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Flock says its new tool will help identify police abuse, but hasn’t explained how it works

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The surveillance company announced it’s making a tool called “Audit Assistance” mandatory for all customers, claiming it’s already helped catch abuse. But the company has yet to explain how the tool works in detail, raising questions about its effectiveness.

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The fight over Flock and other ALPRs

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There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, use AI to identify and track vehicles based on their license plate number, make, model, color, and other info, networked together to track vehicles and people’s movements throughout the day and across […]

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Cloudflare and Trail of Bits now audit who Signal says you are talking to

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Here is the problem, and it is easier to state than most people expect. End-to-end encryption scrambles a message so only the recipient can read it. That works perfectly, provided you were handed the recipient’s real key. The app fetches that key from a server. If the server hands you a different key, the encryption […]

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Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’

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Surveillance tech company Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools to stalk ex-romantic partners and others. CEO Garrett Langley is delivering a mea culpa, and in an interview with The Verge, says he’s changed his mind on what responsibility Flock bears for how law enforcement uses […]

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Skan AI raises $63m to watch how office staff actually work, then build agents that copy them

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Skan AI announced $63m in funding on Wednesday, co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell Technologies Capital. What the money is buying is not a model. It is a record of how people at large companies actually do their jobs. Skan builds that record by watching them work. Avinash Misra, the co-founder and chief executive, reached […]

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Valve is warning Steam Machine buyers that scammers have their address

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Valve has emailed European customers who ordered a Steam Machine or a Steam Controller. A cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the firm that ships Valve hardware across Europe, took their delivery details. CNET’s Tyler Graham reported the warning on Monday. CEVA told Valve about the breach on 7 August, and Valve spent the following days working […]

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Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP. Researchers found three ways it doesn’t

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Apple’s Private Relay is supposed to hide your IP address. Researchers have found three ways it does not. The paid feature, part of an iCloud+ subscription, masks your real IP address while you browse in Safari. But three flaws in WebKit, Apple’s browser engine, quietly route some traffic around it. Security researchers Talal Haj Bakry […]

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TikTok kept a safety fix from 15 million US users “by design,” a sealed document shows. One was a teenager who died.

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In 2021, TikTok changed its algorithm to stop users being flooded with harmful content. But it did not give the safer version to everyone. It held 10% of US users on the old version, about 15 million people at the time. It wanted to test whether the safer feed was less addictive. That is according […]

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Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

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You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across all of your linked devices. You can also choose whether […]

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