First-Person Identity Theft Story

Bruce Schneier’s blog roundup highlights multiple privacy and security risks: a personal identity-theft case where a user gave away an MFA code and lost control of their email (underscoring email as a single point of failure); MIT’s plan to deploy 500+ AI-enabled surveillance cameras capable of face/object classification and behavioral tagging with 30-day retention; a wrongful identification and arrest caused by errors in Flock license-plate–tracking AI; a reported vulnerability in FIFA’s network exposing poor access controls; and research that could turn displays into cameras (Fourier pixels)