strufe

strufe

@strufe.bsky.social

privacy prof at KIT and CeTI/TU Dresden

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Thank goodness we stopped China using the platform for political manipulation

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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In case of Tesla drivers, that's probably a good thing? 🤔

Serge Egelman@v0max.bsky.social

There’s also the issue of risk compensation: the presence of the “feature” is likely to lead to many more drivers intentionally driving off of cliffs to try this out.

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damn, MapQuest is coming back strong

MapQuest@mapquest.com

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Their strategy to slowly push this thought and then deflect responsibility from themselves to "The AI" or "rogue agents" (which, in fact, are attack tools like many others, which they don't manage to run safely).

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Meta's "Muse": "a sudden spike in reported KVM escapes" - in a device by the <s>most trustworthy company in the world</s>. What could possibly go wrong (good that they found *some* of the product defects/vulnerabilities before starting to sell).. yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/...

yro.slashdot.orgMeta Rushed To Fix Muse 'VM Escape' Vulnerability Soon Before Launch - SlashdotAn anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: In the immediate weeks before Muse's launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company's viral AI agent product, at least...

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This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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... their only reason was to demonstrate what BS Musk was trying to sell to gullible investors said people familiar with the matter...

kate conger@kateconger.com

Next week, Google is putting an experimental satellite into orbit that is the first step towards building A.I. data centers in space. This technology is all still very speculative, but tech leaders are increasingly adamant that this is the future of compute. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/t...

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Gerade habe ich das Urteil im Widerspruchsverfahren im einstweiligen Rechtsschutz Malta Gaming Authority ./. Wittmann erhalten. Gute Nachricht: Ich darf die MGA als „organized crime enablement scheme“ bezeichnen. Und ich darf Dokumente, die ich bei MGA extrahierte, für Berichterstattung verwenden.

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News hat Beschäftigte von österreichischen Inlands- und Militärgeheimdiensten identifiziert, ihre Wohnhäuser, Arzt- und Friseurbesuche - auf Basis eines kommerziell erwerbbaren Datensatzes aus der digitalen Werbung, der Standortdaten von 562.448 Smartphones in AT enthält: www.news.at/investigativ...

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Replying to @honkhase.de

"Nichts ist unveränderbar. Wir können das ändern, wir müssen es nur wollen und loslegen – gegen den Klimawandel, gegen Autokratien, für Resilienz, gegen Massenüberwachung. Jeder Schritt, den jemand in diesem Sinne tut, ist ein Schritt in die richtige Richtung..."

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Digitale Resilienz - IT-Experte Manuel Atug: "Wir haben alles aus der Hand gegeben" "MDR Wissen: Insgesamt klingt das trotzdem alles ziemlich düster. Haben Sie noch Hoffnung? Manuel Atug: Es gibt einen Grund, warum ich meine Hoffnung nicht verliere..." www.mdr.de/wissen/natur...

mdr.deIT-Experte Manuel Atug: "Wir haben alles aus der Hand gegeben"Manuel Atug ist IT-Sicherheitsberater sowie Gründer und Sprecher der AG KRITIS, eines Zusammenschlusses unabhängiger Fachleute für kritische Infrastrukturen. Im Netz ist er als "HonkHase" bekannt. Er ...

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Neun Monate lang habe ich der Glücksspielbehörde in Curaçao live bei der Arbeit zugeschaut. Ohne dass die Mitarbeiter davon wussten. Ich konnte sehen, wem illegale Online-Casinos gehören, wer sie finanziert und was die Behörde über ihre Geschäfte wusste. www.lilithwittmann.de/series/casin...

lilithwittmann.de#casinosecrets — Lilith WittmannDie geheimen Strukturen hinter illegalen Online-Casinos. Tausende interne Behördenakten zeigen erstmals im Detail, wer hinter einer milliardenschweren Glücksspielindustrie steht.

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"Use of personal data “in the context of AI” should automatically be lawful" Insanity. Total liability laundering

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app

"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...

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This worries me a lot. I got a bad vaccine when I was a baby. Bad because ineffective. But because of my autoimmune condition my doctors do not want me to get revaccinated. This leaves me vulnerable to measles.

Dorit Reiss@doritreiss.bsky.social

40-year-old woman in Pennsylvania dies of measles www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Never expected to agree with this agency, but here we go, there's a first to everything!

Wolfie Christl@wchr.bsky.social

Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Verfassungsschutz, refers to the sale of mobile app location data as a "grave privacy intrusion" and warns that foreign actors may use the data to approach or attack individuals in the security/defense industries: www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...

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Behörden überwachen regelmäßig Messenger-Kommunikation in WhatsApp, Telegram und Signal – ganz ohne Staatstrojaner. Das geht aus einem Dokument des Zollkriminalamts hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Ein Jura-Professor hält diese Messenger-Überwachung für rechtswidrig. netzpolitik.org/2026/messeng...

netzpolitik.orgImmer mehr Polizei überwacht Messenger wie WhatsAppBehörden überwachen regelmäßig Messenger-Kommunikation in WhatsApp, Telegram und Signal – ganz ohne Staatstrojaner. Das geht aus einem Dokument des Zollkriminalamts hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Ei...

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Comcast's new Wi-Fi Motion feature turns newer Xfinity routers into home motion sensors. Enabling it means Comcast can share the data it generates with third parties, without notifying you, for law enforcement requests, subpoenas, or legal disputes. Full story: https://bit.ly/46wcXcy

techcrunch.comComcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunchA new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.

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This is significant. The requirements listed in a recent procurement notice for ICE's renewed purchase of LexisNexis Risk's LexID and Accurint Virtual Crime Center products mention inferring identity from "behavioral indicators, device metadata, network signatures, commercial telemetry data".

Shawn Segal@shawnsegal.bsky.social

Yikes. ICE is asking LexisNexis to integrate with Palantir. This paragraph jumped out at me - they're looking to take "anonymized behavioral indicators" combine it with other data to "infer the identity of the end user." This sounds a lot like LexisNexis' ThreatMetrix, an anti-fraud product.

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Standing firmly doing nothing. It's been almost exactly one year since the previous batch of sanctions against the ICC yet the Commission still has no strategy for European independence, let alone any implementation. Leadership when?

Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

@eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu and I stand firmly with the International Criminal Court, President Tomoko Akane and the officials who uphold its mission. The ICC helps deliver justice to the victims of some of the world’s most horrific crimes.