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.
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.
Apple confirmed Siri AI enters public beta this month in English, with the EU and China left out. The feature drawing the most attention listens to the room.
Florida ordered license plate readers off state highways and Texas froze state funding for them in the same week. Dallas alone is shutting down more than 300 cameras.
There is a VPN screen buried in your iPhone settings, and a lot of people have found it and assumed they just saved themselves a subscription. It is a client, not a service. Here is what it is actually for, and what Apple ships that does protect you.
A researcher showed that a WhatsApp video call can open the full photo gallery on a locked Android phone, with no PIN, pattern or fingerprint anywhere in the chain. It worked on a fully patched Pixel and failed on a Galaxy. Here is the thirty second permission change that shuts it down.
OpenAI connected ChatGPT for Healthcare to Epic’s 325 million patient records on September 1, 2026. Access is read only, but privacy lawyers warn HIPAA protection does not travel with data patients share directly with the chatbot.
We compared TickTalk, Bark, Cosmo, and Gabb to find the best smartwatch for kids in 2026, covering GPS accuracy, battery life, real first-year cost, and the privacy questions parents should ask before buying.
A Washington Post review found chatbot transcripts surfacing in a dozen public court cases in two years. Conversations with an AI carry none of the legal protection that covers a doctor, a lawyer or a therapist, and on a work account an administrator can usually read them outright. Here is who has access to what.
The FBI’s new alert describes a phishing attack that never asks for your password. You approve a permission screen on a real Microsoft or Google page, and the attacker keeps reading your mail afterward. Resetting your password does nothing. Here is the setting that actually cuts them off.