Microsoft changed its terms of service to disallow US police departments’ use of facial recognition in Azure OpenAI, its generative AI enterprise platform. It also explicitly bars use of real-time facial recognition technology for trying to identify people in uncontrolled environments. However, OpenAI and Microsoft have pursued project work with the Pentagon and US Department of Defense.
Failure to patch known vulnerabilities contributed to twice as many confirmed security breaches in 2023 than the previous year. Fourteen percent of breaches began by exploiting a vulnerability, almost triple the previous year. Don’t discount human fallibility either: Clicking on phishing emails and failing to correctly configure security controls made a contribution.
Dropbox has more than 700 million registered users and, while it’s not known how many customers use Dropbox Sign, the service is available on all Dropbox tier plans. So, the Dropbox Sign hack they announced may have affected millions of consumers. Now, a class action has been proposed out of California, which alleges private information of potentially millions of customers may have been exposed and accuses Dropbox of lacking the most basic security protocols thus leaving information at risk.
In partnership with attention metrics provider Adelaide, The Trade Desk is now offering high attention inventory to advertisers. Attention — often based on reactions of opt-in panels to ads — is now competing with viewability as a valued attribute, and is being used to complement contextual metrics. Attention has been used in the past to test ads once they have been published; now it’s entering the pre-bid space.