This is a very interesting article by Stephen Bonner, the Information Commissioner Ofiice’s Deputy Commissioner for Regulatory Supervision, discussing the ICO’s process in it’s decisions around Facewatch’s products that use live facial recognition (LFR). Blog: Balancing people’s privacy rights with the need to prevent crime | ICO It is worth …
ChatGPT and Privacy
I have been asked about ChatGPT in the last couple of talks I have given, with people asking about the cyber security implications and how they can make money out of it! Here are a couple of ChatGPT articles from the weekend – the first I thought was an April’s …
Is TikTok a security risk?
TikTok is still in the news – the fact that TikTok’s owners, ByteDance, are a Chinese based company subject to the Chinese laws that gives the government far reaching rights to access any company’s data is the issue. Here is the BBC’s take on the story: TikTok: Why do countries …
VPN are important for everyone’s privacy and security
Some governments do not like private citizen using VPNs to hide their online activities and protect their privacy. Here is an opinion piece from Ashley Belanger on Ars Technica discussing this: Fighting VPN criminalization should be Big Tech’s top priority, activists say | Ars Technica
ChatGPT history leak
A bug in ChatGPT has leaked user chat histories with the LLM AI (Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence) to other users. ChatGPT bug leaked users’ conversation histories – BBC Tech News This programming bug has been fixed but this story highlights other privacy issues when using this type of AI …
