Topic: data retention policies
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Privacy Experts Warn Over YouTube's AI Selfie Age Checks
YouTube is testing an AI-powered age verification system that estimates users' ages by analyzing behavior patterns like search history and watch habits, raising privacy concerns. Flagged minors will face restrictions like disabled personalized ads, but critics highlight risks in the appeals proce...
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Flock CEO Urges Compromise Amid Growing Backlash
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley advocates for a national compromise that balances privacy with safety, arguing against prioritizing one issue exclusively over the other. He acknowledges recent abuses of the technology by law enforcement but maintains that his company helps expose such misconduct...
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Flock's new tool claims to spot police abuse, but details remain unclear
Flock introduced new policies and tools to curb misuse of its license plate reader systems, including reducing recommended data retention from 30 days to 7 days and adding an "Evidence Mode" for exceptional cases requiring longer storage. The company is mandating its "Audit Assistance" tool for a...
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Avec’s AI reads your email to catch due dates
Avec's new email app features a swipe-left gesture that auto-extracts deadlines from messages and resurfaces them on the due date, aiming to reduce inbox cognitive load. The company has not disclosed whether email scanning happens on-device or on servers, nor what data is retained, raising privac...
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OpenAI closes gap with Anthropic among business users
Ramp's data from 70,000+ U.S. businesses shows Anthropic has led OpenAI in market share since May (peaking at ~44% vs. ~40% in July), but OpenAI is currently growing faster in Q3 and closing the gap. The rivalry is volatile, with businesses switching back and forth based on new model releases,Ope...
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Ceva Logistics Data Breach Hits European Clients
A cyberattack on Ceva Logistics' European contract logistics division exposed sensitive customer data (names, addresses, phone numbers, and order details) from eight warehouses, affecting clients like Valve, Bol, De Bijenkorf, Ajax, and ING. Security experts warn that logistics firms are prime ta...
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Meta AI Wants Access to Your Unshared Camera Roll Photos
Meta is testing an AI feature that requests access to users' entire camera rolls to generate AI-enhanced content, analyzing unshared photos based on timestamps, locations, and objects. Critics raise concerns about privacy, as Meta's terms allow facial recognition, image modification, and potentia...
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SpaceXAI's Grok tool uploaded users' entire codebases to cloud
SpaceXAI's Grok Build AI coding tool was caught uploading users' entire codebases to Google Cloud without consent, including files it was instructed not to open and deleted secrets, a practice far beyond what comparable tools do. After security researchers published their findings, SpaceXAI disab...
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Waymo's Approach to Handling Protest Footage in LA
Recent protests in Los Angeles saw five Waymo self-driving vehicles vandalized, leading the company to suspend operations and sparking debates about surveillance and autonomous vehicle data in law enforcement. Waymo’s vehicles have extensive camera systems, raising privacy concerns, but the compa...
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Anthropic Warns Claude May Request User ID Verification
Anthropic's updated privacy policy, effective July 8, will require a small subset of flagged Claude users to upload government-issued IDs and selfies for identity verification, including a face geometry template that may be classified as biometric data in some states. The identity verification pr...
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Data Hoarding Risks: Financial & Security Dangers Exposed
Businesses face significant financial and security risks from data hoarding, as cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities created by retaining unnecessary data. Nearly half of enterprises store unneeded data, leading to breaches and leaks, with 86% of organizations experiencing breaches in the past ...
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Mistral CEO: Closed AI models give providers dangerous leverage over businesses
Arthur Mensch warns enterprise decision-makers that closed AI models create dangerous vendor lock-in by enforcing data retention policies and gaining visibility into sensitive internal operations. He argues that providers of proprietary systems can see, learn from, and leverage client data, makin...
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Facebook Using Private Photos to Train AI Without Consent
Facebook is accessing users' private, unpublished photos through a "cloud processing" feature, expanding its AI training practices beyond public images, with opt-in prompts that may be easily overlooked. The feature grants Meta broad rights to analyze personal details in private photos, but the c...
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OpenAI counters Anthropic with new customer privacy safeguards
OpenAI introduced Private Safety Processing, a privacy-focused abuse detection service that screens for violations across multiple sessions without storing client data, contrasting with Anthropic's 30-day data retention policy for its "covered models." Private Safety Processing expands on Zero Da...
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