Privacy
Signal CEO criticizes WhatsApp’s data collection: “Metadata is deadly”
Meredith Whittaker has lashed out at WhatsApp’s data collection practices.
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Privacy concerns raised over balenaEtcher ISO writing tool, Tails recommends Rufus instead
Privacy focused Linux distribution platform Tails has warned its users to choose Rufus instead of balenaEtcher when creating bootable media.
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Antwerp slammed for recording public conversations under noise pollution program
The Belgium Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ordered the municipality of Antwerp to erase sound recordings made illegally using dozens of sound sensors.
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ChatGPT vs DeepSeek: privacy laws and their relationship with intelligence agencies
There’s little public discussion about the relationship between OpenAI's cloud services and its proximity to a member of the Five Eyes?
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South Korea questions DeepSeek over a matter of national pride
South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions relating to issues of national pride.
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Avoiding Internet Surveillance: Protect Your Privacy Online
Internet surveillance is persistent and nearly unavoidable. Anything you do online – from simple googling to clicking like on a...
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When you ask an app “not to track” it tracks you anyway, and the data is sold
Even if you install just a single app on your factory-reset iPhone and ask it “Not to Track,” you still expose yourself to a vast tracking ecosystem and anyone willing to purchase your location and other sensitive data.
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Amazon created software to secretly track location data of consumers via their phones, lawsuit claims
An Amazon customer has filed a class action lawsuit in California on Wednesday, accusing the e-commerce giant of secretly collecting the geo-locations of shoppers via their cell phones – exposing sensitive details such as reproductive health and sexual orientation.
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Put your thumbs where we can see them: German court backs forced phone unlocks
Your secrets behind biometric scanners are not as secure as you’d assume. Police are allowed to use force to unlock phones and other devices using fingerprint scanners or facial recognition, a German court rules.
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46M Brits just give away their personal data
Roughly two-thirds of the UK's population give their personal data away by failing to check permissions before installing new apps on their devices.
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How to legally bypass internet censorship: effective methods and tools
Internet censorship happens when governments, companies, or organizations block or restrict access to certain websites or online content. This is...
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Allstate abused driving data of 45 million Americans, new lawsuit claims
Allstate is being sued by the Texas Attorney General over claims the insurance giant illegally collected, used, and sold the private driving data of over 45 million Americans without their knowledge or consent.
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Game developer deletes all social media accounts, suggests others should follow
No TikTok, no Facebook, no Twitter – Asylum Square, an indie German game developer behind Tiny Thor, Tombs of Myra, and other games, has had it. This time, it’s not just about reclaiming personal space.
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Interview with Internet Death Machine: hacktivism, privacy, philosophy
IDM has been the soundtrack of my life as a hacker because his music offers something we all can relate to: the free flow of information, the war for privacy, and hacktivism.
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Apple’s stealthy photo scanning feature raises privacy concerns
Users are only now discovering that their Apple devices have the “Enhanced Visual Search” feature, which sends photo data to be analyzed in Cupertino giant’s servers, enabled by default. Apple’s explanations suggest that this is done while keeping data private.
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Volkswagen systematically recording EV movement data: 800,000 owners exposed
Volkswagen Group has collected movement data from hundreds of thousands of VW, Audi, Skoda, and Seat electric vehicles. The data was also left accessible and unprotected on the internet, exposing politicians, business leaders, police, and intelligence agents, according to a report by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC).
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Firm fined for scraping data on LinkedIn
Regulators in France have fined software company Kaspr €240,000 ($249,600) for scraping data on LinkedIn.
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The hidden cost of rewards: how reward programs turn loyalty into dollars
Free rewards, exclusive discounts, VIP perks – it all sounds like a great deal. However, when you join a loyalty...
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Netflix faces €4.75M blow for secretly tracking user data
A Dutch watchdog is imposing a fine on the streaming service for failing to inform users what it does with their data.
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Microsoft Recall’s “sensitive information” filter failing to recognize credit card numbers
The controversial Microsoft Recall feature fails to filter personal data and still captures screenshots of credit card and Social Security numbers even with the “sensitive information” filter enabled, Tom’s Hardware reports.
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