data protection

Smart glasses face global crackdown from Paris to Canberra

A wave of government action against smart glasses is building across multiple continents, with Paris prosecutors launching a criminal investigation into sexual harassment linked to the devices, Australia weighing a first-of-its-kind ban in federal buildings, and Channel Islands regulators warning…

G7 calls on governments to fast-track quantum-safe encryption

The G7 Cyber Security Working Group and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a joint statement on September 3 calling on governments and organizations worldwide to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography, warning that the threat posed by…

German criminal complaint escalates global backlash against Meta smart glasses

Meta is facing a mounting global backlash over its AI-powered Ray-Ban smart glasses, with courts in England and Wales banning the devices from judicial buildings, a criminal complaint filed in Germany on Wednesday, and venues across the United Kingdom restricting…

Meta’s Muse Image uses public Instagram photos for AI without consent

Meta on Tuesday rolled out Muse Image, its first in-house AI image generation model built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, immediately igniting a privacy firestorm after users discovered the tool can pull photos from public Instagram accounts to generate AI images…