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49 stories taggedprivacy.
A New Free Tool Lets You See Who's Actually Tracking You Online
DecryptAds pulls back the curtain on the ad partners and data brokers hiding inside popular websites and apps, including some based in Russia and China.
Meta's AI Glasses Are Recording Strangers. Women Are Fighting Back.
Smart glasses that stream live video to artificial intelligence are sparking a real-world privacy revolt, with women leading the charge against being filmed in public without their knowledge.
Australia's First Live Face-Scanning Police Trial Has Already Checked 130,000 People. Experts Are Alarmed.
Western Australia Police ran facial recognition cameras across Perth and Fremantle for weeks before its own privacy watchdog got a proper look. Researchers warn the system may be least accurate for the very communities it is most likely to scan.
WhatsApp's New Scam Alert Reads Your Messages Without Leaving Your Phone
WhatsApp is testing a feature that flags suspicious messages using an AI model that runs entirely on your device. Signal is also rolling out automatic checks to confirm nobody has secretly intercepted your conversations.
Smart Glasses With Hidden Cameras Are Getting Popular. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.
Ordinary-looking eyewear that secretly records video is moving from novelty to mainstream, and the rules haven't kept up.
NSW Plans to Share Licence Photos With National Face-Matching Database
A new bill before the New South Wales parliament would connect the state to a federal facial recognition system, hand police access to toll road camera images, and let investigators apply to search seized phones and laptops. Civil liberties groups say the changes amount to mass surveillance with too few safeguards.
Apple Takes UK Government Back to Court Over Demand to Read Encrypted User Data
Apple has filed a second legal challenge against a British government order requiring access to data so heavily protected that even Apple cannot read it. The case could decide whether end-to-end encryption survives as a meaningful privacy tool in the UK.
iCloud Private Relay Has a Leak: Researchers Show How Safari's Privacy Shield Can Spill Real IPs
A flaw in how Apple's WebKit handles certain web requests lets sites see the IP address Private Relay was meant to hide.
Kmart's $89 Camera Glasses Sold Out Across Australia. Privacy Experts Are Alarmed.
A pair of smart glasses that can secretly record HD video retails for less than a restaurant dinner. Digital rights advocates say the law hasn't kept up.
AI Meeting Bot Tl;dv Left Government and Corporate Calls Wide Open
A security researcher found a misconfigured database in the popular meeting-recording app tl;dv that let anyone see live government and corporate video calls, and, in most cases, join them uninvited.
Victorian Parliamentary Committee Exposes Cult Survivors' Email Addresses in Mass Mailing Blunder
A parliamentary committee sent its final report on cult harm to 330 visible recipients, accidentally revealing the contact details of abuse survivors to the very groups they had fled.
AI Smart Glasses Are Walking Into Your Office. Nobody Knows How to Stop Them.
Samsung's entry into AI-powered glasses has forced security leaders to face an uncomfortable truth: the recording device problem is already everywhere, and a ban probably makes things worse.
Vatican Prayer App Left 700,000 Users' Names and Emails Exposed for Anyone to Grab
A basic security blunder on the Catholic Church's official Click to Pray app meant that anyone with a browser could pull the personal details of every registered user, no hacking skills required.
What is a VPN and when do you actually need one?
VPNs encrypt your internet traffic and hide your real IP address, but they are not a privacy cure-all. Here is when one genuinely helps and when it does not.
What is a data breach and what should you do after one?
A data breach happens when personal information is accessed or taken without permission. Here is exactly what that means and how to protect yourself.