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SDA awards L3Harris, Sierra $1.75B for missile defense satellites
The new satellites for missile warning, tracking and targeting are being developed under an “accelerated” schedule to meet the Pentagon’s 2028 plans for demonstrating its Golden Dome missile defense shield.
Don’t Repeat NY’s 3D Printing Blunder
This year the state of New York had the dubious honor of being the first to pass a controversial provision to mandate all 3D printers come with surveillance and censorship. That means not only is there a ticking clock to protect every artist, researcher, engineer, and hobbyist in the state, but there is a real risk of other states thoughtlessly following suit—prior to the New York rules even taking effect. We, along with many other experts , already warned about this bill buried in the state’s c
SDA awards $1.75B in deals for additional Golden Dome missile tracking sats
The 36 missile warning and tracking satellites are expected to launch by the end of 2028 in support of Golden Dome. The post SDA awards $1.75B in deals for additional Golden Dome missile tracking sats appeared first on DefenseScoop .
Google is training AI on even more of your data now, unless you opt out - here's how
Images, videos and voice searches can be used to train Google's LLMs. You can disable this feature to retain your privacy.
ViHoRec: A Quality-Controlled Vietnamese Hotel Recommendation Dataset and Cold-Start Benchmark
Recommender-system research for Vietnamese remains limited by the absence of a public, well-documented hotel interaction resource. Building such a resource is challenging for three reasons: cross-platform hotel names must be reconciled before interactions are comparable; quality must be audited with reproducible metrics rather than ad hoc cleaning; and public release must preserve privacy while remaining benchmarkable under realistic cold-start conditions. We introduce ViHoRec, a quality-control
Managerial resistance to digital workplace surveillance in a local government authority
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Government Information Quarterly, Volume 43, Issue 3 Author(s): Oliver George Kayas, Efpraxia D. Zamani
Unpacking the Chinese privacy paradox: Fifty years of privacy perceptions and contemporary empirical evidence in the AI era
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Yu-li Liu, Rubing Li, Jiayi Mi, Jiayue Dai, Bo Hu
The trade-off between security and privacy: An empirical investigation using Pakistani survey data
Publication date: August 2026 Source: Technology in Society, Volume 87 Author(s): Alexandros Apostolakis, Oleg Badunenko, Shabbar Jaffry, Akbar Nasir Khan
Balancing privacy and public interest: ethical and legal aspects
Publication date: September 2026 Source: Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 8 Author(s): Veronika Horielova, Olena Derevianko, Oleksii Yanushevskyi, Maksym Lysak
European Court of Human Rights: Failure to take effective information security measures to protect sensitive personal data violates right to privacy – I v. Finland , no. 20511/03, 17 July 2008
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Jari Råman
The tolls of privacy: An underestimated roadblock for electronic toll collection usage
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Patrick F. Riley
When conversational AI personalises too much: Refining privacy calculus for bundled interactional cues in AI-mediated disclosure
Publication date: November 2026 Source: Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 184 Author(s): Khanh Duy Phan, Bao Quoc Truong-Dinh
The EU Data Protection Directive: An engine of a global regime
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Michael D. Birnhack
The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Coordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Mark Turner, Tim Gunn
Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Harry Small, Helen Kemmitt, Julie Wood, Ben Smith, Nick Wloch
Privacy forum: The leading speakers disclose their fears
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 6 Author(s): Roger Baker
The JK Rowling photo case – Are privacy rights evolving for the online era?
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 5 Author(s): Kate Brimsted
The regular article tracking developments at the national level in key European countries in the area of IT and communications – Co-ordinated by Herbert Smith LLP and contributed to by firms across Europe
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 5 Author(s): Mark Turner, Tim Gunn
Baker & McKenzie's regular article tracking developments in EU law relating to IP, IT and telecommunications
Publication date: 2008 Source: Computer Law & Security Report, Volume 24, Issue 5 Author(s): Harry Small, Michael Dizon, Rachael Jolley, Matthew Hope, Katie Cullinan
Federated and explainable learning analytics for privacy-preserving academic risk modeling across heterogeneous educational institutions
Publication date: December 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 11 Author(s): William Villegas-Ch, Alexandra Maldonado Navarro, Jaime Govea, Joselin Garcia-Ortiz, Diego Buenaño-Fernandez
Preparing pre-service teachers for responsible generative AI use: Curriculum implications for ethics, privacy, and AI literacy
Publication date: June 2026 Source: Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, Volume 10 Author(s): Lucas Kohnke, Di Zou, Chun Lai, Mingyue Michelle Gu
SUPA 2025 : Societal & User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA) Workshop
Societal & User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA) Workshop [Seattle, WA, USA] [Aug 10, 2025 - Aug 10, 2025]
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026. I’m speaking at Cognitive Security Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conference runs August 6-7, 2026; my speaking time is TBD. I’m speaking at DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The conventions runs
Real-time fall detection based on vision for low-power edge platforms
Falling detection is vital for elderly care and intelligent surveillance; however, prevailing vision-based approaches predominantly frame it as static pose classification or discrete temporal pattern matching, fundamentally overlooking the instability dynamics of the human support system. This paper proposes a physics-informed falling detection framework that recasts falling as a stability-loss event in a coupled dynamical system. We introduce a novel dual-LTC architecture comprising a Center-of
Autonomous Tracking and Terminal Guidance of Moving Targets for Fixed-Wing UAVs
This study introduces a unified control framework for fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) fitted with a pan-tilt (PT) camera, intended to perform an end-to-end mission spanning from initial target detection to accurate terminal engagement. The proposed system employs a three-phase strategy: a vision-based target acquisition phase, an NMPC-based tracking phase, and a terminal guidance phase. During tracking, the framework uses an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) to fuse YOLO-based visual dete
12 YouTube default settings to change right now for a more enjoyable experience
YouTube works well with default settings, but I tighten some privacy controls and enable a few features to make it even better.
