Sam Altman's World brings iris-scanning digital ID to the US
Orb scanners promise "proof of humanity"
WorkComposer employee monitoring app leak exposes 21 million screenshots online
A misconfigured Amazon S3 storage bucket was the culprit
Mass phone tracking via cell tower dumps ruled unconstitutional
Phone dragnet violates Fourth Amendment, says court
New approach from DeepMind partitions LLMs to mitigate prompt injection
Secure interpreter tracks data flow to block unsafe actions triggered by manipulated text
EU provides burner phones to officials traveling to US amid espionage concerns
Washington isn't Beijing, but you can never be too careful
OpenAI is quietly working on a social network similar to Twitter, powered by ChatGPT
One goal of OpenAI's prototype is to gather real-time user data
Apple to analyze on-device data for AI training, vows to uphold user privacy
User data stays private with synthetic training methods
Researcher uncovers network of risky Chrome extensions with over 4 million installs
Many ironically promise to scan Chrome for sketchy browser extensions
Windows Recall is finally nearing launch, Microsoft suggests
Almost a year after it was supposed to arrive
"MyTerms" draft standard wants to fix what Do Not Track couldn't
A new IEEE standard proposes machine-readable contracts for digital consent
Google's Gemini AI can now see your search history to offer "better" answers
More reasons to delete your browser history
EFF launches open-source tool that can detect unauthorized cellular spying
It's easy to install with minimal costs
Next Gemini Live update lets Google's AI model see the world through your camera
Lets give these AI models "eyes" and see what happens
Google makes it easier to remove your personal information from search results
The new features are integrated directly into search results pages
Who was the tech CEO that back in 1999 said, "You have zero privacy anyway..."
Was it Google's Eric Schmidt, Scott McNealy, or Mark Cuban?
New Windows 11 preview build improves privacy for European users
Location-storing API and cloud-based data harvesting are gone, though not for everyone
AI notetakers are changing meetings, but not everyone is on board
Efficiency or invasion of privacy?
Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware
reCAPTCHA v3's checkbox test doesn't stop bots and tracks user data
UK government orders Apple to open a backdoor into all encrypted iCloud accounts
Let's see how far this goes after the dust settles
Teens aren't buying Big Tech's promises on AI and online safety
Why young users are skeptical about tech giants' ethics, privacy, and AI decisions
Amazon faces class action for covert geolocation tracking through third-party mobile apps
Lawsuit claims Amazon Ads SDK harvested sensitive user data without consent
"Everything I say leaks," complains Mark Zuckerberg in a memo that was leaked
As if that wasn't enough, a second memo warning employees about leaks was also leaked
Logitech's tiny radar sensors could let managers see if a cubicle is occupied
Still less invasive than cameras
The US Navy warns personnel against using generative AI apps such as DeepSeek
Due to "potential security and ethical concerns associated with the model's origin and usage"