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Privacy professionals need to be aware of tech abuse

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iapp, Simson Garfinkel, CIPP/US: “Features designed to improve privacy and protect children in online services, apps and networked devices also make it easier for abusers to maintain control in abusive relationships.  “Ever since caller ID and GPS became part of our lives, we’ve known that digital technologies can be used by abusers to harm or… Continue Reading

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 7, 2023

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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 7, 2023 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading

Hackers selling data of millions lifted from 23andMe’s genetic database

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The Verge: “23andMe posted a blog yesterday saying that data from users of its genetic testing and analysis platform has been circulating on dark web forums after hackers used recycled logins to gain access to get into accounts. BleepingComputer wrote on Thursday that a hacker leaked what they said was “1 million lines of data”… Continue Reading

A primer on some key issues in U.S. v. Google

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An ongoing case, U.S. v. Google, promises to be the most significant technology antitrust trial in the U.S. in decades. The case involves allegations that Google violated a prohibition on using exclusionary practices to maintain a monopoly under the Sherman Act. These allegations center on Google’s browser agreements with Apple and Mozilla, under which Google… Continue Reading

Your Online Account May Have Been Breached? Don’t Just Sit There. Do Something.

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WSJ via MSN: “How do consumers respond when their online accounts are exposed to hackers? Many of them simply don’t. Data breaches at major firms have become all too common, with more than 110 million user accounts exposed in just the second quarter of 2023. Yet our research found that nearly two-thirds of U.S. consumers… Continue Reading

GAO Report Shows Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training

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EFF: “…The government watchdog issued yet another report – Facial Recognition Services: Federal Law Enforcement Agencies Should Take Actions to Implement Training, and Policies for Civil Liberties this month about the dangerously inadequate and nonexistent rules for how federal agencies use face recognition, underlining what we’ve already known: the government cannot be trusted with this flawed… Continue Reading

Can Sensitive Information Be Deleted From LLMs?

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Can Sensitive Information Be Deleted From LLMs? Objectives for Defending Against Extraction Attacks. Vaidehi Patil, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal: “Pretrained language models sometimes possess knowledge that we do not wish them to, including memorized personal information and knowledge that could be used to harm people. They can also output toxic or harmful text. To mitigate… Continue Reading

September 2023 Issue of LLRX

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LLRX Articles and Columns for September 2023 Adding a ‘Group Advisory Layer’ to Your Use of Generative AI Tools Through Structured Prompting: The G-A-L Method – The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in legal research signifies a transformative shift – Dennis Kennedy Keeping Up With Generative AI in the Law – Rebecca Fordon AI in… Continue Reading