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…the capabilities of AI systems continue to advance quickly—the policy responses need to match.” And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t…
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McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There
…a generative AI tool to extract key information before verifying details with the original document and reaching out to privacy experts. What McDonald's Calls It What My Data Says What That…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…European regulators and privacy advocates in the US questioned its legality as early as 2011, and there were concerns over whether users had meaningfully consented to the creation of biometric data. In…
There Aren’t a Lot of Reasons to Get Excited About a New Amazon Smartphone
…A phone-like device or wearable would grant Amazon that power, as well as more control over your data. Amazon recently bought Bee AI, an always-listening wearable that summarizes your conversations…
Apple’s New Siri AI Is Ready to Get Personal
…Apple is known for protecting user privacy. Even so, some experts are still nervous about how user’s personal data will be accessed. “It could have good benefits, make you super efficient…
You Can Disable Gemini in Chrome if It’s Freaking You Out
Chrome users were caught off guard by a 4-GB Google AI model baked into Chrome, sparking privacy concerns. The good news: You can easily uninstall it. The bad? You might not…
Here’s How to Opt Out of Google Search’s New AI Data Training Feature
…Ben Winters, director of AI and privacy at the Consumer Federation of America. I’m constantly overwhelmed that it's always on me to opt out of data training for every service…
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
…So the fact that it is built to be privacy preserving is significant. “It's AI that runs inside Meta's hardware security modules,” says Matt Green, a Johns Hopkins cryptographer who…
The FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones
…privacy advocates argue it also threatens a last conduit of anonymity for those seeking to evade phone surveillance—whether that’s journalists, whistleblowers, activists, or simply people seeking to avoid mass data…
Hackers Claim to Leak Stolen Madison Square Garden Data
…This week France’s domestic spy agency, the Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure (DGSI), announced it would stop using Palantir’s data and AI tools in the coming years, replacing them…