https://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speech Douglas MacMillan & Greg Bensinger | The Washington Post | Source URL Two days before Google was set to publicly post more than 100,000 images of human chest X-rays, the tech giant got a call from the National Institutes of Health, which had provided the images: Some of them […]
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
iSpeech.org Search giant is amassing health records from Ascension facilities in 21 states; patients not yet informed Rob Copeland | The Wall Street Journal | Source URL Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of […]
Cops Now Using Warrants To Gain Access To DNA Services’ Entire Databases
iSpeech.org Tim Cushing | TechDirt | Source URL Cops have discovered a new source of useful third-party records: DNA databases. Millions of people have voluntarily handed over personal information to a number of services in exchange for info on medical markers or distant family members. Investigators are submitting DNA samples […]
Alexa and Google Home abused to eavesdrop and phish passwords
iSpeech Amazon- and Google-approved apps turned both voice-controlled devices into “smart spies.” Dan Goodin | ArsTechnica | Source URL By now, the privacy threats posed by Amazon Alexa and Google Home are common knowledge. Workers for both companies routinely listen to audio of users—recordings of which can be kept forever—and […]
Secret F.B.I. Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies
iSpeech.org Jennifer Valentino-DeVries | New York Times | Source URL The F.B.I. has used secret subpoenas to obtain personal data from far more companies than previously disclosed, newly released documents show. The requests, which the F.B.I. says are critical to its counterterrorism efforts, have raised privacy concerns for years but […]
Russia demands Tinder give user data to secret services
Text to Speech AP News | Source URL MOSCOW (AP) — Russia is requiring dating app Tinder to hand over data on its users — including messages — to the national intelligence agencies, part of the country’s widening crackdown on internet freedoms. The communications regulator said Monday that Tinder was […]
Amazon Installing Alexa in Apartments and Hotel Rooms. They Say 24/7 Data Collection Will Help Property Managers Better Manage and Serve Tenants
iSpeech.org B.N. Frank | Activist Post | Source URL More creepy “Surveillance Capitalism” courtesy of Amazon who isn’t hiding that it is putting millions of smart speakers in homes and hotels by “offering discounted hardware, customized software and new ways for property managers to harvest and use data.” Are there […]
Virginia judge declares Police Department’s warehousing of license plate data illegal
iSpeech.org Privacy SOS | Source URL A state judge in Virginia ruled earlier this month that license plate tracking data collected by automatic license plate reader (ALPR) systems are personally identifiable information, outlawing their storage when law enforcement has no good reason to collect and retain them. The impact of […]
NEC’s Global Facial Biometrics Program Will “Solve Health Problems”
Text to Speech Mass Private I | Source URL Last week, NEC Corporation and Nagasaki University announced that they are creating a global facial recognition program based on the U.N.’s slogan of eradicating poverty called, “Leave No One Behind.” Seizing on the chance to turn the U.N.’s slogan into a […]
Scooter Companies Split on Giving Real-Time Location Data to Los Angeles
https://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speechJoseph Cox | Motherboard-VICE | Source URL Uber, which is pushing back against the requests for real-time location data of its JUMP scooters, was granted a provisional, month-long permit, while other companies received a full-year license. Over the last few months, The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT), campaign groups, […]
MLB Going Full-Blown TSA: Teams Prepare To Scan Millions Of Fans Faces
iSpeech Mass Private I | Source URL I hope you enjoyed America’s favorite pastime because by the end of this year, nearly every Major League Baseball (MLB) team will be using facial recognition. Last year, their were only nine MLB teams using CLEAR’s facial recognition to spy on fans. But all of […]