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  • Slashdot: Amazon’s Ring Plans to Scan Everyone’s Face at the Door

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/04/0357255/amazons-ring-plans-to-scan-everyones-face-at-the-door?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Amazon’s Ring Plans to Scan Everyone’s Face at the Door Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Amazon’s introduction of facial recognition for Ring doorbells raises significant privacy concerns regarding the collection and usage of biometric data without consent. While it empowers users, critics highlight ethical and legal…

  • The Register: Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/whitebridge_ai_reputation_reports_complaint/ Source: The Register Title: Whitebridge AI created false and alarming reputation reports, complaint alleges Feedly Summary: Privacy group Noyb wants Lithuania to throw the GDPR book at ’em Whitebridge AI, based in Lithuania, faces a privacy complaint for allegedly selling “reputation reports" based on unlawfully collected data and AI misinformation.… AI Summary…

  • Slashdot: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2338214/hundreds-of-google-ai-workers-were-fired-amid-fight-over-working-conditions?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hundreds of Google AI Workers Were Fired Amid Fight Over Working Conditions Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses the difficult working conditions of AI raters contracted by Google through Hitachi’s GlobalLogic, highlighting issues such as high pressure, job disillusionment, and the precarious nature of…

  • The Register: Users in SAP’s heartland call for greater license transparency

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/sap_dsag_licensing_transparency/ Source: The Register Title: Users in SAP’s heartland call for greater license transparency Feedly Summary: DSAG players grappling with cloud migration want more consistency with commercial models DSAG, the SAP user group for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, has called for greater transparency in cloud licensing to enable the migration and upgrade of…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/05/0535228/anthropic-clamps-down-on-ai-services-for-chinese-owned-firms Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is instituting measures to block its AI services from companies controlled by China, citing concerns over national security and the potential use of its technology for military purposes. This move reflects…

  • The Register: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/sainsburys_lfr/ Source: The Register Title: Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Feedly Summary: Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech…

  • Embrace The Red: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/amazon-q-developer-remote-code-execution/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Amazon Q Developer: Remote Code Execution with Prompt Injection Feedly Summary: The Amazon Q Developer VS Code Extension (Amazon Q) is a popular coding agent, with over 1 million downloads. The extension is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, and in this post we discuss a vulnerability that…