Clubhouse vows to fix its platform after tool enabled audio chat leaks

Posted on 22/02/2021 by Engadget

Clubhouse's security woes are raising questions over its reliability as a private chat app. Just over a week has passed since its developers pledged to bolster safeguards over Chinese spying fears, and it's already suffered a lapse. Bloomberg...

Clubhouse is tightening security to address China spying fears

Posted on 13/02/2021 by Engadget

Clubhouse has been garnering hype through its high-profile discussions and a drop-in approach to audio chat, but there are also concerns the Chinese government might eavesdrop on nationals who got the app before it was banned in the country. The deve...

Amazon’s ‘Mentor’ tracking software has been screwing drivers for years

Posted on 12/02/2021 by Engadget

As it turns out, Amazon’s push to add AI-powered cameras to its fleet of delivery vehicles was just the latest in a long line of efforts to monitor employees on the road. Consider this: according to a new deep dive from CNBC, Amazon has for years use...

Amazon will use AI-powered cameras to monitor delivery vans and drivers

Posted on 04/02/2021 by Engadget

Amazon is planning to use AI-equipped cameras to surveil deliveries drivers on their routes, The Information has reported. The “Driveri” camera and software platform, supplied by a company called Netradyne (yep) can detect and warn drivers about road...

Microsoft will modify its Productivity Score tool after snooping criticism

Posted on 01/12/2020 by Engadget

Microsoft will modify the Productivity Score function of Microsoft 365 following privacy concerns. The company rolled out the tool in October to help companies understand how workers adopt and use technology. It provides scores out of 100 on several...

Mississippi police could access security camera feeds if residents opt in

Posted on 04/11/2020 by Engadget

Police in Jackson, Mississippi are running a pilot project in which they can access feeds from private surveillance cameras when a crime has been reported nearby. If the 45-day trial run proves successful and the city expands the program, residents a...

Twitter will keep fighting to share government data requests

Posted on 24/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Twitter’s years-long battle over government surveillance and transparency isn’t over yet. In 2014, Twitter sued the US government. The platform was hoping to publish the exact number of national security letters (NSLs) or FISA court orders it receive...

Iranian hackers’ Android malware spies on dissidents by stealing 2FA codes

Posted on 20/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s no secret that some countries have spied on their citizens through innocuous-looking apps, but one effort is more extensive than usual. Check Point Research has discovered (via ZDNet) that Rampant Kitten, an Iranian hacker group that has targete...

Hitting the books: How China uses AI to influence its 1.4 billion citizens

Posted on 12/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The battle for international hegemony didn’t stop with the fall of the Reichstag in 1945, or of the Soviet Union in 1991 — it has simply moved online. Today, states and their actors are waging a digital cold war with artificial intelligence systems a...

Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law or court orders with data collection

Posted on 05/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

If you were concerned that federal agents might play fast and loose with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's Section 702 while gathering data, your worries were well-founded. The Washington Post reports that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance...

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