Apple Working with Sony’s iPhone Camera Sensor Division 11 ByNitish Singh-December 28, 2018.712 Figure 1 Picture Courtesy of Sony Sony may be responsible for providing Apple with the forthcoming iPhone 11 3D imaging technology. The technology could provide for better Ar face recognition and 3D modeling functionality. Many features the next iPhone is expected to include 5 G networking and better wireless charging. Microsoft disagrees with Eu’s Facial Recognition ProposalByBill Toulas-January 21, 2020.713 The European Commission aims to impose a five-year ban on facial recognition systems. Google responds with “good idea” but Microsoft feels we’re going to lose critical benefits. Microsoft has shared its reservations about the facial recognition technologies that Eu considers. The Bbc reported last week that the European Commission was very concerned about the implications of facial recognition tech and the societal consequences. Accordingly, the Commission was preparing an 18-page document that would recommend formally banning innovation in Europe for the next five years. That would be necessary to identify and evaluate the potential risks found by this new technology, and to establish mitigation and management steps. This news was welcomed by Sundar Pichai from Alphabet who said that at this time temporary bans on facial-recognition technology make perfect sense. Mr Pichai spoke at a conference in Brussels and said that policymakers and regulators will address this now rather than later, so it is a good idea to think about how facial recognition should be best used after a waiting period approach. On the other hand, Microsoft’s chief legal officer Brad Smith expressed his reluctance at this moment to accept any kind of use restrictions in relation to the emerging tech. As he said, there are many facial recognition advantages and there are already organizations that use the software to find missing children and save lives for people. Banning the software for five years will lead to the death of people who otherwise could have been saved. Since there is no alternative to use right now Smith claims we will continue to use facial recognition and simply strengthen the laws and control measures that support it as we move forward. At the same time as the controversy over facial recognition technology and applications sparks the police in the UK are performing a large-scale test of their Nec-made facial recognition software outside the Cardiff stadium last week, scanning people in real time and detaining anyone in their “blacklist.” Accuracy problems further worsen inequality and breaches of privacy, and many are still concerned of police reaching undemocratic territory. The Uk moves out of the Eu anyway so whatever legislation will be introduced to control how soon facial recognition will be used will be their own matter. As for the rest of the Union, we hope that the Commission will actually move forward with its proposal and that innovation will be banned until we are sure how to make the most of it without violating the constitutional rights of people. There are no benefits or positive effects that can overcome the negative effects of abussing these systems and we need to first develop a context that will define what constitutes a proper application. Near to 22 Million User Passwords Email dresses Dumped on a Hacking Forum
ByNitish Singh-January 17 2019.714 Figure 1 Picture Courtesy of Pexels A list of usernames and passwords from multiple data breaches has been posted on a hacking forum. Security researcher Troy Hunt has published a report informing users about the breach. Recently, a large folder (87 Gb) dubbed “Collection # 1” has been dumped into hacking fora. The folder contains over 772 million email addresses, 82 per cent of which have already been identified on the website of the security researcher Troy Hunt. About 22 million passwords were also included in the folder in addition to the email addresses but luckily they are all old passwords and are not involved. The downloadable folder isn’t available on the website anymore. The emails and passwords have been collected from a series of data breaches that date back to 2008. If you want to know if your email is one of them, you can check on Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned website for your email or use Mozilla’s (Firefox Monitor) service, which is partnered with Hunt to provide warnings whenever a registered user is affected by a data breach or leak. The service is free and collects no user data. Fresh breach: The list of credentials Set # 1 started to circulate widely last week and includes 772904991 unique email addresses with plain text passwords (now in Pwned Passwords). 82 percent of the addresses were already in @haveibeenpwned Have I been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) January 16, 2019 Users seeing their emails on the list will immediately change all of their passwords. Hunt has revealed that having passwords written down is far better than using the same passwords for multiple services. Password management services are available, and use hardware authentication keys is another choice internet users have. A number of online services offer hardware and biometric 2Fa that are much safer than using traditional Sms or email-based methods of authentication.