Subject: Protect Yourself from Identity Thieves
Source: SSA Blog
https://blog.ssa.gov/protect-yourself-from-identity-thieves/
Identify theft is when someone uses your personal information to impersonate you or steal from you. Did you know the consequences of identity theft are not just financial?These crimes have significant effects on relationships at work and home. They impact physical, mental, and emotional health and lead to lost opportunities for victims that are often hard to measure.
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For more information about how to protect your SSN from identity thieves, read our publication, Identity Theft and Your Social Security Number. Please report suspected Social Security imposter scams — and other Social Security fraud — on the OIG’s website. [8-page PDF]
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Subject: AI tax fraud will be a nightmare this year; creative thinking is needed to thwart it
Source: The Hill — Opinion
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4472608-ai-tax-fraud-will-be-a-nightmare-this-year-creative-thinking-is-needed-to-thwart-it/
As a former IRS Commissioner, I am concerned for today’s IRS leaders and taxpayers during this year’s tax season. Since my departure from the service less than two years ago, artificial intelligence has launched threats of fraud and theft against taxpayers on a scale previously unimaginable. The threats are real, imminent, and ongoing.The pace of innovation is testing government operations and legacy IT platforms more than ever before. Bots armed with stolen personally identifiable information are launching fraudulent claims for government benefits at a pace and volume made possible only by automation and algorithms.
This explosion of fraudulent claims, paired with the ever-evolving tactics of fraudsters, can be a recurring nightmare for all federal agencies, including the IRS. They must swiftly and accurately handle millions of requests, while simultaneously protecting taxpayers’ confidential information and dollars. The proliferation of criminal use of artificial intelligence tools has some administration officials predicting a new era of “turbocharged fraud.”
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Source: Cord Cutters News
https://cordcuttersnews.com/as-ai-looms-large-ftc-says-big-tech-cant-feed-it-your-data-without-your-permission/
As tech companies dive into artificial intelligence, many turn to their user base for information to train their bots. However, the Federal Trade Commission warned the tech giants that there are restrictions in place to protect consumers’ private information, and stealthily altering privacy policies could violate fair business practices.The FTC said training AI to develop products like chatbots for banks and retailers is a lucrative endeavor, but AI has a “continuous appetite” for more data.” The Commission said “data is the new oil” in terms of developing AI in that it is driving innovation while also lining the pockets of those who design it.
The FTC released a statement on February 13 outlining how companies need to protect users with straightforward information on collecting consumer data and how they plan to use it.
The agency said companies need to alert users when policies are changed and cannot do so retroactively. Those who do so quietly to avoid consumer backlash “reneges on its user privacy commitments” and risks “running afoul of the law.”
The FTC has gone after companies for breaching customer privacy protection guidelines. Last June, the FTC said 1Health.io, a DNA health test kit manufacturer previously known as Vitagene, failed to properly secure customers’ sensitive genetic and health data and lied about deleting customer data. The company retroactively changed its privacy policy without notifying or gaining consent from customers. The FTC required the company to strengthen protections for genetic information, and third-party contract labs were mandated to destroy all consumer DNA samples retained for more than 180 days.
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Source: Help Net Security
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/02/19/2024-fraudulent-activity/
To thwart fraudulent activity in 2024, businesses need to deploy more sophisticated fraud protection solutions that harness the power of data and technology to mitigate risk and protect consumers.
Experian suggests consumers and businesses watch out for these five fraud threats in 2024:
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“The speed and complexity of fraud attacks due to new technology and sophisticated fraudsters is leaving both businesses and consumers at risk in 2024,” said Kathleen Peters, chief innovation officer at Experian Decision Analytics in North America. “At Experian, we’re constantly innovating to deliver data-driven solutions to help our customers fight fraud and to protect the consumers they serve. Now more than ever, businesses need to implement a multilayered approach to their identity verification and fraud prevention strategies that leverages the latest technology available.”
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Source: tech.co
https://tech.co/news/chatgpt-north-korea-linkedin-scams
North Korea is using ChatGPT and other AI tools to scam LinkedIn users – and ultimately fund its nuclear weapons program. Microsoft has confirmed North Korean hacking groups are using AI tools like ChatGPT to scam folks out of sensitive information on platforms like LinkedIn as the country tries to draw more funds into its nuclear weapons program.North Korea, which prohibits internet use for its regular citizens, also may be using large language models (LLMs) to develop sophisticated new types of malware, according to recent reports, which also mention Facebook and WhatsApp as hunting grounds for the scammers.
Pyongyang’s AI scams aren’t always convincing, though. Read on to learn more about the pariah nation’s latest cyber attacks, and for practical advice on how to outsmart them.
