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BIOMETRICS

EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

Education ecosystems deeply aligned with AI – but what’s the impact on teaching, learning and research training?

Education ecosystems deeply aligned with AI – but what’s the impact on teaching, learning and research training?

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

ICE’s 5M Thomson Reuters deal adds data layer to identity targeting systems

ICE’s $125M Thomson Reuters deal adds data layer to identity targeting systems

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Tencent takes palmprint verification to standard smartphone cameras

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

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Category: #Chatbots

Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal

A lawyer used ChatGPT to generate briefs that included completely made-up witnesses and testimony while representing a man […]

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They’re Horrified

Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They’re Horrified

This piece contains references to eating disorders. If you or someone you know needs help, support is available. […]

Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations

We start this week with Joseph’s story about the people who are reading real ChatGPT users’ prompts and […]

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

OpenAI is hiring hundreds of contractors who read a massive stream of real users’ ChatGPT prompts, with the […]

ETHICS ▶︎ IDENTITY | PRIVACY | SECURITY | SURVEILLANCE

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

Posted on 10.01.2026
How the Feds Get Your Data

How the Feds Get Your Data

Posted on 10.01.2026
Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

Posted on 09.29.2026
Surveillance Finds a Way

Surveillance Finds a Way

Posted on 09.29.2026
Moldova plans national facial image database for police searches, European data exchange

Clearview AI operational at BIA months before new facial recognition procurement

Posted on 09.24.2026
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Posted on 09.24.2026

BUSINESS

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI
09.24.2026

CEOs Are Losing Control of AI

Peter Kuper With no slowdown from Trump’s administration. The post CEOs Are Losing Control of AI appeared first on The...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

09.24.2026
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

09.24.2026
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

09.17.2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

09.16.2026
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

CRIME

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
09.29.2026

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

The hackers behind the massive FBI breach told 404 Media on Monday they do not intend to publish the data.The...

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

09.24.2026
FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

09.24.2026
Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

09.17.2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

09.15.2026
Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable

USA

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
10.01.2026

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the Feds Get Your Data
10.01.2026

How the Feds Get Your Data

USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
10.01.2026

USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
09.29.2026

FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

US Social Security becomes major test of digital identity at scale

09.29.2026
DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

DHS expands RIVR testing to deepfakes, AI-generated IDs

09.24.2026
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting

09.24.2026
FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit

09.24.2026
Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

Civil liberties groups join lawsuit over Reno PD reliance on third-party LFR match

09.24.2026
ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

ICE builds nationwide ERO intelligence layer around biometric targeting operations

09.24.2026
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People

09.16.2026

WORLD

EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

EU study puts digital identity on research roadmap for next Horizon Europe

10.01.2026

The European Union is deciding where to place its next big technology bets. The European Commission has proposed €175 billion...

OpenAI and Microsoft Admit LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
09.17.2026

OpenAI and Microsoft Admit LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide
09.15.2026

AI Agent Platform Reinvents Spam, Floods Inboxes Worldwide

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability
09.09.2026

Australia shifts online safety debate from age checks to platform accountability


DIG DEEPER

AI Companies Begin to Align Around Slowdown
2 weeks ago

AI Companies Begin to Align Around Slowdown

Meta Just Settled for  Billion. Here’s What That Means for You.
3 weeks ago

Meta Just Settled for $18 Billion. Here’s What That Means for You.

How to deal with the data center dilemma
4 weeks ago

How to deal with the data center dilemma

Higgsfield Genjutsu Just Changed AI Video Forever
4 weeks ago

Higgsfield Genjutsu Just Changed AI Video Forever

VIDEODROME

ChatGPT-6 Astra: Almost Human or Just Hyped?
2 weeks ago

ChatGPT-6 Astra: Almost Human or Just Hyped?

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra vs Anthropic Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
4 weeks ago

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra vs Anthropic Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash


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