Privacy & Surveillance
- Inside ZCode: Silently uploading your Git history to the cloud
- Data collected by cars and sold to third parties
- Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
- LG says we're fake news [video]
- Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard
- Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun"
- Claude is only available to people over 18 years
- Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting
- Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening
- Apple Watch Series 12
- Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
- Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit
- LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
- DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits
- GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
- 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
- Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
- Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
- Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
- O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11
- I don't have a smartphone or at least I wish I didn't
- Saving money on Google Photos with Immich: Your own personal photo storage
- Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
- iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
- MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
- Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera
- AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
- Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
- Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
- Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
- An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
- How to disable or avoid intrusive AI
- Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA
- Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers
- Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker
- The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist
- Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
- Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
- Every Fucking Website (2020)
- I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program
- License plate reader searches should require a warrant
- Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
- London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces
- The UK's war on anonymity has come to America
- 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
- Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse
- Everything you do is being recorded
- Fastmail offers EU data region
- Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
- All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen
- Flock's CEO Faced Me After Its Cameras Led to My Wrongful Stop
- ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children
- BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat
- BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
- Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
- 1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed
- Deflock Casa Grande
- Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification
- The growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras
- Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
- LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
- ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
- Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
- The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
- GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
- Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign
- Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
- Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history
- European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS
- Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training
- LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
- Precursor
- Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance
- Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS
- What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis
- Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
- Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID
- Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says
- Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote privacy in age assurance
- Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
- We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky
- European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
- Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
- Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast
- IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet
- Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best
- Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
- Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
- What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
- Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too
- Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs
- Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
- Never Give Them Your Face
- Who owns your ATProto identity?
- Identity verification on Claude
- Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
- Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)
- Want your images back? That'll be $5
- Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless
- Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
- Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
- Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
- Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones
- AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
- Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
- The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy
- GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS
- Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
- Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
- Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
- Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left
- Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
- A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)
- Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?
- Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
- What Is a Dickover?
- Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots
- Cars collect a startling amount of data about you
- I analysed 20 years of my chats
- What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications
- Training our own AI models
- Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes
- Oura says it gets government demands for user data
- Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police
- After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban
- The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
- Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS
- At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025
- London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
- U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app
- OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid
- Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
- Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
- Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
- I moved my digital stack to Europe
- I’ve banned query strings
- EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
- Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
- Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
- Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
- A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking
- Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers
- LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb
- Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
- Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache
- The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars
- US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants
- Do_not_track
- America's Expanding Domestic Surveillance
- City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo
- Flock cameras keep telling police a man who doesn't have a warrant has a warrant
- Apocalypse Early Warning System
- Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
- Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
- LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions
- How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]
- Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
- OpenTrafficMap
- Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey
- Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
- EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs
- Refuse to let your doctor record you
- Using the internet like it's 1999
- Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys
- Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
- Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
- We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
- GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
- Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs
- Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training
- OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”
- We accepted surveillance as default
- Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI
- Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it
- Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page
- Airline worker arrested after sharing photos of bomb damage in WhatsApp group
- Ban the sale of precise geolocation
- Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs
- Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?
- Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
- Stop Flock
- I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program
- They See Your Photos
- Android now stops you sharing your location in photos
- JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware
- You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
- FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
- New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK
- Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?
- The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts
- US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
- Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made
- Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept
- Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses
- Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak
- NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns
- Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was
- LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
- Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban
- FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data
- ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
- I decompiled the White House's new app
- If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos
- New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
- Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
- Personal Encyclopedias
- Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
- How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports
- Migrating to the EU
- GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information
- Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control
- France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app
- The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]
- Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)
- Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149
- FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms
- MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
- E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
- Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency
- Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
- Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
- I put my whole life into a single database
- Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
- An interactive map of Flock Cams
- CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
- RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello
- TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe
- I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services
- Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns
- /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem
- Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record
- Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance
- UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
- Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface
- Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data
- Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
- Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
- ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
- Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered
- Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used
- Our approach to advertising
- NASA announces unprecedented return of sick ISS astronaut and crew
- I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
- How I block all online ads
- Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
- Stellantis Is Spamming Owners' Screens with Pop-Up Ads for New Car Discounts
- Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
- Open Source Implementation of Apple's Private Compute Cloud
- Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
- Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features
- No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
- Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)
- Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak
- Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s
- Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department's Use of Flock Safety
- Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters
- School AI surveillance can lead to false alarms, arrests
- The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign
- UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US
- The IRS Is Building a System to Share Taxpayers' Data with ICE
- WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
- Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app
- Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
- Meta announces Oakley smart glasses
- xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app
- Mullvad Leta
- Google shared my phone number
- The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android
- RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement
- NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)
- Meta AI App built with Llama 4
- Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining
- Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting
- My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?
