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.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.