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The Connected Car as a Surveillance Platform
Researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports examined how much modern cars spy on their drivers — and who ends up with the data.
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Down
A researcher published a map of 300,000 Flock devices across the US, built from a leaked access path to the company's own database. Flock responded by demanding, through a contractor, that the site come down.
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Polars 2.0: streaming engine by default and the promised “boring” upgrade
The Polars developers have released the first release candidate of version 2.0. The headline change is the switch to a streaming engine by default, which promises a manyfold boost in performance.
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Microsoft Killed Free Nonprofit Licenses — and 171,000 Organizations Lost Their Data
A quiet edit to the terms of a grant program turned into a catastrophe for thousands of small nonprofits around the world: they lost their files in OneDrive with no way to recover them.
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Amazon Is Destroying Rare Books to Train AI
The company that started out selling books online is now buying up rare editions, slicing off their spines and scanning the pages — all to get fresh data for its language models.
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed Palantir's System
New procurement documents show that the U.S. immigration agency intends to extend its access to LexisNexis data troves and feed them into Palantir platforms to hunt for deportation targets.
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California launches DROP: one request wipes your data from hundreds of brokers
Since August 1, registered data brokers have been required to honor requests from California residents submitted through DROP, a single platform. Over the past six months, roughly 350,000 people have signed up for the service.