Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
2026-07-01T19:23:42Z•24d1385eb8be50796109d81123009c0c0cb313dcccad20b1b34ec85a89bc77a7
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What happened
A set of security/privacy items: Papa John’s is using Instacart and NBCUniversal data to predict when consumers are low on groceries and serve targeted ads (surveillance-based advertising); AI-driven video-surveillance tools now support natural-language queries, increasing the scale and ease of mass spying; Meta is prototyping real-time facial recognition for police/military use; a drone was deployed to disarm a suspect, showing early robot-policing capabilities; research discovered a class of weak RSA public keys (moduli with many zeros) present in the wild and therefore factorable; roughly 1
Why it matters
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- 24d1385eb8be50796109d81123009c0c0cb313dcccad20b1b34ec85a89bc77a7
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- 2026-07-01T19:23:42Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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