AI companies and data brokers even resort to fake forms to keep selling our data
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Supreme Court considering legality of smartphone location ‘dragnets’
The US Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the legality of so-called geofence warrants, sometimes also referred to as “digital…
AI chatbot privacy ratings for the most popular iPhone apps
A VPN company has put together AI chatbot privacy ratings based on the data collection practices of the ten most…
TikTok says it won’t introduce end-to-end encryption for DMs [U]
TikTok is setting itself apart from most other online platforms that offer messaging by stating that it won’t be introducing…
Google execs suggest Gemini-powered Siri will, in fact, run on Google’s own servers
During Alphabet’s Q4 2025 earnings call, CEO Sundar Pichai added to the confusion regarding where, exactly, the upcoming Gemini-powered Siri…
New EFF campaign urges Apple and other tech companies to ‘Encrypt It Already’
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is out with a new campaign that presses tech companies to move faster to protect…
Apple was fined a total of $851M last year for privacy and antitrust violations
Publicly available information reveals that Apple was fined a total of $851 million last year for privacy and antitrust violations,…
Will Apple-Google AI deal impact user privacy? Here’s what Apple says
Today Apple confirmed a new partnership with Google to power future AI features, including the upcoming Siri overhaul. But how…
Roblox requiring 9yo kids to submit a video selfie for age verification [U: Global]
Roblox, one of the most popular kids’ apps in the world, is now requiring children as young as nine years…
Apple age verification with a privacy focus would solve two problems
While Apple is currently lobbying against being given a legal responsibility for age verification when it comes to downloading apps,…
After Apple refusal, Indian government completes U-turn on mandatory iPhone app
The saga of a mandatory government security app which Apple and Google had to preinstall on their phones didn’t last…
Google’s latest AI move shows Apple is on the right track, at least in one way
Today, Google announced its own version of what Apple is doing with Private Cloud Compute, in what may be a…
2B email addresses and 1.3B passwords compromised in multiple data breaches
Some 2 billion email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords have been compromised in a series of data breaches highlighted by…
Security Bite: Beware sketchy ChatGPT-clones slipping back into App Store charts
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Proton Data Breach Observatory reports as soon as your personal data hits the dark web
Security-conscious readers probably already use the data breach alert site Have I Been Pwned, but a new Proton website is…
DHS says Chinese criminal gangs made $1B from US text scams
The Department of Homeland Security says that Chinese criminal gangs have made more than $1 billion from text scams sent…
Security Bite: This old school alias trick will show you who’s selling or leaking your email
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Security Bite: So, what happened to cross-platform E2EE for RCS messaging?
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Viral call recording app taken offline after exposing call recordings, transcripts, more
Earlier today, we covered the skyrocketing success of Neon, an app that pays users in exchange for recording their phone…
TransUnion data breach hits millions, but Gmail security reports are false
A TransUnion data breach has exposed sensitive personal information for millions of US consumers, including dates of birth and social…
370k Grok AI chats made public without user consent
More than 370,000 Grok AI chats have been published on the Grok website and indexed by search engines, making them…
Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, but not if your data was leaked
Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, as well as if it isn’t, in a new initiative. When…
EFF sides with Apple, slams Facebook’s criticism of iOS 14 privacy features as ‘laughable’
Facebook has spent the last week publicly criticizing Apple’s plans to add new privacy features to iOS 14 in early…
Facebook admits to reviewing Messenger app audio with ‘hundreds of contractors’
After Apple and Google have come under fire for using humans to review recordings of users captured by their voice…