First-Person Identity Theft Story
2026-07-23T07:23:45Z•83fb07698cec5a98d67509dffc5f32aaaee3d504d634c52f7888b11931e62bba
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What happened
Collection of security and privacy items: a first-person identity-theft case where a victim disclosed an MFA/email code enabling account takeover (underscoring email as a single point of failure); MIT plans to deploy ~500 AI-enabled surveillance cameras across campus capable of face/object classification, demographic inference, tamper detection, and 30-day retention; a false positive in Flock license-plate recognition (misread plate formatting) led to wrongful tracking and arrest, illustrating LPR/AI misclassification and its enforcement consequences; a report on a novel "Fourier pixel" that v
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