Matt Burgess / Wired: A look at cybercrime writing contests, which Russian-language cybercrime forums have hosted for over a decade, that offer the winners up to $80K in prize money  —  The competitions, which are held on Russian-language cybercrime forums, offer prize money of up to $80,000 for the winners. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: The FCC rejects ISPs’ requests to eliminate an upcoming requirement that they list all their monthly fees, saying “every consumer needs transparent information”  —  Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule.  FCC says “no.” Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: NYC subway’s contactless payments system, the OMNY, has a privacy issue that lets one view a rider’s 7-day trip history using just the rider’s credit card info  —  In the mid-afternoon one Saturday earlier this month, the target got on the New York subway.  I knew what station they entered the subway at and at what specific time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emilia David / The Verge: The US Copyright Office seeks public input on AI and copyright issues, including the use of copyrighted works to train AI; written comments are due October 18  —  The US Copyright Office is opening a public comment period around AI and copyright issues beginning August 30th as the agency figures out how to approach the subject. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Document: the UK plans to increase use of AI-based facial recognition tech by the police, potentially deploying new biometric systems over the next 12-18 months  —  Move comes after privacy campaigners and independent academics criticised technology for being inaccurate Lees verder op Tech Meme

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: X updates its privacy policy to include biometric information as data it plans to collect for safety and security, along with data on users’ jobs and education  —  – In policy shift, X will use the data for safety, security  — Employment, education history will be used to recommend jobs Lees verder op Tech Meme

Josh Taylor / The Guardian: Australia abandons its plans to mandate age verification tech for porn sites, citing privacy and security concerns, and will instead focus on educating parents  —  The eSafety commissioner is to work with industry on a new code to educate parents about how to access filtering software and limit children’s access Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta lets users submit requests to access, alter, or delete some of their third-party information that Meta uses for generative AI training  —  – Meta updated its help resource center with a form that gives users some control over what personal data is used to train generative artificial intelligence models. Lees verder op Tech Meme