Avast Shuts Down its Data Sales Subsidiary Due to Privacy Backlash Avast was recently caught selling user's web browsing data. Sensitive data like website destinations, search terms, and even what videos customers watched were collected by Avast software residing on customers' computers. The data was repackaged and then sold by their Jumpshot subsidiary. When the investigative reporting story became public, users were instantly outraged. Just a couple of days after the CEO…
There is No Easy Fix to AI Privacy Problems Artificial intelligence – more specifically, the machine learning (ML) subset of AI - has a number of privacy problems. Not only does ML require vast amounts of data for the training process, but the derived system is also provided with access to even greater volumes of data as part of the inference processing while in operation. These AI systems need to access and “consume” huge amounts of data in order to exist and, in many use…
2020 Techno Security & Digital Forensic conference in San Diego CA on March 9th-11th I am looking forward to the 2020 Techno Security & Digital Forensic conference in San Diego CA on March 9th-11th. I was honored to deliver last year's keynote and looking at the list of sessions, this year's lineup is even better. https://www.technosecurity.us/ca Drones, Artificial Intelligence, Smartphones, Social Apps, Cryptocurrency, and other forensics topics are being discussed by…
Cryptocurrency Fraud Reached $4.3 Billion in 2019 This is especially shocking to those who thought they had found an incredible investment in the cryptocurrency world, yet were swindled out of everything. As part of these cryptocurrency scams, victims are lured into investing with the hype of significant returns. Once committed, they are often shown how their accounts are quickly accruing vast wealth, which encourages them to pour even more of their money into the con. The…
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