The police are using fake AI faces to identify suspects, Mozilla is angry, & More!

Welcome to Episode 6 of This Week in Privacy Live. This show is hosted by Privacy Guides team member Jonah Aragon and published by Privacy Guides, a non-profit which researches and shares privacy-related information, and facilitates a community on our forum and Matrix where people can ask questions and get advice about staying private online and preserving their digital rights.

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Privacy News

• Mozilla Platform Tilt: https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2024/01/19/platform-tilt
• WIRED: Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It https://www.wired.com/story/parabon-nanolabs-dna-face-models-police-facial-recognition
• Gizmodo: iPhone Apps Secretly Harvest Data When They Send You Notifications, Researchers Find https://gizmodo.com/iphone-apps-can-harvest-data-from-notifications-1851194537
• CNN: Amazon’s Ring to shutter video-sharing program popular with police https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/tech/amazons-ring-video-sharing-with-police/index.html
• 404 Media: These Are the Notorious NSA Furby Documents Showing Spy Agency Freaking Out https://www.404media.co/these-are-the-notorious-nsa-furby-documents-showing-spy-agency-freaking-out-about-childrens-toy/
• Ars Technica: NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/nsa-finally-admits-to-spying-on-americans-by-purchasing-sensitive-data/

Security News

• Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/

Community News

• Ars Technica: OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/openwrt-now-20-years-old-is-crafting-its-own-future-proof-reference-hardware/
• Jonah Aragon: Apple is Incredibly Salty About the Digital Markets Act https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/apple-is-incredibly-salty-about-the-digital-markets-act/