Using Google’s products and services has always been fundamentally precarious—doing so gives the world’s largest advertising company a lot of […]
Category: Privacy
Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic.
OS operators throwing out that data is “unlikely,” research author tells Ars. Smart TVs running operating systems from Samsung, Vizio, […]
Meta Muse exposes users’ personal and business secrets when they share conversations
Muse, the new general-purpose AI agent from Meta, can expose sensitive information when users share conversations through Web links, researchers […]
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Australia is considering a ban on smart glasses in certain public spaces, while courtrooms in several countries have issued bans […]
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message […]
Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
Skip to content A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent. Meta founder and […]
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver’s license was for sale
The timing of newly available scans—typically within a day, if not hours, of me and a small sample of other […]
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 […]