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Yesterday OIPC Legal Counsel Ethan Plato participated in a panel at the Victoria International Privacy and Security Summit #VIPSS entitled "Children's Privacy and Safety Regulation Policy: Canada's Development of a Children's Privacy Network." #privacy #security

05.03.2026 19:02 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A table covered with an orange cloth displays "pb cambridge" and "Participatory Budgeting" with a website link, pb.cambridgema.gov. Two individuals sit behind the table with clipboards and pamphlets. They are in a room with large windows, modern furniture, and visible trees outside.

🎉 PB12 is here! 🎉

🗳️ Cambridge residents ages 12+ can vote on projects to improve our city from March 5–15, 2026. Voting is now open! 🤝💭

Make your voice heard — vote today! ✅ For more info, visit https://camb.ma/3Tfu3VW

05.03.2026 20:48 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

A Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit Is Now in the Hands of Foreign Spies and Criminals A highly sophisticated set of iPhone hijacking techniques has likely infected tens of thousands of phones or more. Clues suggest it was originally built for the US government.

www.wired.com/story/coruna...

04.03.2026 07:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

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Education and the Margins of Cyclical Adjustment in the Labor Market - The Review of Economic Studies Allocative wages—the labor costs considered when deciding to form or dissolve a long-term employment relationship—are more sensitive to cyclical conditions for more educated workers. Specifically, col...

Proud of my daughter, Cynthia Doniger, published in the Review of Economic Studies. www.restud.com/education-an...

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Some cities ditching Atlanta-based company’s license plate readers over immigration surveillance concerns As President Trump's immigration enforcement crackdown has escalated in recent months, residents of some cities are urging local leaders to stop using Atlanta-based Flock Safety's license plate reader...

www.wabe.org/some-cities-...

20.02.2026 04:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bill would restrict government use of license-plate readers, set retention limits and vendor rules ESSB 6002 would broadly prohibit state and local use of automated license-plate reader systems by entities not explicitly authorized, set limits on disclosure and vendor access, and establish a Senate default retention period of 21 days (House version: 72 hours); bill drew sharply divided testimony on privacy, retention, and public-safety carve-outs.

A new bill in Washington aims to regulate automated license-plate readers, igniting a heated debate over privacy rights and public safety.

Learn more here!

#WA #DataTransparency #CitizenPortal #PublicSafety #PrivacyProtection

20.02.2026 03:48 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

UK to require tech firms to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours or face fines U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new law that will require tech companies to remove intimate images shared without consent within two days or face large fines and potentially have their services blocked.

UK to require tech firms to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours or face fines #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

20.02.2026 02:23 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Dilbert Creator’s AI Resurrection Not So Comic for His Family Plus: Elijah Schaffer’s wife says he’s taking huge amounts of kratom.

AI Scott Adams could be a foretaste of a new phase where AI-driven copycats are used—with or without the permission of the individuals being imitated or their families—to mislead, make money, or move the public discourse.

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Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

Reddit, Meta, and Google voluntarily complied with DHS administrative subpoenas seeking to identify anonymous ICE critics, reinforcing platform-level cooperation in digital enforcement efforts. #DHS #ICE #Google #Meta #Reddit #Discord #DigitalSurveillance #AdministrativeSubpoena #Gizmodo

17.02.2026 00:48 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

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Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany fined $25 million over data breaches South Korea has fined luxury fashion brands Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior Couture, and Tiffany $25 million for failing to implement adequate security measures, which facilitated unauthorized access and the exposure of data belonging to more than 5.5 million customers.

Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Tiffany fined $25 million over data breaches #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy

14.02.2026 09:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft rolls out new Secure Boot certificates before June expiration Microsoft has begun rolling out updated Secure Boot certificates through monthly Windows updates to replace the original 2011 certificates that will expire in late June 2026.

www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

11.02.2026 10:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Access Now - A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed...

www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

11.02.2026 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

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ahhh this is so cool

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