Sleep wearable firms trained AI on customer brainwaves without clear consent
Investigators found tens of millions of hours of EEG; Interaxon trained a model on about 50,000 hours.
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AI notetakers move from meetings onto wearables, authors warn
The essay says always-on watches and glasses can record without a visible bot, and shared summaries can leak other meetings.
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Cloudflare obtains South Korea ISMS certification under ISMS-P
Korean sign-ups require three separate consents, and social login is not offered in South Korea.
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Study of 10,000+ mHealth apps finds consent and permission failures
About 93% lacked a consent form, and 69.15% requested at least one permission unrelated to the stated purpose.
Grindr users’ sensitive data shared through ad auctions without valid consent
Norway fined Xandr about $9.6 million for sharing Grindr users' sensitive data without valid consent.
Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
Critics say new Apple Watch transcription features and Meta camera glasses normalize always-on surveillance.
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terms.txt: A Consent and Compensation Protocol for Agentic Web Access
terms.txt specifies a robots.txt-style protocol for per-path, per-purpose AI crawler consent and compensation, with enforcement adding 0.20-0.65 ms per request.
From all-or-nothing to task-based OAuth consent
Cloudflare OAuth adds optional scopes and task-based consent, letting users limit what apps can access per task.