Google Confirms It Still Tracks Users Who Disable Location Tracking
…It's not the first time the company has slammed into privacy problems related to its phones -- in November 2017, the company acknowledged it tracked cell phones that didn't have a…
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Yes, Google Listens to Some of Your Assistant Recordings. That's Not Surprising.
The proliferation of smart speakers has made it easier to listen to tunes and control smart home devices, but they also raise some potential privacy concerns. After all, these are internet-connected…
The Galaxy S26 Ultra's Main Selling Point Is Turning Into Its Biggest Defect
…Another common culprit? The device's coveted Privacy Display . Reddit Photos of the issue depict S26 Ultras with reddish rectangles toward the center of the screen; these bleed into plain white toward…
Next-Generation Siri Will Be an App That Auto-Deletes Chat History
Apple is working on a "ChatGPT-like" Siri app with a privacy feature that automatically deletes chats, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports . The long-awaited revamped Siri experience is purportedly a standalone…
Amazon's Ring Security Camera Let Employees Spy on Customers
…There are always going to be tensions between certain IoT devices and privacy. If you have a camera in your home and can view the output remotely, there's always going to…
Tim Sweeney: The Epic Game Store Doesn't Spy on People
Users are concerned about the Epic Game Store's privacy practices. While there's no proof of outright nefarious activity, Tim Sweeney's comments didn't tamp things down as much as…
Researchers Build Creepy Drones That Can 'See' Other Wi-Fi Devices Through Walls
The twenty-first century might be chock-full of unprecedented privacy violations, but at least we’re safe in our own homes, right? Wrong. For some reason, scientists are working on technology…
Roomba Maker Wants to Sell Maps of Your Home to Google, Amazon
One of the problems with covering the decline of privacy in the digital age is the very concept that people should have the right to control how their information is bought, sold…
Shockingly, Only Google Likes Google's Tracking Cookie Alternative
…Eliminating these cookies is a major privacy boost for the internet, and Google pledged its so-called "privacy sandbox" would not feature any similar technology . FLoC is Google's alternative to cookies…
How to visualize behavior tracking cookies with a Firefox add-on
…Last year, both the US and EU decided that privacy on the web in general, and tracking cookies in specific, should be taken seriously. As a result, both Chrome and Internet Explorer…