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- 'Biometric Exit' Quietly Expands Across U.S. Airports, Unnerving Some [nytimes.com]
A proposed rule has cleared the way for biometric exit, "which involves taking photos of passengers leaving the country and applying facial recognition technology to ensure that travelers match their identification documents," to expand to all airports, seaports, and land crossings across the [U.S.].
Lack of regulation is just one of the reasons privacy experts are concerned. Jeramie Scott, a lawyer with the Electronic Privacy Information Center, raised concerns that "facial recognition is prone to false positives, particularly for people of color and women." He also warned about "mission creep" — the idea that those photos could be used in other ways.
- Viral Call-Recording App Neon Goes Dark After Exposing Users' Phone Numbers, Call Recordings, and Transcripts [techcrunch.com]
Neon was an app "that paid users to record their phone audio so it could sell the data to AI companies to help "train, improve, and test AI models." But the once-viral app "has gone offline, at least for now, after a security flaw allowed anyone to access the phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts of any other user" — a security flaw discovered by TechCrunch reporters. A reminder to carefully consider the apps you use.
TechCrunch points out that "this would not be the first time that an app with serious security issues has made it onto these app marketplaces."
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