GizModo VR

MARCH 30, 2022

Last year, cybercriminals used phony law enforcement data requests to steal an unknown amount of user information from Apple and Meta. The data requests were submitted to the tech companies using hacked police email accounts, making them appear to be from legitimate government sources. Read more.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The ambitious action plan was published by five Chinese government ministries led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and includes augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality technologies. Credit: Bloomberg. That number includes both hardware and software sales. Credit: China Daily.

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GizModo VR

JANUARY 10, 2022

Europol—the government body responsible for quashing organized crime and terrorist activities across the European Union—has long been in the crosshairs of privacy advocates over its judicious use of citizen surveillance. Now, it’s looking like some European authorities are starting to feel the same; the European Data… Read more.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 25, 2023

Governments aren’t always quick on the draw when it comes to adopting new technologies. But I am seeing some interesting examples of governments showing up in the metaverse and adopting metaverse-related technologies, such as virtual reality and digital twins. But what can visitors do at the virtual HQ? Quite possibly.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 17, 2020

In all the talk about TikTok collecting the data of Americans and sending it to the Chinese government, we’ve often overlooked the broader issue of data brokers collecting the data of Americans and sending it god-knows-where. Case in point: A newly released document shows the U.S.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 11, 2022

Despite years of tech companies tracking users, gathering data on their online activities and selling it for profit, few government entities have done anything tangible to halt the hoarding of people’s online information. But it looks like the Federal Trade Commission is putting on its bright orange vest, thinking it… Read more.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

See Also: Future Business Automation: Augmented Reality Applications Fueled by IoT Data Platforms. Smart cities leverage a network of interconnected objects and machines, which use big data and digital solutions to enhance the quality of government services and citizen welfare. They can gather data safely and efficiently.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 2, 2023

This refers to applications that use algorithms (a set of instructions) to become increasingly good at performing a particular task as it is exposed to more and more data relating to that task. What types of data are there? Business data is commonly divided into one of two categories – internal and external data.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

When covid-19 cases started surging through China last year, we saw the country’s already authoritarian surveillance systems get kicked into overdrive. Officials rolled out everything from face-detecting drones and mandated movement-tracking apps to literally harvesting citizen’s blood in order to stem the flow of the… Read more.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JANUARY 23, 2023

The partnership provides accurate details of roughly 500,000 networking tools, including antennae and visualised data, allowing teams to inspect base stations before on-site work remotely. Following its recent launch, the Seoul Metropolitan Government aims to introduce the platform and its benefits to senior citizens.

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GizModo VR

JULY 16, 2020

For the past two weeks, US officials have been grilling TikTok and other China-based tech giants over potential concerns surrounding the data security of Americans who use these apps, not to mention the national security implications of these apps’ alleged allegianc e to the Chinese government. Now, it’s looking like… Read more.

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ARPost

JULY 17, 2023

If this data is communicated to other devices, it could enable the kinds of manipulative behavior shown in PRIVACY LOST. The Pace of Regulation Governments around the world respond to emerging technologies in different ways and at different paces, according to Rosenberg. It’s about finding a smart middle ground and it’s totally doable.”

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Washington state government has suffered a large data breach involving unemployment claims, potentially exposing data on more than 1.6 million people, officials admitted Monday. Read more.

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ARPost

AUGUST 8, 2023

Issues like data harvesting and online harassment pose real threats to users, and self-regulation when it comes to data protection and ethical guidelines is insufficient in mitigating such risks. Moreover, the EU data protection law applies to most XR technologies, particularly for commercial applications.

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GizModo VR

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Sony may have stopped making floppy disks over a decade ago, but that hadn’t stopped the Tokyo government from relying on the obsolete tech. At least, not until now. As part of modernization efforts, the local authorities are starting to phase out floppies in favor of digital systems, according to Nikkei Asia. Read more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Meta has faced such issues from the UK government after a young woman ended her life after such exposure. Issues such as biometric data, ethics, online behaviour, privacy, and cybersecurity will enter the growing list of concerns raised across the sector. The Metaverse and Harmful Content. Providing control.

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ARPost

APRIL 22, 2022

XR devices rely on sensitive data inputs to function and enhance users’ experience, but these data inputs also raise legitimate privacy questions … An XR device may record information about a bystander’s activities that they may not want or even be aware is being recorded by others.”. This set up the next section on security.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Data breaches have a tendency to grow past initially reported figures. Organizations don’t always know how screwed they are right away, investigations take time, and new victims are discovered amidst the wreckage. This is certainly proving to be the case with Accellion, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based based cloud provider that… Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s according to a new report out Tuesday from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a federal watchdog agency that offers congresspeople… Read more. Despite the fact that more than a dozen federal agencies regularly use facial recognition tech, there’s hardly any oversight into the systems these agencies use.

