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Browsing: Privacy
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.
Anthropic started contacting Claude users on August 30 after infostealer malware on their own computers lifted active login sessions. Because the attackers replay session cookies, two factor authentication never gets a chance to fire.
Simon Weckert’s Digital Camouflage shirt genuinely stops YOLO object detectors from registering that a person is there. The pattern is not decoration, it is math. Here is what it beats, and the much longer list of what it does not.
Sponsored listings are now live in Apple Maps across the US and Canada, and there is no toggle to remove them. The Personalized Ads switch in Settings does nothing here, and the one setting that does work breaks the app.
Instinct’s AI assistant sent an email without approval and kept summarizing an inbox after access was revoked. Days later, investors valued it at $2.5 billion.
A blank grey icon called Android Pulse appeared in Play Store updates last weekend, and it turned out to have been running on phones since March. Here is what Google’s hidden system service actually does, what the data safety listing declares, and why the reaction was harsher than the app deserved.
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley blames faulty SIM cards for cameras that were viewable on the open internet, and says 0.05 percent were affected. Researchers found 67 live feeds with no password at all. The two explanations do not quite line up.
A developer chasing a Bluetooth headphone glitch found AliExpress running silent audio through the Web Audio API to fingerprint visitors. No microphone involved, no way to see it happening, and no setting that turns it off.
iOS 26 let you set a custom background for individual iMessage chats. What Apple did not put in front of anyone is that the background is shared, so the person you are texting gets it on their screen too. Here is how to check and how to opt out.
A Haines City police officer searched his estranged wife’s license plate in Flock’s camera network 717 times over 22 months, picking fake justifications from a dropdown menu. Nobody noticed until the Washington Post called her.
OpenAI’s new Apple Messages plugin lets ChatGPT read, draft and send texts from your Mac. In its own documentation, OpenAI warns against persistent send approval. Here is what the plugin does, why prompt injection makes that warning serious, and how to switch the setting back.