Reducing information dependency does not cause training data privacy. Adversarially non-robust features do
In this paper, we challenge the prevailing view that information dependency (including rote memorization) drives training data exposure to image reconstruction attacks. We show that extensive exposure can persist without rote memorization and is instead caused by a tunable connection to adversarial robustness. We begin by presenting three surprising results: (1) recent defenses that inhibit reconstruction by Model Inversion Attacks (MIAs), which evaluate leakage under an idealized attacker, do n
‘Surveillance Chic’: can Meta make its smart glasses a viable fashion accessory?
Efforts to bring AI glasses to a broader demographic via a partnership with Kylie Jenner appear to have backfired
Do LLMs Fabricate Legal Citations? A Bilingual Benchmark on Saudi Data Protection Law and the GDPR
arXiv:2607.11127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Organizations and regulators increasingly consult large language models (LLMs) for regulatory-compliance questions, yet a wrong statutory citation can silently propagate into legal advice, compliance documentation, and policy decisions. We introduce a bilingual benchmark of 120 questions probing whether freely accessible LLMs fabricate article citations for two data-protection instruments: the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the
Financial Data Privacy in the 119th Congress
FLMMIF: privacy-preserving federated multi-modal medical image fusion
As a pivotal technique in smart healthcare, medical image fusion integrates complementary functional and structural information to facilitate accurate diagnosis and enhance clinical decision-making reliability. However, existing centralized methods typically raise serious data privacy concerns, while standard distributed approaches often fail to balance global generalization with local node personalization due to data heterogeneity. To address this, we propose FLMMIF, a privacy-preserving framew
Los Angeles law enforcement will stop using Flock cameras
The Los Angeles police department did not renew its contract with Flock due to data privacy concerns.
Edge-Aware Thermal Infrared UAV Swarm Tracking
Thermal infrared (TIR) imaging is essential for UAV swarm operations in visually degraded environments. However, tracking tiny UAVs remains challenging due to limited appearance cues, frequent occlusions, and rapid maneuvers. Despite significant progress driven by benchmarks such as the Anti-UAV challenge, existing methods primarily prioritize accuracy while overlooking the computational constraints of real-time edge deployment. The standard Kalman Filter (KF) offers the efficiency required for
EPIC Urges D.C. Council to Strengthen Proposed Government Data Privacy and Protection Act
EPIC submitted testimony on Monday to the D.C. Council Committee on Public Works & Operations urging them to further strengthen B26-0670, the DC Government Data Privacy and Protection Act of 2026.
Supporting Reflection in LLM-based Exploratory Search
Large Language Models (LLMs) can make exploratory search more efficient but may undermine the reflection and iterative sensemaking needed in unfamiliar domains. Existing LLM tools often prioritize rapid answers over supporting users in tracking how their understanding evolves and how well their strategies align with their goals. We present TrailLM, a system that helps users reconstruct and revisit their exploration paths to support reflection and metacognitive engagement during information seeki
Securing LLMs in the Wild: Privacy and Security Challenges at the Edge
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from research settings into the wild, deployed on enterprise infrastructure, personal devices, and edge platforms. While cloud deployments offer scalable compute, concerns over data sovereignty, compliance, latency, and third-party dependence are driving organizations toward edge and on-premise LLMs. This shift introduces new security and privacy challenges: limited compute and memory force aggressive optimizations, including quantization, pruning,
WhatsApp Usernames in India: Privacy Upgrade or New Fraud Surface for Digital Finance?
WhatsApp usernames may reduce phone number exposure, but in India, they also raise a deeper question...
Thought for the week: Web scraping for generative AI is subject to the GDPR
This article was originally published by IAPP linked here. Organizations using scraped data for AI training should prepare for heightened expectations around data minimization, transparency and accountability. On 7 July, the European Data Protection Board approved “Guidelines on web scraping in the context of generative AI.” Perhaps not surprisingly, the EDPB considers that web scraping [...] The post Thought for the week: Web scraping for generative AI is subject to the GDPR appeared first on C
Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions
A public resource tracking all the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions. The post Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions appeared first on Just Security .
Chinese internet firms sign AI agent data protection pact
The China Internet Association released a self-regulatory pact on personal information protection for AI agents at a forum in Beijing, with Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Volcengine, and 27 other internet companies among the first signatories. The pact is aimed at standardizing how AI agents collect, process, and use personal data as agent-based services spread across internet […]