Privacy

Ticketmaster's Selfie Checks: A 60-Day Success, a Three-Year Failure in the Security-Privacy Trade-Off

Soummaih Hydara's data-sharing decision reveals the real cost: longtime account holders can be flagged without warning, and the trade-off between bot prevention and privacy is far from settled.

PrivacyIdentity VerificationBot Protection

Water Attacks, AI Breaches, and a Week of Security Fallout

Water utilities across seven states, rogue AI agents, and a wave of scams and legal battles — the week's security news in brief.

CyberattacksWater InfrastructureAI Security

The browser is becoming the AI gatekeeper. Firefox's head says keep it open.

Mozilla's Ajit Varma on user control, concentration risk, and why the open web needs an independent engine.

Open WebFirefoxAI

Flock's license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time in Roseville – and the setup made it worse

An internal review found 1,427 alerts, 1,000+ false positives, and a police supervisor who knew the plate mistake by heart – the reason points to a privacy tradeoff.

SurveillanceLicense Plate ReadersAI Accuracy