Today in Privacy — Sep 17
Posted by PrivacyWire
- AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so — If AI agents can modify themselves without human instruction, it may become harder to understand or control what they do. That could create privacy and… — discuss · link - Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim — The ruling limits an attempt to turn a narrow DMCA provision into a broader source of copyright liability for internet users and programmers. That matters for… — discuss · link - Anthropic wants Claude to analyze your bank account and financial data — Connecting bank accounts to Claude would give an AI access to highly sensitive financial information, raising questions about data use, retention, and… — discuss · link - Cyber Op Targets South Korean Media & Automotive Sectors — A likely North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group used a previously undocumented Linux espionage toolkit to compromise load balancers, gain access… — discuss · link - How Candidates Could Use AI for Good — This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian. There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of… — link These stories show how AI, copyright rules, financial data, election systems, and targeted cyberattacks are changing the privacy and security landscape. What risks or safeguards are you seeing in your own work and communities?