'I see the latest scams every day – Gen Z are now the ones losing most money'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/i-see-latest-scams-every-36899886

Stunned that I was being presented with a pay-to-play scheme, I immediately forwarded the email to my publisher’s marketing team, to see if it really was legit (although I assumed it wasn’t).

Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ApY21

#Authors #Scams #AI

FFS its not "Sideloading", its installing applications on a device I own.

#android #google #scams #malware #fdroid #foss #privacy #lineageos #grapheneos

Ill keep flogging this dead horse**... show me the evidence that the average person is directly installing malware APK from attackers. This has NOTHING to do with protecting users.

As an Incident Responder, all the Android malware I have seen in my user community has been downloaded directly from the Google Play Store. All the scams I have seen have originated from ads within apps installed from the Google Play Store.

If Google cared about scams and malware then they should get their app store and ad platform under control. The fact they report removing thousands of malicious apps from the app store shows that this is where they should focus their efforts.

**Currently, the user needs to enable developer mode by multiple clicking the config menu, approving third party app installs, then again go through multiple windows confirming the install. Not exactly a one click install process.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/google-adds-24-hour-wait-for-unverified.html

#android #google #scams #malware #fdroid #foss #privacy #lineageos #grapheneos

Pretty busy day but I've squeezed in a bit of time to summarise the the new US National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence that was released this afternoon by the White House.

While always dubious of stuff coming out of the Trump Administration, the document does look surprisingly sensible😅 They're definitely taking a page out of the discussions happening in Europe and UK in the last 2 months. Only a couple points I really dislike.

Here's a summary of key points (ordered by my preference of importance):

📌The Trump Administration is making "protecting children and adult victims from deepfake abuse" a key point. I was asked about these issues on the live BBC Your Voice panel discussion programme in mid-Feb.

📌Congress should create federal datasets and make them available for industry and academia in "AI-ready formats for use in training AI models and systems" [😬 Not sure about this! ]

📌Trump administration supports allowing AI models to be trained on copyrighted works, but they are happy for the Courts to work it out if you're not happy, so feel free to sue

📌Congress should consider working on "licensing frameworks or collective rights systems for rights holders to collectively negotiate compensation from AI providers, without incurring antitrust liability".

📌Nothing about preventing AI replacing your job, but American workers and youths should be given AI skills workforce training by Congress, and it should study trends in "task-level workforce realignment driven by AI"

📌Individual states are not allowed to penalise AI developers for unlawful conduct by a third party using their AI models [this raises a huge question about insurance🤔]

📌Small AI startups to be given grants and tax incentives to help boost AI deployment across the US

📌Congress should prevent the US government from compelling tech firms and AI providers to "ban, compel or alter content based on partisan or ideological agendas" and the public should be able to seek redress if they feel expression is censored on AI platforms

📌The US Congress is to insist on "robust" tools to help parents manage children's privacy settings on social media, as well as new features that reduce the risk of sexual exploitation and self-harm to minors

📌I absolutely adore this point:
"Congress should avoid setting ambiguous standards about permissible content, or open-ended liability, that could give rise to excessive litigation."

📌Congress should help existing law enforcement efforts to combat AI-enabled impersonation scams

📌Congress must ensure people don't pay increased electicity costs from new AI data centres being built, but should make federal permits easier to get for AI infrastructure construction

Paper: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/03.20.26-National-Policy-Framework-for-Artificial-Intelligence-Legislative-Recommendations.pdf

#AI #generativeAI #techpolicy #WhiteHouse #Trump #scams #SocialMediaBan #copyright #copyrightinfringement #technews #technology

The illusion of generosity online

https://negativepid.blog/the-illusion-of-generosity-online/

#influencers #giveaways #fakeCharities #scams #onlineScams #fraud #internetFraud #identityTheft #onlineIdentity #romanceScams #financialScams #socialMedia #accounts #negativepid

Engadget: Tech companies are teaming up to combat scammers. “As first reported by Axios, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Adobe, Levi Strauss & Co, Target, Pinterest and Match Group announced the signing of the Industry Accord Against Online Scams and Fraud. The new agreement is meant to put up a united industry-wide front against online fraud and scams, particularly those […]