Mi casa es su casa may not always work.
51% Of Organizations Experienced a Third-Party Data Breach After Overlooking External Access Privileges
SecureLink released its third-party data breach report with the Ponemon Institute, highlighting the gap between perceived third-party access threats and the security mitigations adopted.
The report titled “A Crisis in Third-party Remote Access Security” found that organizations were not implementing the necessary security measures to mitigate third-party remote access risks.
To an individual home owner, these are merely rather cool security devices that allow you to see who is at the door from anywhere in the world. It is Amazon’s ability to link all of them together that provides ‘near perfect’ surveillance.
Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen
One in 10 US police departments can now access videos from millions of privately-owned home security cameras without a warrant
Ring video doorbells, Amazon’s signature home security product, pose a serious threat to a free and democratic society. Not only is Ring’s surveillance network spreading rapidly, it is extending the reach of law enforcement into private property and expanding the surveillance of everyday life. What’s more, once Ring users agree to release video content to law enforcement, there is no way to revoke access and few limitations on how that content can be used, stored, and with whom it can be shared.
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https://www.makeuseof.com/eufy-urges-users-log-out-reset-cameras/
Eufy Urges All Users to Log Out and Reset Their Cameras
A major privacy breach was discovered in Eufy security cameras that allowed one to view the live and recorded camera feeds of strangers. Eufy users also had complete access to the other person's account and could control their camera's pan and tilt positions.
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https://www.bespacific.com/alexa-what-other-devices-are-listening-to-me/
Alexa, what other devices are listening to me?
CNN Business: “More and more, the devices in your home are listening to you, your friends and family. It sounds Orwellian. It’s billed as convenient. As the Internet of Things proliferates, it creates a world in which everyday devices are interconnected via a web of sensors, apps, software and Wi-Fi. That means you can lower your thermostat on the drive home while your refrigerator orders a dozen eggs after sensing the supply is low. Your hackable home – Devices with various types of voice technology are also becoming more common. With a simple hands-free utterance, an Amazon- or Google-run personal assistant can stream your favorite Gap Band playlist or find a solid recipe for macaroons. But it also raises concerns about privacy – not just hacking but also how companies protect your data… So, what devices are listening? And why? Here’s a quick rundown of some popular contraptions, along with links to their privacy policies, so you can see what the parent companies can and can’t do with the data they collect…”
The possibilities are disturbing. Toward a complete Deep Fake tool?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/17/reface-now-lets-users-face-swap-into-pics-they-upload/
Reface now lets users face-swap into pics and GIFs they upload
Buzzy face-swapping video app Reface is expanding its reality-shifting potential beyond selfies by letting users upload more of their own content for its AI to bring to life.
Users of its iOS and Android apps still can’t upload their own user generated video but the latest feature — which it calls Swap Animation — lets them upload images of humanoid stuff (monuments, memes, fine art portraits, or — indeed — photos of other people) which they want animated, choosing from a selection of in-app song snippets and poems for the AI-incarnate version to appear to speak/sing etc.
Reface’s freemium app has, thus far, taken a tightly curated approach to the content users can animate, only letting you face swap a selfie into a pre-set selection of movie and music video snippets (plus memes, GIFs, red carpet celeb shots, salon hair-dos and more).
But the new feature — which similarly relies on GAN (generative adversarial network) algorithms to work its reality-bending effects — expands the expressive potential of the app by letting users supply their own source material to face swap/animate.
Some rival apps do already offer this kind of functionality — so there’s an element of Reface catching up to apps like Avatarify, Wombo and Deep Nostalgia.
Useful tool?
Brainstormer - A Collaborative Brainstorming and Voting Tool
Brainstormer is a new online brainstorming tool that is easy to use and helps solve the "what do we do now?" problem that often arises at the end of group brainstorming sessions. Brainstormer solves that problem by letting members of the brainstorming session vote for their favorite ideas.
Brainstormer is quick and easy to use. Registration is not required in order to host or participate in a Brainstormer session. To get started simply head to the site and click "setup brainstorm." The next screen will prompt you to write a question or problem to brainstorm about. After writing your prompt you'll enter your name and on the next screen you'll get a link to share with the people you want join your session. Participants will join by just clicking the link you share with them.
In a Brainstormer session you can set a time limit of five, ten, fifteen, twenty, or thirty minutes. You can reset the timer if you need more time and you can end the session early if the group has run out of ideas. Whenever your Brainstormer session ends a voting screen appears and all group members can vote for their favorite ideas.
Participants in Brainstormer sessions can write and submit as many ideas as they like. All submitted ideas appear as sticky notes on the screen. Participants' screen names do not appear on voting page.
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