Tag: data collection
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French Prosecutors Investigate Apple’s Siri for Unlawful Data Collection
The French Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into Apple’s Siri voice assistant following allegations of unlawful data collection. The inquiry was prompted by a complaint from the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme (LDH), a French human rights organization, filed with the assistance of Thomas Le Bonnec, a former contractor for Apple. The complaint claims…
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Eufy Paid Users $2 Per Video of Staged Thefts to Train AI Security Cameras
The Chinese company Anker, maker of Eufy security cameras, launched an unusual campaign in late 2024: it offered users cash in exchange for video recordings of package thefts and attempted car break-ins. As reported by TechCrunch, the initiative was designed to enhance algorithms for detecting suspicious activity. From December 2024 through February 2025, the company…
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AI Browser Assistants Secretly Harvest Your Data, Study Finds
Researchers from University College London and the University of the Mediterranean in Reggio Calabria, Italy, have conducted the first large-scale investigation into privacy practices among generative AI assistants for web browsers, revealing that even the most popular and ostensibly “safe” extensions actively collect and transmit sensitive personal data—often without sufficient safeguards and, in many cases,…
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Cloudflare Accuses Perplexity AI of Evading Blocks and Impersonating Browsers to Scrape Websites
Cloudflare, the company safeguarding millions of websites from digital threats, has issued grave accusations against the AI search engine Perplexity AI. According to their investigation, this popular AI assistant employs covert methods to extract information from websites, flouting established norms and blatantly disregarding site owners’ directives. At the heart of the controversy lies the manner…
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Beyond Cookies: Study Confirms Websites Use Browser Fingerprinting for Covert User Tracking
Even erasing all cookies is no longer a safeguard against digital surveillance. A groundbreaking study conducted by a team from Texas A&M University has provided the first documented evidence that websites are indeed leveraging browser fingerprinting to track users across the internet. This so-called “browser fingerprint” is constructed from a combination of technical attributes—such as…
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Smart TVs: The Battle for Your Privacy Rages as Manufacturers Prioritize Ads Over Viewers
Many owners of Smart TV operating systems increasingly find themselves at the heart of a growing conflict—one that pits the preservation of viewer privacy against mounting pressure from the advertising industry. The crux of the matter lies in the shifting priorities of television manufacturers and software developers, who now seem more invested in harvesting user…
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EU antitrust regulators new investigation into Google mainly involves data collection
In the past few years, the European Union has conducted many antitrust investigations against Google. For example, in the Android antitrust case, the EU antitrust agency fined Google a record of $5 billion, and eventually, Google announced that the Android system for Europe was no longer free. Service charges are currently payable on Android devices…