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Mashable VR

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Years after Nancy Lublin founded Crisis Text Line in 2013, she approached the board with an opportunity : What if they converted the nonprofit's trove of user data and insights into an empathy-based corporate training program? Yet the promise of such breakthroughs often overshadows the risks of misusing or abusing data.

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GizModo VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

thanks in part to government dysfunction , Google’s deploying a feature to at least help us avoid covid-19 hotspots. While contact tracing flails in the U.S. Sometime this week, Android and iOS users will be able to toggle on color-coded overlays in Google Maps, representing the concentration of positive cases on the… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Among many things, we collaborate with government entities, other trade union associations (in and out of Chile), academics, and scientists to figure out ways to reap more benefits than problems for our society through the use of these technologies. I think that governments in Latin America are interested but they face bigger issues.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 26, 2022

Despite ongoing controversy over US data collection concerns, ByteDance continues its immersive journey through its virtual reality (VR) hardware division, Pico Interactive, and its augmented reality (AR) content distribution platform TikTok. Written for the CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, and the CEO of Alphabet Inc. pic.twitter.com/dTTdQLiq26.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

With real-time geospatial data, photorealistic immersive experiences can now be accessed and applied in a wide range of industries. By merging real-world geospatial data into a robust game engine, developers can create hyperrealistic simulations and fully immersive experiences. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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GizModo VR

JUNE 1, 2022

Canadian regulators on Wednesday found that Tim Hortons—a popular fast-food chain owned by the same multinational company as Burger King—changed its mobile app in 2019 to track and collect sensitive location data on its customers. Read more.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 19, 2021

of hacking dozens of companies and government agencies. Federal prosecutors in Western Washington secured a grand jury indictment on Thursday against a Swiss national accused by the U.S. Read more.

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GizModo VR

DECEMBER 18, 2020

An executive at the videoconferencing company Zoom schemed with Beijing officials to leak user data and squash video meetings discussing the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre earlier this year, according to federal prosecutors. The Justice Department’s case races a fresh wave of concern about Zoom’s… Read more.

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Bernard Marr

JULY 25, 2023

Transitioning to a digital, data-driven model can enable companies to experience renewed growth and better position themselves to face the future. Data is critical when we look to make these transformations. In this post, I will look at some of the ways that data can be used as a catalyst for positive innovation and transformation.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

.” Criminality would expand along with the number of active users on the spatial communications platform, leading to crimes against children, data theft, financial misconduct, and assault incidences, presenting “significant challenges,” INTERPOL explained.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2022

This includes the PGA (Professional Golfers’ Association) Tour, which saw a decrease in viewers as a result of the government-mandated lockdowns. Very few have remained immune to the incomprehensible damage caused by the global pandemic. The app will also feature various social capabilities.

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GizModo VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

For at least the past two years, Russian hackers have been targeting Pentagon-linked defense contractors and subcontractors to steal sensitive data and information, U.S. authorities revealed this week. Read more.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

Nstream is “a vertically integrated streaming data application platform.” We’ve had digital twins for a while […] our evolution or our kind of learning is the visualization of that data.” Their ability to digest data is way beyond anything I could do when I was 25.” The world wide web was designed as a big data repository.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 19, 2023

Unity partnered with the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) this month to deploy large-scale enterprise-grade digital twins to ensure success in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) use cases. Moreover, users can manage data sets appearing during a session to avoid data and UI overload.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Dallas Police Department has announced that a city employee accidentally deleted eight terabytes of its data—a f**k-up that has now endangered an unknown amount of court cases that relied upon the data as evidence. Read more.

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GizModo VR

JUNE 16, 2021

Police is Western Australia have accessed private data from the state’s covid-19 check-in app at least twice to aid in a criminal investigation, despite promises the app would only be used by contact tracers. The revelations are likely to make people think twice before using the app, a public health tool that’s… Read more.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Project Aria is an AR headset prototype that Facebook is using for two things: gathering data for AI training and assessing the public’s perception & concerns of the technology. Once uploaded, captured data is kept under quarantine for three days, meaning it is not made available to researchers. Image courtesy Facebook.

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GizModo VR

MARCH 22, 2022

Follow-up data from a Phase III trial is the latest to suggest that MDMA—also known as ecstasy—could improve mental health when combined with therapy. The study found that MDMA-assisted therapy was better than talk therapy alone in relieving the symptoms of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder, and that this… Read more.

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