FedEx is using AI car surveillance technology made by Flock Safety, a $4 billion startup. Its own private police force is accessing local cops’ Flock camera feeds too.
Keith Enright is leaving Google after 13 years as the tech giant restructures its privacy and compliance teams. Matthew Bye, director of competition law, is also departing.
Italy-based surveillance company Leonardo says its tool creates a fingerprint of drivers and passengers by scanning for anything that emits a signal from their car, from smartphones to library books.
$50 billion retail behemoth Simon Property has granted police access to its AI car surveillance feeds via startup Flock Safety, monitoring vehicles visiting its malls, public records requests reveal.
Researchers uncover 20 vulnerabilities affecting a range of Xiaomi apps that ship on the Chinese giant’s smartphones. Users have been encouraged to update their phones.
Axon says its AI will help get more police out of the office and on the streets. Critics worry it’ll make cops lazy and potentially introduce errors into crucial evidence.
The company removed more than 100 YouTube videos after Forbes found the platform was promoting AI nudifiers used by school bullies and a convicted pedophile.
Sanaz Yashar spent 15 years in Israel’s vaunted Unit 8200 intelligence division after immigrating from Iran. Now she’s got billionaires backing her to be cyber’s next big thing.
Cyberattacks target AI compute power to mine cryptocurrency using a vulnerability in popular open source software called Ray, according to researchers at Oligo Security.
The federal government asked Google to turn over information on anyone who viewed multiple YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional.
A Californian family is at the centre of a human smuggling case alleging they used a fake Amazon delivery truck to transport undocumented immigrants around the U.S.
Flock became a law enforcement juggernaut with its AI-powered license plate readers. But officials in multiple states told Forbes Flock had violated state laws designed to guarantee driver safety.
After Google made “geofence” data warrants on its users technically infeasible, feds are still making similar demands on telecoms giants, even if the location data is, by law enforcement’s own admission, often inaccurate.
Nearly 1,000 fake profiles with AI-generated images have been posing as protesters, journalists and young women, Meta warns, and they appeared to be targeted at reporters and political activists.
Despite cases of abuse, spy cams remain for sale across major online retailers. In some cases, the sellers explicitly use racy images to sell the surveillance devices.
Wisconsin man showed off acid-spray guns and discussed weaponizing chlorine gas, saying they should be used on police, according to the FBI. When he was arrested he was found with a cache of homemade grenades.
Half of internal moderators and a third of X’s trust and safety team globally were fired after Musk’s arrival, Australia’s online safety regulator says.
A Moscow legal battle strongly indicates that phone forensics tools used by both the FBI and FSB are exploiting security loopholes in Apple’s operating system.