Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes your day. Amazon’s Bee devices take that a step further and can record and transcribe everything. Dozens of other...

Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s smart glasses can record anything the owner is looking at or use artificial intelligence to describe it. Apple’s* Audio Intelligence feature turns every Apple Watch into a transcription machine that records or summarizes your day. Amazon’s Bee devices take that a step further and can record and transcribe everything. Dozens of other...

A Florida parking invoice has sparked a much bigger legal battle over personal privacy. After a parking company allegedly used license plate information to retrieve a driver's name and home address from state motor vehicle records, a federal judge ruled that the resulting privacy claim could proceed. The case challenges the idea that individuals must suffer financial loss or other visible damage before they can enforce their privacy rights, raising important questions about surveillance, statutory protect...

A Florida parking invoice has sparked a much bigger legal battle over personal privacy. After a parking company allegedly used license plate information to retrieve a driver's name and home address from state motor vehicle records, a federal judge ruled that the resulting privacy claim could proceed. The case challenges the idea that individuals must suffer financial loss or other visible damage before they can enforce their privacy rights, raising important questions about surveillance, statutory protect...

Two California drivers have filed a class action against Axon Enterprise, alleging that the company’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) network tracks and stores California residents’ movements without the privacy disclosures state law requires. The complaint states that Axon’s fixed and police-vehicle cameras capture license plates, locations, timestamps, and vehicle characteristics, and then combines this information with other camera feeds and makes it searchable through its Evidence and Fusus softwa...

Two California drivers have filed a class action against Axon Enterprise, alleging that the company’s automated license plate reader (ALPR) network tracks and stores California residents’ movements without the privacy disclosures state law requires. The complaint states that Axon’s fixed and police-vehicle cameras capture license plates, locations, timestamps, and vehicle characteristics, and then combines this information with other camera feeds and makes it searchable through its Evidence and Fusus softwa...

Ireland's Oireachtas AI Committee has called for smart glasses that can record people to be regulated over privacy concerns. The bigger question: should they be banned outright?

Ireland's Oireachtas AI Committee has called for smart glasses that can record people to be regulated over privacy concerns. The bigger question: should they be banned outright?

A smartphone showing LinkedIn's logo, the Department of Justice building, and the DOJ logo against a blue background

A smartphone showing LinkedIn's logo, the Department of Justice building, and the DOJ logo against a blue background

Reject Convenience reads the privacy policies of ZocDoc, Ground News and Monarch, so you know what you're agreeing to before you sign up.

Reject Convenience reads the privacy policies of ZocDoc, Ground News and Monarch, so you know what you're agreeing to before you sign up.