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Users report that OpenAI appears to have silently re-enabled the 'Improve the model for everyone' data-sharing setting in Codex, reactivating model training on their chats without explicit opt-in. Affected users are being pointed to ChatGPT data controls and OpenAI's privacy page to disable it again.
Ford announced the Ford Privacy Promise, an explicit commitment giving customers control over their connected-vehicle data, alongside a new education website and a survey of over 1,000 U.S. consumers about vehicle data privacy.
Ford pledged never to sell customer driving data to third-party data brokers, using aggregation and anonymization while letting users control data sharing. The promise follows GM's $220 million settlement over illegally selling driver data and broader industry scrutiny of connected-car privacy practices.
UK users can now opt out of having their data used by Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic for AI training, following an ICO report confirming individuals' data rights over foundation model training data and models.
A Wired investigation into why the author keeps receiving thousands of political fundraising texts meant for someone else, despite replying STOP dozens of times, revealing how the American political fundraising industry mismatches phone numbers and ignores opt-outs.
The NOIR tool on GitHub can scan domestic phones via adb over USB, generating a list of domains that exfiltrate data such as location and contacts, along with rollback commands, for checking a phone's privacy leaks.
noyb 战胜法国电子产品零售商 Fnac Darty：法国数据保护机构 CNIL 因其 App 在未获用户同意的情况下使用追踪器收集浏览数据并用于训练推荐算法，对其处以 700 万欧元罚款。
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic are backing a new IETF-proposed 'policy token' standard that lets publishers opt out of AI training scraping across multiple companies at once via their robots.txt file.
用户对当前互联网安全形势表示担忧，并转发 Sazabi 推出 BYOC（Bring Your Own Cloud）产品的消息，认为把数据和日志留在自己的云中更安全，希望更多公司采用类似方案。
Thread discussing the trade-offs of running AI locally on-device versus calling cloud APIs, covering data control, network dependencies, per-token costs, and compute requirements.
General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from 36 US attorneys general that it illegally sold driver location and driving-habit data to data brokers, potentially leading to higher insurance premiums. GM must now limit data collection and obtain express consent from drivers.
A discussion arguing that local AI deployments will surge at enterprises because companies want to keep their data private and local models are already good enough for most tasks, needing only a plug-and-play solution.
St. Lucie County in Florida declined to investigate the owners of unpermitted Flink surveillance cameras found on county roads, citing limited resources after the cameras were removed within a 30-day window. Residents and Flock's refusal to disclose ownership details have raised transparency and privacy concerns.
A developer built an open-source Claude MCP server that lets users manage and analyze WhatsApp chats—summarizing groups, flagging mentions and critical messages, and syncing data to tools like Notion, email, and calendars—with local encrypted storage for privacy.
Meta was hit with a record $25 billion fine by a New Mexico jury for nearly 44 million violations of state consumer protection laws, after the state declined to join an earlier $18 billion multistate settlement. Meta plans to appeal the ruling, which found the company knowingly misled users about data practices since 2010.
Meta faces a $25 billion New Mexico civil penalty for deceptive data-handling practices tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, arriving alongside its raised $135 billion AI capital-expenditure floor and raising questions about the future legal costs of using user data for AI training.
东北大学的研究发现，三星 Tizen、Vizio 和 Roku 的智能电视在用户关闭追踪后仍会向自动内容识别（ACR）端点发送数据，引发潜在隐私违规担忧。研究覆盖了美国约 95% 的智能电视操作系统。
Meta was ordered by a New Mexico court to pay a $25 billion penalty in a data privacy case stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, following a jury's finding of over 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices act.
The Verge 评测了售价 99 美元的 Miles Plug 车载追踪设备，它插入 OBD-II 端口，可提供实时定位、驾驶习惯分析、事故紧急响应和路边救援，并内置 AI 助手 Miles Mechanic 解读车辆故障灯。产品主打数据隐私，承诺不售卖用户数据，由前 Ring/Blink 高管创立的 Miles Labs 推出。
Meta removed controversial commercial terms that legal experts warned could permit scraping any business account's domains to train its AI models, clarifying the provisions applied only to ads and business products.