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The IRS Needs to Stop Using ID.me’s Face Recognition, Privacy Experts Warn
Privacy groups are demanding transparency following news that ID.me — the biometric identity verification system used by the IRS and over 27 states — has failed to be entirely transparent in how its facial recognition technology works.
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NASA Denies It Used the Doomed Log4j in Its Mars Ingenuity Helicopter
Did log4j, the buggy software utility from hell, get NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter hacked? The answer is: Nope — according to NASA, it doesn’t even use the doomed tool.
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Founder of Massive Robo-Text Service Accused of Running Secret Spying Operation: Report
One of the top executives of a gargantuan texting contractor has been accused of running a secret surveillance business, the likes of which sold access to the company’s partner networks so that governments could spy on various users.
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Your Facebook News Feed Sucks Because That’s How Advertisers Like It
At a time when American’s trust in the news media is plummeting to record lows, one recent Pew poll reported that about a third of U.S. adults say they regularly get their news fix from Facebook’s feeds — even if their own trust in Facebook itself is plummeting to new lows for, oh, whatever reason.…