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January 06, 2026

The nation’s strictest privacy law just took effect, to data brokers’ chagrin

Californians can now submit demands requiring 500 brokers to delete their data. ...

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January 02, 2026

Real estate agents under the microscope in Australian-first privacy ‘compliance sweep’

Businesses including pubs and car rental companies targeted to check if they use ‘power asymmetry’ to gather personal data and keep it too longGet our

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December 18, 2025

Browser extensions with 8 million users collect extended AI conversations

The extensions, available for Chromium browsers, harvest full AI conversations over months. ...

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December 17, 2025

Google will end dark web reports that alerted users to leaked data

Google says the reports lacked "helpful next steps." ...

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November 05, 2025

Flock haters cross political divides to remove error-prone cameras

Lawmakers' calls for Flock probe may help kill local contracts, expert says. ...

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October 18, 2025

Ring cameras are about to get increasingly chummy with law enforcement

Amazon's Ring partners with company whose tech has reportedly been used by ICE. ...

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October 14, 2025

Hackers can steal 2FA codes and private messages from Android phones

Malicious app required to make "Pixnapping" attack work requires no permissions. ...

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October 10, 2025

Discord says hackers stole government IDs of 70,000 users

As more sites require IDs for user age verification, expect more such breaches to come. ...

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October 03, 2025

Google confirms Android dev verification will have free and paid tiers, no public list of devs

Google promises verification will make Android safer, but at what cost? ...

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October 02, 2025

Meta won’t allow users to opt out of targeted ads based on AI chats

US users stuck with AI ad targeting as EU users win more control over their feeds. ...

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September 24, 2025

The DHS has been quietly harvesting DNA from Americans for years

The DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens has been entered into an FBI crime database. ...

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September 16, 2025

Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

Google Research shows that AI models can keep training data private. ...

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