Items tagged with Privacy
Meta has deployed an “AI support assistant” to help handle customer service requests, which is a monumental task considering the company has hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Unfortunately, hackers discovered that it was possible to...
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Law enforcement in the Netherlands has dismantled a massive global botnet that hijacked more than 17 million consumer devices worldwide. The coordinated strike targeted 200 command-and-control servers physically hosted within Dutch...
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Apple and Google have finally (FINALLY!) released end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between both ecosystems, a long-awaited upgrade that brings cross-platform privacy protections to perhaps the most rudimentary kind of smartphone...
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Google is the latest company to generate negative headlines for its AI integration, due to its Gemini AI integration into Chrome announced back in September of last year. In the months since, the feature has rolled out to users' PCs, and...
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Digital creator and software engineer Nav Toor recently alerted his followers on X to a pervasive privacy concern: most smart TVs capture screenshots of on-screen content as frequently as every 15 seconds. Perhaps more startling is that this tracking is enabled by default. This may bring back...
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The Supreme Court spent Monday wrestling with a question that sits at the fault line between mod-con and constitutional privacy: when police obtain location data to hunt for suspects, can that data include every person near a crime scene?...
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Hey Android users: Google might owe you some cash. If you’ve used an Android device with a cellular data plan in the U.S. anytime since November 2017, you could be eligible for a slice of a massive $135 million class-action settlement. The...
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A new Samsung survey of 1,000 Brits found that over half of the participants admitted to "unintentionally" taking a look at a stranger's phone while out in public, while a quarter (26%) of respondents fessed up to sneaking a peek after...
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Once upon a time, Mozilla's Firefox browser was super popular, accounting for a nearly a third of the global browser market at its peak. That has not been the case in a very long while (well over a decade), though Mozilla is hoping its...
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Meta's Smart Glasses have generally earned high praise as fashionable Augmented Reality glasses, but an upcoming update promises to add facial recognition capabilities, and at least two U.S. Senators are raising concerns. Even if you...
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FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a Senate hearing on Wednesday, "We do purchase commercially available information that's consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to...
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A sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit, suspected to have originated within U.S. government-linked development circles, has surfaced in the wild as a weapon used by both foreign intelligence services and opportunistic cybercriminals. It's...
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Modern vehicle computer systems have become vectors for security and privacy hacking. However, who would've thought that the humble and not-very-high-tech tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) would be identified as vulnerability...
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The team at Discord introduced some discord to our newsroom today. First, a company representative sent us a statement requiring us to update a previous article on its "Teen-By-Default" policy, and then it turned around and dropped a new...
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Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant is under fire for summarizing emails flagged as confidential by DLP (data loss prevention) policies specifically intended to prevent AI from accessing them. Per BleepingComputer, Microsoft began rolling out...
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During the Super Bowl, Amazon's Ring advertised a feature called Search Party in collaboration with Flock Safety, which was billed as an AI-accelerated way to make it easy for Ring customers to "help families find lost dogs" and help users...
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Discord has committed to a global rollout of "teen-by-default" settings. That means users who change some specific settings or attempt to access age-restricted content on the platform, may be prompted to verify their age. Discord age...
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A new wave of state-level proposals targeting virtual private networks has stirred up an unusual amount of alarm from digital-rights groups, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation isn't pulling punches. In a detailed critique published...
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Does your workplace use Microsoft Teams? Be wary, because the House of Windows is testing a new Teams feature that can automatically update your work location based on the Wi-Fi network you're connected to, meaning your boss might soon...
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Discord's latest security screw-up is exactly the kind of nightmare privacy advocates have been warning about since platforms started demanding government IDs for "safety." The company confirmed this week that a breach at one of its...
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Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri took to his platform to "myth bust" claims that the Meta-owned app is listening to user's microphones for the purpose of pushing targeted advertisements and related content. It has been a prominent theory across several social networking apps for many years that this...
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A company called Flock Safety is pitching a new turnkey aviation program for private enterprises to lease security drones formerly used by police departments. Part of the pitch is that these drones can track shoplifters as they flee the...
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