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Google is rolling out a new Search Services History setting that saves users' uploaded media for AI training, enabled by default. This article explains how to opt out and highlights privacy concerns.
The FCC proposes requiring ID verification for prepaid burner phones to combat robocalls, raising privacy concerns and potential harm to domestic violence survivors, journalists, and whistleblowers who rely on anonymous communication.
Moxie Marlinspike's Confer is developing end-to-end encryption for AI chats, with posts on connectors, encrypted memory, private inference, and more.
OpenAI's June 2026 updates transform ChatGPT into an active agent that integrates deeply with Gmail, Outlook, and Slack, coupled with the Dreaming V3 memory overhaul, raising serious privacy and security concerns as the AI continuously monitors and profiles users' digital lives.
The White House's new mobile app is automatically installed on government-issued phones of federal employees, who report being unable to remove it and describe it as propaganda delivery.
A user shares their positive experience using openclaw to aggregate messy health data from three sources (fitness watch, text messages, handwritten notes) for a cardiology appointment, including resolving scheduling conflicts, merging data, and ensuring privacy.
An open-source OSINT tool based on Python that can quickly query personal information associated with phone numbers, such as carrier, location, and line type.
This paper introduces natural identifiers (NIDs) for post-hoc privacy auditing and dataset inference in large language models, eliminating the need for retraining or held-out datasets.
FedUP proposes a one-shot federated unlearning framework that uses lightweight, pluggable filters guided by differentially private class centroids to efficiently remove specific knowledge without multi-round communication, achieving low latency and inherent reversibility.
Cyclic denoising is introduced as a novel extraction attack that reveals ultrastable memorized training images in diffusion models by repeatedly noising and denoising samples. The technique requires no gradients or weight inspection and has implications for privacy auditing.
A new report from activist groups documents the rapid expansion of surveillance infrastructure through partnerships between tech companies and federal agencies, including facial recognition, social media scraping, and deportation tools, raising concerns about authoritarian control and democratic erosion.
The article criticizes a website (Pangram) for validating email addresses by sending a spam email to the entered address, highlighting a poor and deceptive practice in email verification.
WIRED reports that Dialog's alleged hack was actually a misconfiguration of its website, exposing personal data of members including senior government and tech figures. The data was publicly accessible without authentication.
Dot Loom is an open-source orchestration layer that coordinates multiple AI models into a single inference system, supporting various providers. It acts as a router, drafter, verifier, and finalizer.
FUTO releases FUTO Swipe, an open family of models and algorithms for fast, accurate swipe typing on mobile devices, with a small footprint and a C++ library for inference.
A new open-source Python tool allows anyone to pull personal information linked to any phone number via terminal, including carrier, location, and identity traces.
Cloudflare is working with major browsers to create a new privacy-first protocol for the global internet.
Mozilla and Cloudflare are collaborating with other browsers on a new initiative to combat bot abuse while preserving user privacy, proposing a rate-limiting approach with anonymous vouching instead of invasive verification methods like CAPTCHAs or Web Environment Integrity.
Cory Doctorow argues that proposed age verification mandates for children online are actually mass surveillance schemes that will lead to VPN bans, ultimately harming privacy rather than protecting kids.
Madison Square Garden compiled a dossier on activists who criticized its use of facial recognition, including their tweets and personal information, which was exposed in a data breach.