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EU Parliament Accidentally Extends Mass Message Scanning Until 2028
Too many MEPs skipped the vote. Now service providers on Discord, Gmail, Instagram and more can read your private messages without a warrant, until 2028.
Free Android VPNs Are Leaking Your Traffic, Study of 281 Apps Finds
Researchers tested the most popular free VPN apps on Google Play. Many fail at the one job they promise: keeping your internet activity private.
Meta's New AI Tool Quietly Turns Your Instagram Photos Into Fodder for Strangers' Images
Muse Image is on by default, and unless you dig into settings, anyone can @-mention your public profile to remix your face and photos into AI-generated pictures.
Meta's New AI Tool Can Put Real People Into Fake Photos Without Asking First
Meta's Muse Image feature lets anyone generate pictures using other people's public Instagram photos. Critics say the opt-out system puts the burden in the wrong place.
DuckDuckGo browser starts blocking YouTube video ads by default
The privacy-focused browser now strips pre-roll and mid-roll ads on the world's biggest video site, joining Brave and Opera in offering built-in blocking.
Australia Raises Alarm Over AI Scribes Listening In on Doctor Visits
Federal health officials are warning that AI tools recording patient conversations in GP clinics may pose serious privacy risks — and regulators are now weighing whether new rules are needed.
AI-Powered Street Cameras Are Quietly Building a National Surveillance Grid — And Some Cities Are Walking Away
Cameras made by Flock Safety scan licence plates and flag vehicles automatically. Critics say the resulting data is a federal immigration agency's dream. A growing number of communities are cancelling their contracts.
Samsung's New Galaxy S26 Ultra Has a Screen That Blocks Nosy Neighbours — But Is That a Security Feature?
The phone's built-in privacy display is a neat hardware trick. What it can't do is protect the data sitting behind the glass.
Australian Health Websites Secretly Fed Patients' Fertility and Medication Searches to Meta and TikTok
Australia's privacy regulator has ruled that Monash IVF and Medmate broke the law by embedding invisible tracking code on their health websites — code that sent sensitive visitor data to social media giants without asking anyone's permission.
This Researcher Is Designing Clothes That Break Facial Recognition Software
A security researcher plans to unveil clothing patterns that confuse the AI systems governments use to track people in public — without their knowledge or consent.
Supreme Court Extends Fourth Amendment Shield to Cell-Site Location Data
A geofence warrant case gives the Court a vehicle to rule that historical location records tied to a phone are constitutionally protected — full stop.
WhatsApp Starts Username Reservations, Finally Decoupling Identity From Phone Numbers
The optional handle system lets users be reachable without exposing an E.164 number — a meaningful identifier change for a 3-billion-user directory.
Google to Harvest UK and EU IP Addresses for Ad Targeting Starting August 2026
The same signal Google once branded a privacy red flag becomes a measurement tool, just as the ICO sharpens its consent rules.
UK's Under-16 Social Media Ban Turns Every Signup Into an Identity Checkpoint
Spring 2027 rules will force ID uploads or face scans at account creation. The IAM bill comes due — and so does the breach surface.
US Surveillance Capabilities Temporarily Halted by Congressional Inaction
Congressional impasse leaves Section 702 in limbo, halting some warrantless surveillance.