CISA Launches Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative to Improve Planning, Information-Sharing
Apple's technology to scan images decried as 'backdoor' into photos and messages, FTC dismisses Facebook claims that consent decree dictated dumping academic researchers, much more
Check out my latest CSO column to find out why Representative Jim Langevin (D-RI), a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, thinks CISA’s just-announced JCDC effort will succeed when other federal public-private partnerships have failed.
Apple’s introduction of “Expanded Protections for Children,” which uses machine learning to determine whether a photo likely contains sexual material for all images, has spurred stiff backlash and controversy given that it is a technology that governments and bad actors could use to surveil other content, including political material.
The free speech organization EFF decried the move, saying it essentially inserts “a backdoor into photos and messages, making privacy on the iPhone a thing of the past.” Later this year, the technology will be included in an update to accounts set up as families in iCloud for iOS15, iPad OS15, and macOS Monterey. (Joseph Cox / Motherboard and EFF)
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