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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.
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.