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Due to these challenges, the top tell-tale signs LinkedIn users should look out for are poor English, cultural misunderstandings, and hesitation around turning on the camera. In general, it is also good practice to inspect the recruiter profile carefully and to do your background research on the company.
Subject: When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You
Source: The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/science/satellites-albedo-privacy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.Ugf-.ZhxHDqCagjia&smid=url-share
“This is a giant camera in the sky for any government to use at any time without our knowledge,” said Jennifer Lynch, general counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who in 2019 urged civil satellite regulators to address this issue. “We should definitely be worried.”
“It’s a big deal,” said Linda Zall, a former C.I.A. official whose decades-long career involved some of the nation’s most powerful spy satellites. The capabilities will hit home, she predicted, when people realize that things they’re trying to hide in their backyards can now be observed with new clarity. “Privacy is a real issue,” Dr. Zall said.
The visual power of a space camera is usually expressed as the length, in meters, of the smallest feature it can resolve. The figure for early cameras was meters. Now it’s centimeters. Overall, experts say, that improvement makes the new images hundreds of times more detailed and revealing.
Mark Brender, a satellite journalism pioneer, noted that reporters on the ground can be harassed and blocked. “But cameras in space are safe from those kinds of pressures,” he said. “They’ve become as indispensable to a free society as a hand-held camera or a printing press.”
Ms. Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation said her discouraging experience with satellite regulators a half decade ago suggested to her that little would be done to mandate a protection of privacy from the eyes in the sky.
Albedo and its backers, she added, are “operating with blinders on and not seeing the ramifications” for human rights.
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Subject: Fake Funeral Live Stream Scams Are All Over Facebook
Source: 404 Media
https://www.bespacific.com/fake-funeral-live-stream-scams-are-all-over-facebook/
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Source: FTC blog
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/02/ftc-says-avast-promised-privacy-pirated-consumers-data-treasure
When uttered by a pirate, “Avast!” is a nautical term for “Listen up and cut it out.” And when the FTC says “Avast!” to software company Avast, it means the same thing. UK-based Avast Limited told consumers that using its software would protect their privacy by preventing the tracking and collection of their browser information. But according to the FTC, from 2014 to 2020, guess who was tracking consumers’ browser information and then selling it to more than 100 other companies through an affiliate called Jumpshot? Ironically enough, Avast Limited. We’re not sure how much the $16.5 million financial remedy is in doubloons, but we hope the terms of the proposed settlement will remind other companies to relegate conduct like that to Davy Jones’ Locker….
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Source: Fast Company
https://www.bespacific.com/meet-the-shady-companies-helping-governments-hack-citizens-phones/
Fast Company: “Named for the winged horse of Greek mythology and often sent by text message, Pegasus can burrow into your phone without your knowledge or even your click, hiding for days or weeks inside, surreptitiously recording everything—messages, photos, encrypted chats, and video and audio—in real-time. Exactly where your data is going often remains a mystery, lost in a tangle of servers. But the deadly impacts of Pegasus and other cyberweapons—wielded by governments from Spain to Saudi Arabia against human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and others—is by now well documented. A wave of scrutiny and sanctions …
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Source: InsideBigData
https://www.bespacific.com/survey-finds-workers-are-putting-businesses-at-risk-by-oversharing-with-genai-tools/InsideBigData
“Our friends over at Veritas just released a new survey revealing that workers are oversharing with generative AI tools, putting businesses at risk. Nearly a third (31%) of global office workers admitted to inputting potentially sensitive information into generative AI tools, such as customer details or employee financials. Other key findings include:…Download the “Survey: Generative AI in the Workplace” report HERE. [12-page PDF — mostly big charts]
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Source: UPI.com
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/22/justice-department-jonathan-mayer-chief-ai-officer/3681708648632/
Feb. 22 (UPI) — The U.S. Justice Department has appointed its first chief artificial intelligence officer amid rising concerns about the ethics of AI. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of Jonathan Mayer as chief science and technology adviser and chief AI officer, a designation that will help the Justice Department “keep pace with rapidly evolving scientific and technological developments.”
Mayer, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, will advise the Justice Department on matters such as cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and recruiting technical expertise to bolster the department’s technological capabilities.
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Source: UPI.com
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2024/02/22/google-pauses-gemini-ai/9211708616979/
Feb. 22 (UPI) — Google Thursday said it is pausing its Gemini AI image creation after it created inaccurate historical images.The company said in a statement on X that they were “working to address recent issues with Gemini’s image generation feature.”
The AI model inaccurately created images of U.S. Founding Fathers as people of color and also created images of Nazi-era German soldiers as people of color.
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