Mexico City Is the Most Video-Surveilled Metropolis in the Americas

Despite 83,000 public cameras, crime in Mexico City remains high—and widespread surveillance raises myriad ethical issues...

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

Italy's data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence AI firm DeepSeek's service within the country, citing a lack of information on its use of users' personal data. The development comes days after the authority, the Garante, sent a series of questions to DeepSeek, asking...

ChatGPT writes insecure code

Research by computer scientists associated with the Universite du Quebec in Canada has found that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, is prone to generating insecure code. "How Secure is Code Generated by ChatGPT?" is the work of Raphael Khoury, Anderson Avila, Jacob Brunelle, and Baba Mamadou...

Cory Doctorow on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter. Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies. I think it's both. Surveillance capitalism has some...

Comodo's so-called 'Secure Internet Browser' Comes with Disabled Security Features

Beware Comodo Users! Have you Safeguarded your PC with a Comodo Antivirus? Then you need to inspect your system for privacy and security concerns. First of all, make sure whether your default browser had been changed to "Chromodo" -- a free browser offered by Comodo Antivirus. If your head nod is...

Crypto Leaders: 'Exceptional Access' Will Undo Security

A powerhouse baker’s dozen of cryptography experts and pioneers have released a paper explaining the potential legal and ethical issues relative to the government’s continued insistence on access to cryptographic keys that secure communication over the Internet. The paper, called “Keys Under...