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Stories about who is collecting your data, what they do with it, and the tools, laws and settings that help you take some of that control back.
A personal finance feature called Claude Money surfaced inside Anthropic’s iOS app. It would read your balances, your transactions and the name of every merchant you pay. Here is what it can see, what it cannot, and the questions nobody has answered.
A hacker collective removed a Flock license plate reader and copied its data. Analysts found the decryption key sitting on an unencrypted partition, software that detects people, and 1.6 million images from 21 days on one road.
Internal documents reported by 404 Media describe Project Lily, a program in which hundreds of OpenAI contractors read real ChatGPT conversations. Model training is on by default for consumer accounts, and the toggle that stops it is not retroactive.
For $3.99 a month, Instagram Plus shows you how many times each person rewatched your story. The same subscription lets people watch your story without appearing at all. Both features are in the same app, and they quietly cancel each other out.
Google’s September Android Drop lets you tell Gemini where you stored your passport or spare keys, saved in a new Remembered Items tab in Find Hub. It is a note with a photo, not a location signal, and understanding that difference decides whether it helps you.
iOS 27 lets you pause location sharing with one specific person for 12 hours, and they are never told. Apple’s stated use case is planning a surprise. The design decision underneath it is more interesting than the jokes about it.
Live Rewind on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 shows you a text version of the last 15 seconds of speech. Apple insists no recording exists at any point. The explanation comes down to one walled off corner of the new S11 chip.
Daily Brief has left the Gemini paywall and is rolling out to free users in the US. Switching it on means connecting Gmail, Calendar and Gemini’s memory, which is a different kind of price than $20 a month.
California signed twelve child safety bills on September 10, including civil penalties of up to $1 million per child injured and a ban on algorithmic feeds for users under 16. The penalty is not the interesting part. The venue is.
IDScan.net has confirmed that hackers accessed its cloud environment, nine days after a dark web marketplace began advertising more than 153 million driver’s license scans. Here is what was taken and what actually helps.