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.
A flaw in Zoom’s annotation feature let any meeting participant run code on another participant’s device with no clicks and no warning. The researchers who found it needed fewer than 20 AI prompts and less than a day.
The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the CHATBOT Act, and two more AI chatbot bills for kids on August 5. Here’s what each one requires, and why child safety groups, privacy advocates, and Big Tech all reacted differently.
The Government Accountability Office reviewed DOGE’s Wall of Receipts and found 2,503 contracts listed as terminated that were never cancelled, plus 96% of grant savings it could not verify at all. Here is what the audit actually found and why the dashboard was the problem.
Apple’s Find My keeps directing strangers to homes that never had their lost iPhones. Here’s the Wi-Fi positioning flaw that creates these “magnet houses,” why the same story keeps repeating, and exactly what to do whether you lost the phone or answered the door.