- How to Delete Your 23andMe Data
- Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
- Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
- Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
- How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta
- Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal
- Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased
- YouTube asks channel owner to verify phone, permanently overwrites personal info
- Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics
- Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
- Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
- How to turn off Apple Intelligence
- California law enforcement misused state databases more than 7k times in 2023
- The protester's guide to smartphone security
- Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)
- 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
- Let's talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
- General Motors Is Banned from Selling Driving Behavior Data for 5 Years
- Allstate used GasBuddy and other apps to track driving behavior: lawsuit
- Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers
- Homomorphic encryption in iOS 18
- Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo
- Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: Apps hijacked to spy on location
- Show HN: Kate's App
- Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me
- I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
- VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data
- Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS
- Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
- The paper passport's days are numbered
- Sherlock: Hunt down social media accounts by username across 400 social networks
- Query Apple's FindMy network with Python
- Google starts tracking all your devices in 8 weeks
- Dumb TVs deserve a comeback
- They see your photos
- NYC wants you to stop taking traffic cam selfies, but here's how to do it anyway
- Microsoft Recall still storing credit card, social security numbers
- Firefox removes "do not track" feature support
- How much do I need to change my face to avoid facial recognition?
- IMG_0001
- Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
- What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
- Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter
- The Crime Messenger
- RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
- Senators say TSA's facial recognition program is out of control
- Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data
- Europeans spend 575M hours clicking on cookie banners a year
- Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs
- Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe
- PRC Targeting of Commercial Telecommunications Infrastructure
- Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry
- NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown
- Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
- Private Cloud Compute Security Guide
- Manjaro Linux prepares to enable telemetry by default
- Iconic gun-makers gave sensitive customer information to political operatives
- Apple silently uploads your passwords and keeps them
- The sins of the 90s: Questioning a puzzling claim about mass surveillance
- Canvas Fingerprinting
- Security research on Private Cloud Compute
- NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch
- The global surveillance free-for-all in mobile ad data
- Meta Bans Accounts Tracking Private Jets for Zuckerberg, Musk
- Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
- We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger
- Reflections on Palantir
- Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
- A free and open internet shouldn't come at the expense of privacy
- How to delete your 23andMe data amid the company's turmoil
- uBlock Origin CNAME uncloaking now supports filtering by IP address
- Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
- A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions
- Screenpipe: 24/7 local AI screen and mic recording
- Bop Spotter
- FTC Report Confirms: Commercial Surveillance Is Out of Control
- Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?
- Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry
- Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
- Microsoft's new Outlook client moves your email to the cloud (2023)
- Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs
- Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature
- Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
- Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition
- FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies
- LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool
- Is Tor still safe to use?
- Please stop putting cookie pop-ups on your website (2022)
- Facebook scraped every Australian adult user's public posts to train AI
- Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
- Consent-O-Matic – automatically fills ubiquitous pop-ups with your preferences
- Ford patents in-car system that eavesdrops so it can play you ads
- Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips too much at work
- Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional
- Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all
- Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
- Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
- Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28
- Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users
- Interview with Signal President Meredith Whittaker
- The Arrest of Pavel Durov Is a Reminder That Telegram Is Not Encrypted
- Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
- How de-Googled is Lineage OS?
