“A private conversation was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list.”
“A staggering 95% of the facial recognition system’s ‘matches’ were actually wrongly identifying innocent people.”
Read more: https://www.tomshardware.co.uk/uk-police-facial-recognition-wrong,news-58429.html
“Data from more than 10,000 accounts were exposed. The unprotected servers were letting anybody see Apple user IDs, parents’ email addresses, unique phone IDs, users’ attempts to ‘find my iPhone’ and passwords stored in plaintext.”
“The teen has some options for paying off the millions. The court could authorize a supervising authority to create a payment plan.”
“The country has begun reversing military spending cuts and last year staged its biggest military exercises in nearly a quarter of a century, as well as voting to reintroduce conscription and unveiling joint plans with Denmark to counter Russian cyber-attacks and disinformation.”
“The current generation is getting further away from having enough children to replace itself.”
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-births-hit-a-30-year-low-fertility-rates/
“In February, the company insisted that all that stolen data didn’t include passport numbers. Except it did.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/business-and-finance/2018/5/10/17337260/equifax-data-breach-passports
“This fully electronic license, which is encoded into smartphones, will grant police officers the power to monitor citizens without even having to conduct routine traffic stops.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/article/e-drivers-licenses-enable-round-clock-surveillance
“Trump’s decision to scrap the nuclear deal was sharply criticised by European leaders, who have pledged to uphold their side of the agreement.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/13/us-sanctions-european-countries-iran-deal-donald-trump
“The biggest importer of Iranian oil is China. There are also efforts being made by China, the world’s second largest economy, to trade oil in yuan.”
Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/europe-pay-iran-euros-oil-abandoning-dollar-2681417
