…Alexander Hanff, a privacy consultant and occasional contributor to The Register, contends this makes Claude Desktop "spyware" and amounts to a violation of European privacy law. "I want to be blunt," Hanff…
…But an analysis of its code shows that the agent can exercise far more control over people's computers than even the most clear-eyed reader of contractual terms might suspect. It…
…privacy, an area where Microsoft's track record speaks for itself. "Your Copilot Health conversations and data are isolated from general Copilot and kept under additional access, privacy, and safety controls," insist…
…other firms flogging enterprise AI platforms with an open-source alternative it says provides data privacy guarantees proprietary products never could. Mozilla Foundation subsidiary MZLA, mostly known for maintaining the Thunderbird email…
…In 2019, Google announced its Privacy Sandbox initiative "to develop a set of open standards to fundamentally enhance privacy on the web," including by smudging browser fingerprints. The company blamed the rise…
…Anthropic is using Persona, a privacy checker that rings alarm bells for the paranoids on Reddit Anthropic may check your ID before letting you access certain Claude features, and the verification vendor…
…Encrypted app gets one-click privacy toggle Poisoned WhatsApp API package steals messages and accounts Then the malware alters the User Account Control (UAC) settings, attempting to launch cmd.exe with elevated…
…In an attempt to make things right, Marquis offered victims one month's free membership to a service from Epiq Privacy Solutions that's meant to monitor misuse of personal information and…
OSes You can finally control serial devices from Firefox Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the…
…One of the justifications is to facilitate the new parental controls in Flatpak , which are still in the draft stage. The change comes after the various bits of new legislation to bring…