Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?
As Apple prepares to launch its first smart glasses, the company is also wrestling…
TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements
The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance…
Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used is tools anyway
In an email to the Citizen Lab, which he shared with TechCrunch, Cellebrite's chief…
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
An untold number of Claude chats and Artifacts — the interactive mini apps and…
Apple rescues Hide My Email feature from the privacy scrap heap
The company confirmed an update on Monday that Hide My Email addresses "will remain"…
Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’
Much of Diamandis' Substack post is framed around giving advice to entrepreneurs or executives…
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap
The Federal Trade Commission is suing healthcare giant Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing…
Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features
Amazon's smart home division Ring said on Wednesday that it is adopting a new…
In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
It's not immediately clear how the ruling will affect past court cases. A spokesperson…
Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers
Several popular Samsung smart TV apps contain code that share the owner's internet connection…
Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well
Not everyone shares that pessimism, though. "I think the technology has evolved quite a…
WhatsApp dumps use of phone number, introduces username
A messaging platform, WhatsApp, has started rolling out username reservations as a new privacy…
Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
Among the Android apps that the EFF identified that were quietly sharing users' location…
Customers say Trump Mobile is leaking their personal information
President Trump's namesake cell phone provider and smartphone maker Trump Mobile is leaking customer…
Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Apple's Hide My Email feature is a convenient privacy tool that uses disposable addresses…
PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address
Mysk wrote in a post on X that they chose not to report the…
