Brief highlight of the reasons why we ought to be concerned about both sides of the political aisle coming together over federal facial recognition regulation.

Hackers launched a cyber attack on the government of Lake City, Florida, disabling the city's computer systems for several days. After working with the FBI they reluctantly paid the ransom. This is just one of a series of ransomware attacks in Florida.

Discusses the complexity behind "reasonable expectation of privacy" after Duke, Stanford, and Yale universities were discovered to be creating databases off surveillance footage of students outdoors, without their knowledge, and made part of a permanent dataset.

Though Rekognition has had a seemingly high success rate, it frequently misgenders trans, queer, and non-binary faces, showing how bias can be baked into facial recognition systems.

Google and the University of Chicago Medical Centre are being sued after hundreds of thousands of patient records were shared without removing date stamps or doctors notes, making it possible for Google to determine the identities of each patient. The project is meant to improve predictive analysis in medicine, but it is being argued that the unauthorized disclosure violates HIPAA.

How Yelp is replacing restaurant's real phone numbers with numbers owned by Grubhub so they can record calls and can charge a 15-20% referral fee, unbeknownst to restaurant owners. As of May 2020, NYC has passed a bill to end this practice.

A growing number of real-world researchers and companies are developing tools designed for exactly this task. And, despite what you might initially fear, the results are really promising. The article discusses the benefits of these robots, including caregiving providing more independence, as well as the drawbacks.

Research institutes and companies are rushing to develop care robots for a growing number of senior citizens suffering from dementia to ease the burden on family members who take care of them.

Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. The article lists ways to increase your privacy.