Clearview is not the first company to automate the process of trawling publicly available information. Other intelligence platforms sold to law enforcement, including ShadowDragon’s SocialNet, Penlink’s Tangles, and Fivecast, help investigators uncover aliases and associates and map a person’s digital… Read More "Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online"
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. When every random text… Read More "Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead"
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
After reporting last week that the surveillance company Flock Safety is building an AI search tool for law enforcement, WIRED reconstructed Flock’s latest search tool from code that the company sends to a police officer’s browser and uncovered key details… Read More "OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website"
New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
For the best part of a decade, abusive deepfake “pornography” websites have published thousands of nonconsensual videos depicting women, including high-profile celebrities, politicians, and public figures, into sexual situations. Now, in what is likely the largest takedown of explicit deepfake… Read More "New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites"
The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
You may have noticed that Flock Safety’s automatic license plate reader cameras—and the cops who misuse them—are getting a lot of coverage lately. This week, WIRED found a particularly wild case: A cop in Alpharetta, Georgia, was accused of searching… Read More "The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn"