For the first time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has formally demanded that OpenAI disclose the identity of a ChatGPT user whose prompts appeared in a child pornography investigation. The warrant—issued to agents...
Google has officially acknowledged the failure of its long-running privacy initiative in the Chrome browser, announcing the termination of the Privacy Sandbox program. Launched with the ambitious goal of replacing tracking cookies with safer...
Pavel Durov announced that Telegram had sent a message to its users in France, warning them about an attempt by the European Union to pass a law that would require messaging platforms to scan...
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),...
LinkedIn has once again found itself confronting large-scale attempts to harvest user data — this time, the company has filed a lawsuit against ProAPIs, accusing it of orchestrating an extensive network of fake accounts...
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...
The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, has decided to publicly dispel a long-standing myth: that Meta secretly activates users’ microphones and eavesdrops on their conversations in order to deliver more precise advertising. This notion...
Microsoft has severed its partnership with Israel’s military intelligence unit Unit 8200, cutting off its access to the company’s cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence services. The decision followed revelations that Microsoft’s technologies had been...
In the second spot of the U.S. App Store’s social networking chart appeared an unexpected contender—Neon Mobile, an application that promises users the ability to earn money by recording their phone calls and selling...
Apple has appealed to the European Commission with a call to reconsider and repeal the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a law introduced to curb the influence of the largest technology corporations. The company argues...
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have demonstrated that even when encryption is employed, the actions of robotic assistants can be inferred with near-perfect accuracy. Their study revealed that by analyzing network traffic, it...
An independent researcher named Andreas, author of the blog Anagogistis, has uncovered severe vulnerabilities in the Linux clients of PureVPN, flaws that undermine the very foundations of anonymity and traffic protection. The issues affect...
