named so after a Kansas teenager who died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021, has…