… Finally, we detailed Russia’s effort to create a local competitor to Starlink satellite internet service—with all the privacy and security concerns that entails. And there’s more. Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… 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 provided input about Private Processing. …
… 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 Security Agency to target people who use a VPN. …
… Total privacy.” But the information listed below on that same page, under the privacy section, appears to contradict that. …
… Just because you can remove Gemini Nano from Chrome doesn't mean you necessarily should—or that doing so is better for your privacy. …
… The better the privacy tool, of course, the more it becomes associated with criminality. It’s hard to win at cybersecurity. …
… But Moxie knows what he's doing and has a solid track record.” The complexity of developing encryption schemes for AI platforms is a major hurdle, and much of the privacy work so far has focused on accessible open source models or building privacy layers between AI companies and end users. …
… Mistakenly exposed cloud repositories are a long-standing privacy and digital security problem, but these open data troves typically belong to companies that leave access open, exposing corporate secrets or customer information, because of misconfigurations or other oversights. …
… Still our biometric data is perhaps the most personal data we have, and allowing police and others to have access to it carries significant costs for our privacy, security, and autonomy. …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …