Consumer Reports has a new study of people-search site removal services, concluding that they don’t really work:
As a whole, people-search removal services are largely ineffective. Private information about...
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This article about an app that lets people remotely view bars to see if they’re crowded or not is filled with commentary—on both sides—about privacy and openness.
Read moreLongtime NSA-watcher James Bamford has a long article on the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Read moreMicrosoft recently caught state-backed hackers using its generative AI tools to help with their attacks. In the security community, the immediate questions weren’t about how hackers were...
Read moreMicrosoft is trying to create a personal digital assistant:
At a Build conference event on Monday, Microsoft revealed a new AI-powered feature called “Recall” for Copilot+ PCs that...
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Meta has threatened to pull WhatsApp out of India if the courts try to force it to break its end-to-end encryption.
Read moreKashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.
Read moreLaw professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade,...
Read moreA new bioadhesive makes it easier to attach trackers to squid. Note: the article does not discuss squid privacy rights. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk...
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