The French police are getting new surveillance powers:
French police should be able to spy on suspects by remotely activating the camera, microphone and GPS of their phones and...
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Google Is Using Its Vast Data Stores to Train AI
July 12 2023No surprise, but Google just changed its privacy policy to reflect broader uses of all the surveillance data it has captured over the years:
Research and development: Google uses...
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Privacy of Printing Services
July 11 2023The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing:
Ideally,...
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Wisconsin Governor Hacks the Veto Process
July 10 2023In my latest book, A Hacker’s Mind, I wrote about hacks as loophole exploiting. This is a great example: The Wisconsin governor used his line-item veto powers—supposedly...
Read moreFriday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Nebula
July 8 2023A mysterious squid-like cosmic cloud, this nebula is very faint, but also very large in planet Earth’s sky. In the image, composed with 30 hours of narrowband image...
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The AI Dividend
July 7 2023For four decades, Alaskans have opened their mailboxes to find checks waiting for them, their cut of the black gold beneath their feet. This is Alaska’s Permanent Fund, funded...
Read moreBelgian Tax Hack
July 6 2023Here’s a fascinating tax hack from Belgium (listen to the details here, episode #484 of “No Such Thing as a Fish,” at 28:00). Basically, it’s about a music festival on...
Read moreI have mixed feelings about this class-action lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming that it “scraped 300 billion words from the internet” without either registering as a data...
Read moreThe Password Game
July 4 2023Amusing parody of password rules. BoingBoing: For example, at a certain level, your password must include today’s Wordle answer. And then there’s rule #27: “At least 50% of your password must...
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