- Did you lose your AirPods?
- Make Firefox Private Again
- What If Data Is a Bad Idea?
- Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin
- Texas sues GM for unlawfully collecting and selling drivers' private data [pdf]
- Room inspections at Resorts World confuse, annoy DEF CON attendees
- Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers
- Apple memory holed its broken promise for an OCSP opt-out
- Google says it is obligated to disclose confidential info to U.S. government
- Eyechat
- Google uses AI to reduce stop-and-go traffic on your route
- FakeTraveler: Fake where your phone is located (Mock location for Android)
- Swift Homomorphic Encryption
- Future Ford's May Detect Speeding and Report You to the Cops
- Attribution is dying, clicks are dying
- How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?
- You can opt out of airport face scans
- X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled
- USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap
- Jailbreaking RabbitOS
- Reverse-Engineering an IP Camera (2019)
- Private Browsing 2.0
- We created a fake delivery company to get a job
- For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
- A word about private attribution in Firefox
- The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy
- Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
- Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
- No reasonable expectation of privacy in one's Google location data
- "Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you"
- Ad-tech setting 'Privacy-Preserving Attribution' is opt-out in Firefox 128
- Google Chrome has an API accesible only from *.google.com
- Linksys Velop routers send Wi-Fi passwords in plaintext to US servers
- Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%
- Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner
- Dear Roku, you ruined my TV
- Modern-day spying: sometimes old technology is more secure
- Why privacy is important, and having "nothing to hide" is irrelevant (2016)
- Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
- Show HN: Simple script to cripple personalized targeting from Facebook
- Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
- Snowden: "They've gone full mask-off: do not ever trust OpenAI or its products"
- Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
- Please maintain eye contact for the duration of the ad
- iTerm 3.5.1 removes automatic OpenAI integration, requires opt-in
- Australian Border Force searched phones of 10k travellers in past two years
- Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
- Sending emails to my three-year-old
- Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)
- Anti-Cheat Expert: all your pixels are belong to us
- Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash
- Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
- Uganda's surveillance state is built on national ID cards
- The right not to be subjected to AI profiling based on publicly available data
- Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards
- Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'content moderation'
- Microsoft Recall should make you consider Linux
- Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
- Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer
- Google Maps is killing Timeline for Web
- Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare
- Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC
- De-googling, so far
- Google releases smart watch for kids
- Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
- Surveilling the masses with wi-fi-based positioning systems
- macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions
- 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'
- iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin
- Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Senators Say
- Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare
- Why Your Wi-Fi Router Doubles as an Apple AirTag
- Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
- Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on its new PCs
- Police in Austin, San Francisco skirt facial recognition ban
- Michelle's List: A free, anonymous landlord review site
- Slack AI Training with Customer Data
- Firefox search update
- Bossware is a big legal risk
- Companies Say They're Using Microphone Audio to Target Ads [audio] (2023)
- Apple and Google deliver support for unwanted tracking alerts in iOS and Android
- Discord has been using ML to determine the gender and age of some of its users
- Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure
- I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software
- Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain
- How to escape Honda's privacy hell
- DNS traffic can leak outside the VPN tunnel on Android
- Microsoft bans U.S. police from using enterprise AI tool for facial recognition
- Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance
- Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police
- The IMEI Code: Your phone’s other number
- Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation
- GM collects driver behavior data then sells access to insurance companies
- Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again
- Dangers of “decentralized” ID systems
- I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen
- DuckDuckGo AI Chat
- Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account
- Personal VPN services are snake oil
- I Lost Faith in Kagi
- Why can't my mom email me?
