The timing of newly available scans—typically within a day, if not hours, of me and a small sample of other […]
Category: Privacy
I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.
Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends. I filed a request with McDonald’s earlier […]
Motorola’s GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels
So these mysterious Moto phones will presumably be well over a grand. Motorola didn’t bother releasing new versions of its […]
New surveillance tech links your phone to your license plate
Skip to content Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools. Flock license plate reader […]
A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
“I did not realize that this was going to be as big of a problem as it is,” says Solovewicz, […]
Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play
Governments around the world are suddenly very keen on online age verification requirements. In some places, this takes the form […]
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone
In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the […]
Google warns EU’s plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
Skip to content The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but […]
Meta cuts contractors who reported seeing Ray-Ban Meta users have sex
In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, […]
The hidden cost of Google’s AI defaults and the illusion of choice
Google says it respects user privacy in AI, but the reality is not so black and white. Gemini’s privacy controls […]
