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+30 +4Why police use of facial recognition risks miscarriages of justice
The latest generation of police surveillance tools are overused, underregulated and often completely wrong, opponents tell Josh Marcus and Alex Woodward
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+45 +8Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare”
All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
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+51 +7Future of iMessage safe in the UK, as government backs down
The future of iMessage in the UK had seemed in doubt
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+36 +5Australian Government, Of All Places, Says Age Verification Is A Privacy & Security Nightmare
In the past I’ve sometimes described Australia as the land where internet policy is completely upside down. Rather than having a system that protects intermediaries from liability for third party c…
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+44 +74 Zoom alternatives with better video conferencing privacy policies
More than half of remote meetings are held with Zoom, but that was before privacy concerns disrupted its market. Now, it's time to look at other video conferencing services.
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+30 +3Meta uses your Facebook data to train its AI. Here's how to opt out (sort of)
Meta will use your personal data in its large language model Llama 2. But you can fine-tune what data it can access.
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+43 +6Police Are Getting DNA Data From People Who Think They Opted Out
Forensic genetic genealogists skirted GEDmatch privacy rules by searching users who explicitly opted out of sharing DNA with law enforcement.
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+39 +5$5 billion Google lawsuit over “Incognito mode” tracking moves a step closer to trial
Did you know that private browsing modes aren’t very private?
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+46 +7Zoom is entangled in an AI privacy mess
The popular video conferencing platform's recent privacy and AI policy changes have exploded in the company's face. Here's what to know.
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+40 +8Norway Took On Meta’s Surveillance Ads and Won
Meta has long fought Europe's demands that it get people's consent before using their data for targeted ads. Then a Norwegian regulator threatened fines of $100,000 per day.
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+38 +8Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
The agency opposes an amendment that prevents it from using data brokers.
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+34 +4Microsoft and Google may have to surrender people's data to Saudi Arabia after signing huge deals there
Saudi Arabia is seeking to be an innovation hub, but activists are warning that tech firms could be complicit in the repression of dissidents.
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+24 +7Google admits it’s training AI on scraped web data
Looks like the cat is out of the Bard.
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+29 +4Facebook could be tracking your online Plan B or HIV test purchases
Twelve of the largest drug stores in the U.S. sent shoppers’ sensitive health information to Facebook or other platforms.
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+29 +2The FTC Forces Ring to Take User Privacy Seriously
Amazon’s surveillance doorbell company Ring has reached a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission which will require the company to pay $5.8 million over its inability to keep private footage and audio collected from users’ homes.
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+18 +3DNA Testing Startup Lied To Customers About Deleting Their Data, FTC Alleges
A genetic testing company is under fire from the Federal Trade Commission for failing to protect customer data.
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+28 +610 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?
Spies gonna spy
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+26 +3Chainguard Unveils Speranza: A Novel Software Signing System
With Speranza, you'll be able to use Sigstore project signing without compromising your privacy.
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+27 +4FTC Says Ring Employees Illegally Surveilled Customers, Failed to Stop Hackers from Taking Control of Users' Cameras
The Federal Trade Commission charged home security camera company Ring with compromising its customers’ privacy by allowing any employee or contractor to access consumers’ private
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+33 +6Amazon’s Ring doorbell was used to spy on customers, FTC says in privacy case
In the agency’s latest effort to hold big tech accountable, the company agreed to settle the privacy violations for $5.8m
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