- Find My Device on Android
- Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data
- Roku files patent to inject ads via HDMI
- Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
- Meta's Onavo VPN removed SSL encryption of competitor's analytics traffic
- 20 Years of Gmail
- Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy
- You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it
- Digital signs in Brookline are collecting data from your phone as you walk by
- Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works
- Launch HN: PointOne (YC W24) – Automated time tracking for lawyers
- Israel deploys expansive facial recognition program in Gaza
- Vultr is now claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content
- Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos
- Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
- Claim: Private GitHub repos included in AI dataset
- Mozilla will be retiring the Mozilla Location Service
- Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]
- CEO of data privacy company Onerep.com founded dozens of people-search firms
- Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
- Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras
- Automakers are sharing consumers' driving behavior with insurance companies
- Bypassing Safari 17's advanced audio fingerprinting protection
- "AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T
- Worldcoin hit with temporary ban in Spain over privacy concerns
- Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages
- ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood
- Docusign just admitted that they use customer data to train AI
- How The Pentagon learned to use targeted ads to find its targets
- Tell HN: Equifax free credit report dark patterns
- Facial recognition error message on vending machine sparks concern at university
- Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance
- iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol
- Walmart buying TV-brand Vizio for its ad-fueling customer data
- Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
- Microsoft is spying on users of its AI tools
- Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3B
- DJI – The ART of obfuscation
- Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy
- German credit agency earns millions through unlawful customer manipulation
- British intelligence able to read and flag private Snapchat messages
- Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show
- Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store
- Dutch Police intelligence services unlawfully spied on whole population groups
- Taylor Swift threatens legal action against student who tracks her jet
- Mozilla Monitor Plus: automatically remove your personal info from data brokers
- Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
- Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission
- Senator Wyden Letter Confirms NSA Is Buying US Persons' Data from Data Brokers
- There's So Much Data Even Spies Are Struggling to Find Secrets
- How we had our Nectar Points stolen, and this is how yours will be too
- Phones track everything but their role in car wrecks
- Amazon's Ring to stop letting police request doorbell video from users
- The NSA Furby Documents
- British man appears in court over bomb joke sent in private message
- Meta now lets EU users unlink their Facebook, Messenger and Instagram accounts
- CCP members threaten British public piano player [video]
- Google is tracking you even in incognito mode, new disclaimer is up
- Tesla Employees Using Vehicle Cameras to Spy on 'Private Scenes;' Owners Suing (2023)
- 400 license plate cameras coming to San Francisco
- Meta documents show 100k children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
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- LG washing machine sending 3.7GB of data a day
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- Alaska 737 cockpit voice recorder data erasure renews safety debate
- True Name – Mastercard (2022)
- Irish State announce plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU
- Zeiss's "Holocam" turns glass windows into cameras
- Britain's got some of Europe's toughest surveillance laws. Now it wants more
- Tracking and technology in cars is being weaponized by abusive partners
- Show HN: Inbox Zero – open-source email assistant
- Every major pharmacy chain giving government warrantless medical record access
- Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
- How to turn off Google's "privacy sandbox" ad tracking, and why you should
- Apple allows some iOS apps to track user locations via lists of nearby SSIDs
- Notesnook – open-source and zero knowledge private note taking app
- Location history data in Google Maps will soon be stored on user devices
- The AI Trust Crisis
- Dropbox: How to opt out of 3rd party AI partner access to your Dropbox
- Apple now requires a judge's consent to hand over push notification data
- TSA introducing self-service screening technology in Las Vegas
- New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties
- Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family
- Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
- This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)
- Show HN: I saw this mind-blowing experiment, so I made a simple version of it
- US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant
- Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
- FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections
- Why TSA's Implementation of Facial Recognition Is More Dangerous Than You Think
- Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space
- Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem
- Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening (2021)
- Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
- The NYPD is using drones 3 times more than it did last year
- Debunking the Myth of "Anonymous" Data
- Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
- Windows 11 Update 23H2 is stealing users' IMAP credentials
- YouTube's Adblock detection might break the law in the EU
- It's perfectly legal for cars to harvest your texts, call logs
- Signal Public Username Testing (Staging Environment)
- After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads
- Banning E2EE is stupid
- Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API
- Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published