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CERT : These emerging technologies bring new risks | ZDNet
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n its Emerging Technology Domains Risk Survey, CERT examines a variety of trends that can provide a lot of benefits to people and businesses, but also pose risks that need to be addressed.

Some of these areas are moving ahead so quickly in adoption that companies have not had a chance to completely evaluate their implications. For example, “machine learning and robotics are advancing more quickly than expected, and may have as-yet-undiscovered risks,” said Dan Klinedinst, senior threat and vulnerability researcher at CERT and one of the authors of the report.

#Sécurité_informatique #Intelligence_artificielle

With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3 million phone calls | ZDNet
▻http://www.zdnet.com/article/one-federal-wiretap-order-recorded-millions-phone-calls

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#surveillance #wtf

Hundreds of privacy-invading apps are using ultrasonic sounds to track you | ZDNet
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These near-silent tones can’t be picked up by the human ear, but there are apps in your phone that are always listening for them. This technology is called ultrasonic cross-device tracking, and it works by emitting high-frequency tones in advertisements and billboards, web pages, and across brick-and-mortar retail outlets or sports stadiums. Apps with access to your phone’s microphone can pick up these tones and build up a profile about what you’ve seen, where, and in some cases even the websites you’ve visited.

Many of these apps have been downloaded thousands of millions of times, such as games — like Pinoy Henyo, which was named in the research as one of the apps that opens up the microphone to listen to ultrasonic tones. Other app makers were named in the paper — including McDonalds and Krispy Kreme, though it’s not known how either company utilizes their ad-tracking technology.

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