In Brief: Security vendor Verkada has dropped facial biometrics in 4 US regions – Texas, Illinois, Baltimore, Maryland and Portland, Oregon – in response to expanding legislation
Expectations are more vendors may follow.
Expectations are more vendors may follow.
Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge (Diksha), a key public education tool operated by India’s Ministry of Education and used by millions of Indian students particularly during the pandemic, had its data left unprotected on a Microsoft Azure cloud server for more than a year. Wired, which has verified the story, reported this left the data searchable via a simple Google search.
The company has claimed data was “limited,” since it didn’t include payment card data.
BetterUp and Stanford Social Media Lab define workslop as “AI-generated content that looks good, but lacks substance.” Their survey of 1,150 full-time desk workers in the U.S. finds that 40% received workslop in the last month, costing $186 per month per employee. For a 10,000-person company, that’s $9 million annually.