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…5 /10 WIRED Great privacy controls and defaults. No Google. Relatively few app incompatibilities. Hardware is powerful enough for casual tablet use. TIRED Not all apps will work. Few tablet-specific /e…
…Privacy Blunders New Amazon hardware would have to contend with the company's checkered history in user privacy. It was ranked second to last in privacy in the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights…
…An asexual woman, who did not want to be named for privacy reasons, described AI companionship as a kind of emotional laboratory. After years in an ongoing relationship without physical intimacy due…
…Think using a VPN gives you more privacy? Think again. A letter from US lawmakers this week questioned director of national security Tulsi Gabbard over whether US surveillance authorities allow the National…
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…
…Jack Dorsey became one of GrapheneOS’s biggest supporters, along with Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin and Swiss privacy-focused company Proton AG. Edward Snowden weighed in: “If I were configuring a smartphone…
…When I spoke to Rich, he told me that he agreed to transfer his knowledge to Onix because of its privacy protections—and also because of the company’s clear communication that…
…But on the flip side, there are major privacy concerns to sharing your health data without protections.” Agrawal is concerned about users uploading sensitive data to chatbots since these commonly used AI…
…Other governments have taken notice of the privacy implications of wearables like Meta’s glasses, raising concerns about more advanced capabilities they may have in the near future. On Tuesday, Democratic senators…
…As the Mozilla Foundation reported after an in-depth investigation into the industry, many mental health apps are lax on privacy. Most failed privacy audits, failing to secure (or even outright profiting…
