California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people
The California state bill would have penalized people who secretly recorded people in public with wearables equipped with cameras and microphones.
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44,000 object to Palantir’s NHS data platform, the Guardian reports
More than 44,000 people have filed legal objections to stop the NHS’s Federated Data Platform handling their health records. The platform runs on Palantir software. The campaign asks NHS England to stop the platform sharing, storing or using their data, the Guardian reported on Wednesday. The objections rely on article 21 of the UK GDPR, […]
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Meta denies its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages
Meta has denied that its Muse AI agent read a journalist’s private messages without his permission. Muse can only read Messages on a Mac if the user turns on two separate settings. Meta’s communications chief Andy Stone said so in a post on X on Wednesday. “It can’t read your Messages unless you do this,” […]
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America.gov, the US government’s AI chatbot, contradicted Trump on day one
The White House launched America.gov on Tuesday, an AI chatbot meant to be a single front door to federal services. On its first day, it contradicted President Donald Trump. Within hours, some of its answers had changed. Trump signed an executive order at the launch in Washington to set up the site. The General Services […]
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Amazon customers can’t opt out of driver camera glasses, Bloomberg reports
Amazon’s delivery drivers will soon wear smart glasses that take pictures “almost constantly” on foot, Bloomberg Opinion columnist Dave Lee reported on Wednesday. A single shift could produce several thousand images of whatever the driver sees, including private property. Customers will have no way to opt out, see the images or ask for them to […]
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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver’s smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they’re in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take “several thousand captures in a single driver’s typical shift,” which Amazon plans to upload to its AI […]
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Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
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OpenAI launches dots, always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers
OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday. They run on GPT-6 Astra and are rolling out in ChatGPT to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets. Each dot […]
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Copilot users’ photos reach human reviewers uncensored, 404 Media reports
Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot see the photos users upload for AI editing, with faces uncensored, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on Monday. They also see the prompts users type, and many of those requests are sexual, according to internal documents the outlet obtained. “Faces are always uncensored, and many of the […]
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Moca Chain goes live as AI agents need a way to prove who they are
AI agents are no longer just answering questions. They’re shopping, booking trips, signing up for services, and increasingly acting on their users’ behalf. However, when an agent shows up at a website or app, how does the business know who it’s working for, and what it’s actually allowed to do? Moca Network, the digital identity […]
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