#Privacy

Articles (30)

• 🇺🇸 Judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Massachusetts voter data — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  A federal judge in Boston dismissed a lawsuit from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that sought access to Massachusetts state voter rolls amid the Trump administration's push for registration lists fro...

  Related: #Election Law, #Federalism
• 🇺🇸 Little Snitch’s software counter surveillance jumps from Mac to Linux — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  The popular macOS app Little Snitch brought its network-monitoring tools over to Linux this week. In a blog post announcing the launch, one of the developers at Objective Development shared some early...

  Related: #Software Development, #Open Source
• 🇺🇸 PSA: If you use the Meta AI app, your friends will find out and it will be embarrassing — 10/04/2026 [USA]

  Now that Meta released its Muse Spark model, more people are downloading the Meta AI app. And if you join the app, your friends will probably get an Instagram notification about it.

  Related: #Social Media, #Technology Ethics
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Housemaid’ Author Finally Shares Real Identity — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  The bestselling author has been writing under her pseudonym.

  Related: #Author Identity, #Publishing
• 🇺🇸 Scaled-back digital ID scheme can combat populism, UK minister says — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Darren Jones tells FT that legislation for contentious proposal will be introduced after the summer

  Related: #Technology Policy, #Governance
• 🇺🇸 This AI Wearable From Ex-Apple Engineers Looks Like an iPod Shuffle — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Two former Apple Vision Pro developers made an AI wearable that only listens when you tap it. They hope to win where other AI gadgets have fumbled: privacy.

  Related: #Artificial Intelligence, #Wearable Technology
• 🇺🇸 PSA: Anyone with a link can view your Granola notes by default — 02/04/2026 [USA]

  If you use the AI-powered note-taking app Granola, you might want to double-check your privacy settings. Though Granola says your notes are "private by default," it makes them viewable to anyone with ...

  Related: #AI Technology
• 🇺🇸 OkCupid settles claims it shared user photos with a facial recognition company — 31/03/2026 [USA]

  Dating app OkCupid agreed to settle claims from the Federal Trade Commission that it deceived millions of users by sharing their photos with a third-party facial recognition company without their cons...

  Related: #Regulation
• 🇺🇸 Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant — 25/03/2026 [USA]

  Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

  Related: #Surveillance
• 🇺🇸 Apple Maps will introduce ads this summer — 24/03/2026 [USA]

  Apple will soon allow businesses to buy advertisements in its Maps app. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple says ads may appear at the top of your search results in Maps, as well as in a new "Suggest...

  Related: #Digital Advertising
• 🇺🇸 The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  Between pickup artists and juvenile pranksters, the wearable device is becoming associated with pests of all kinds.

  Related: #Technology Ethics
• 🇺🇸 MAPLE: Metadata Augmented Private Language Evolution — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.19258v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) is a powerful tool, it is often computationally prohibitive or infeasib...

  Related: #Language Evolution
• 🇺🇸 The Danger Behind Meta’s Decision to Kill End-to-End Encrypted Instagram DMs — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino to fall for end-to-end encryption tech worldwide.

  Related: #Tech Policy
• 🇺🇸 Progressives say they'll vote against warrantless spy power renewal — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) formally voted to oppose reauthorization of the nation’s warrantless surveillance powers, a move that could signal difficulty for a House GOP tasked with mee...

  Related: #Surveillance
• 🇺🇸 From Weak Cues to Real Identities: Evaluating Inference-Driven De-Anonymization in LLM Agents — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Anonymization is widely treated as a practical safeguard because re-identifying anonymous records was historically costly, requiring domain expertise, ...

  Related: #AI Security
• 🇺🇸 PlanTwin: Privacy-Preserving Planning Abstractions for Cloud-Assisted LLM Agents — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.18377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cloud-hosted large language models (LLMs) have become the de facto planners in agentic systems, coordinating tools and guiding execution over local e...

  Related: #AI Planning
• 🇺🇸 Signal’s Creator Is Helping Encrypt Meta AI — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.

  Related: #AI Security
• 🇺🇸 Consumer-focused privacy company Cloaked raises $375M as it expands to enterprise — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  Cloaked's latest round is a mix of equity and growth funding.

  Related: #Funding, #Enterprise Expansion
• 🇬🇧 Apple issues spyware alert to iPhone users — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Apple is urging users to update their iPhones after the discovery of new spyware that can take over phones running older versions of the iOS operating system.

  Related: #Cybersecurity, #Tech Alerts
• 🇺🇸 WebPII: Benchmarking Visual PII Detection for Computer-Use Agents — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer use agents create new privacy risks: training data collected from real websites inevitably contains sensitive information, and cloud-hosted ...

  Related: #Benchmarking, #AI Agents
• 🇺🇸 Privacy and Safety Experiences and Concerns of U.S. Women Using Generative AI for Seeking Sexual and Reproductive Health Information — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.16918v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI (GenAI) chatbots has reshaped access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information, particularly following ...

  Related: #AI Safety, #Women's Health
• 🇺🇸 Anonymous-by-Construction: An LLM-Driven Framework for Privacy-Preserving Text — 19/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.17217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Responsible use of AI demands that we protect sensitive information without undermining the usefulness of data, an imperative that has become acute i...

  Related: #AI
• 🇺🇸 FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

  Related: #Surveillance
• 🇺🇸 IdentityGuard: Context-Aware Restriction and Provenance for Personalized Synthesis — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.15679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The nature of personalized text-to-image models poses a unique safety challenge that generic context-blind methods are ill-equipped to handle. Such g...

  Related: #Synthesis
• 🇬🇧 Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May — 18/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Meta’s announcement comes after years of criticism from child safety groups over feature</p><p>Instagram will stop encrypting private messages between users from May, after enduring years of critic...

  Related: #Social Media
• 🇬🇧 Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: its huge screen blocks shoulder surfers from spying on you — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Latest Android superphone packs great cameras, fast chips, long battery, a stylus and first-of-its-kind privacy display</p><p>Samsung’s latest Ultra superphone promises to keep shoulder surfers out...

  Related: #Technology
• 🇬🇧 Royals and celebrities warned to watch words as lip-reading videos go viral — 15/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Advisers say to ‘assume the cameras are always rolling’ as exchanges can be decoded in seconds and posted online</p><p>Royals and celebrities are being warned by their representatives and advisers ...

  Related: #Social Media
• 🇺🇸 Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: show off — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  "Someone might be watching everything I'm doing on my screen," I tell myself in public. Even when I'm doing nothing of consequence - just making my little Wordle guesses - there's a sense of unease th...

  Related: #Smartphone Innovation
• 🇺🇸 Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: The Privacy Screen — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  There's not much else groundbreaking about the company's latest flagship, but the built-in privacy display works well without much trade-off.

  Related: #Technology
• 🇺🇸 Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature beca...

  Related: #Platform Changes