#Privacy
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Articles (27)
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🇺🇸 Area Man Accidentally Hacks 6,700 Camera-Enabled Robot Vacuums
[USA]
Plus: The top US cyber agency falls into shambles, AI models develop an upsetting penchant for nuclear weapons, and more.
Related: #Cybersecurity, #Artificial Intelligence, #Internet of Things (IoT), #National Security -
🇺🇸 The Epstein Files Should Never Have Been Released
[USA]
Putting millions of pages online is a sign of institutional failure.
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🇬🇧 Scottish government deletes data from school 'sex survey'
[United Kingdom]
The survey asked pupils as young as 14 about their sexual experiences but parents said they were not told about the nature of the questions.
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🇺🇸 Privacy in Human-AI Romantic Relationships: Concerns, Boundaries, and Agency
[USA]
arXiv:2601.16824v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: An increasing number of LLM-based applications are being developed to facilitate romantic relationships with AI partners, yet the safety and ...
Related: #Human-AI relationships, #Technology ethics -
🇺🇸 What Homeowners Need to Know About Smart Home Cameras
[USA]
A new Super Bowl ad is raising questions about the power of doorbell cameras.
Related: #Technology, #Consumer Rights -
🇺🇸 Rep. Chip Roy asks Bondi why some Epstein survivors' names were unredacted from files
[USA]
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas asked Attorney General Pam Bondi why some of the names of Jeffrey Epstein survivors were unredacted in files released by the Justice Department.
Related: #Justice, #Governance -
🇬🇧 Former Daily Mail editor tells trial he stopped use of private investigators
[United Kingdom]
Paul Dacre told the High Court he put the "shutters down" on unlawful newsgathering techniques.
Related: #Law, #Journalism Ethics -
🇺🇸 WATCH LIVE: Pam Bondi appears at House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight
[USA]
Bondi will face questions from lawmakers Wednesday over the Justice Department's handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein that have exposed sensitive private information about victims despite reda...
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🇺🇸 Privacy activists call on California to remove covert license plate readers
[USA]
More than two dozen privacy groups are urging California Governor Gavin Newsom to remove covert license plate readers in southern California
Related: #Surveillance, #Civil Liberties, #Technology Governance -
🇺🇸 Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’
[USA]
Shortly after Nancy Guthrie disappeared, Pima County, Arizona, Sheriff Chris Nanos said that a camera affixed to her door had been disconnected, that she did not have a subscription that would have sa...
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🇬🇧 Former Daily Mail editor tells hacking trial allegations are 'preposterous'
[United Kingdom]
Paul Dacre told the High Court the claims that Daily Mail staff gathered information unlawfully are "inconceivable".
Related: #Media Law, #Journalism Ethics -
🇺🇸 Epstein Directed Aide to Obtain Hidden Video Cameras
[USA]
“I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now,” the aide replied in the 2014 email exchange.
Related: #Criminal Investigation, #Surveillance -
🇺🇸 Google expands tools to let users remove sensitive data about themselves from Search
[USA]
Users will be able to more easily request the removal of results that include private information or non-consensual explicit imagery.
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🇺🇸 India makes Aadhaar more ubiquitous, but critics say security and privacy concerns remain
[USA]
India's Aadhaar is moving into wallets, hotels and policing through a new app. Critics say that amid the broader Aadhaar rollout, it's unclear how data shared through the new app would prevent breache...
Related: #Technology, #Governance -
🇺🇸 Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps
[USA]
According to TechCrunch’s ongoing tally, including the most recent data spill involving uMobix, there have been at least 27 stalkerware companies since 2017 that are known to have been hacked, or leak...
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🇺🇸 Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers’ payment records
[USA]
More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
Related: #Cybersecurity, #Digital Rights -
🇺🇸 'I’m obsessed with bar livestreams. All the drama of a night out - from my sofa'
[USA]
There's been a surge in people watching such streams on TikTok, but bars say they face sanctions.
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🇺🇸 Sir Elton calls press intrusion into his baby son 'truly sickening'
[USA]
The musician says his privacy was breached in relation to health issues and the birth of his son.
Related: #Media Ethics, #Legal Action, #Celebrity Culture -
🇺🇸 We had sex in a Chinese hotel, then found we had been broadcast to thousands
[USA]
A couple who stayed in Shenzhen discovered their intimate moments were filmed as spy-cam porn.
Related: #Crime, #Technology -
🇺🇸 Firefox will soon let you block all of its generative AI features
[USA]
Starting with Firefox 148 arriving later this month, users will find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings.
Related: #Technology, #User Control, #AI Integration -
🇺🇸 Epstein Victims Outraged Over Unredacted Info, and the Supreme Court Made Itself More Secretive
[USA]
Plus, big firsts at the Grammy Awards.
Related: #Transparency, #Cultural Recognition, #Legal Controversy -
🇺🇸 AlphaTON launches Claude AI connector for Telegram with privacy focus
[USA]
Related: #Technology, #Innovation, #Messaging
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🇺🇸 Trump sues IRS and Treasury for $10 billion over leaked tax info
[USA]
President Donald Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion
Related: #Politics, #Law, #Finance - 🇺🇸 Trump files $10 bln lawsuit against IRS, Treasury over leaked tax records [USA] Related: #Legal, #Economy, #Politics
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🇺🇸 Apple’s new iPhone and iPad security feature limits cell networks from collecting precise location data
[USA]
The new security feature makes it more difficult for police and malicious hackers to obtain a person's precise location data from a cell phone company.
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🇺🇸 Gap-K%: Measuring Top-1 Prediction Gap for Detecting Pretraining Data
[USA]
arXiv:2601.19936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The opacity of massive pretraining corpora in Large Language Models (LLMs) raises significant privacy and copyright concerns, making pretraining data...
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🇺🇸 Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy
[USA]
OpenAI is fighting the New York Times’ demand for 20 million private ChatGPT conversations and accelerating new security and privacy protections to protect your data.
Related: #Technology, #Legal