#приватность
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EFF: VPN Apps Are Vanishing From Russia's App Store Again, and They Are Worth Defending
VPN developers report that Apple is once again pulling their apps from the Russian App Store. The Electronic Frontier Foundation calls this an unacceptable blow to a tool that protects privacy and free speech.
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GM to pay $220 million over sale of driving habits data
General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims from a coalition of 36 US state attorneys general. The states accused the carmaker of illegally selling driver and location data to data brokers.
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US Senators Press Meta Over Its 'Pervert Glasses'
Ron Wyden and Edward Markey have sent Meta a letter demanding answers on how its smart glasses threaten the privacy of wearers and bystanders. The move follows an investigation by 404 Media.
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Gnoppix Linux 26_11 Released with Disposable Email and a Tor-Capable Post-Quantum Messenger
Andreas Mueller has announced Gnoppix Linux 26_11, an updated build of the Debian Testing-based distribution with the Xfce desktop. The release improves networking tools and privacy services and adds a disposable email service.
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iOS 27.2 Lets You Wall Off Apps from Siri AI
Apple has added an "Excluded Apps" setting that blocks Siri AI from reading the contents of chosen apps. The EFF counts it as a win for its Encrypt It Already campaign, though it thinks Apple should go further.
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Quad9 Pulls Out of France Over Court-Ordered Site Blocking
The free DNS resolver Quad9 will stop serving users in France on November 24. The move follows a French court order requiring it to block sites accused of infringing a sports broadcaster's copyrights.
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Senators accuse Trump administration of hiding a secret court ruling on spying on Americans
Ron Wyden and Adam Schiff say the administration is unlawfully withholding a FISA court ruling on search filters for intercepted data until Congress renews the Section 702 surveillance program.
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Opera unveils WebAI, a standard for running AI models right in the browser
Opera has proposed WebAI, a new web standard that lets AI models run locally in the browser without relying on the cloud. The feature is already available as an early preview in Opera One.
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AdFection: Spyware Delivered to Journalists Through an Ad Network — Without a Single Click
Citizen Lab researchers describe a first-of-its-kind attack that fuses malvertising with zero-click infection: the surveillance ad-tech ecosystem turned into a precision delivery channel for spyware.
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Hacker takes apart a Samsung TV and finds an on-board AI that was listening
An enthusiast reverse-engineering his own Samsung TV discovered a built-in artificial-intelligence component capable of listening in. The OpenAI account tied to it was suspended.
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Canada's C-22 Bill Threatens to Weaken the Encryption Everyone Relies On
Bill C-22, already passed by the House of Commons, is now before the Senate. Rights groups warn it opens the door to backdoors and mass metadata retention.
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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has come back to haunt Meta, with a New Mexico judge ordering the company to pay $25 billion for more than 43 million violations of the state's unfair practices law.
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Home Assistant checks your passwords against HIBP — and not everyone was pleased
A security researcher discovered that Home Assistant was checking his passwords against a breach database without his consent and filed an angry issue. The developer first brushed it off, then apologized and explained how the mechanism works.
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Flock CEO defends surveillance tech: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Flock founder Garrett Langley defended mass surveillance technology, insisting its crime-fighting payoff outweighs the risk of abuse.
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Google silently links your phone number across all signed-in accounts
According to Android Authority, Google automatically ties a phone number to the various accounts a user is signed into on a device.
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Gemma vs. scammers: Google DeepMind and Singapore put fraud detection on the phone itself
Google DeepMind and Singapore's GovTech have unveiled a model that spots scam conversations directly on the device — with no chat data ever leaving it for the cloud.
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Fingerprints Are the New Cookies: How Your Browser Gives You Away
The author of royfish.dev explains why the age of third-party cookies has given way to device fingerprinting — and why Chrome makes you identifiable without ever asking for consent.
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Passkeys Are a Trap: The Hidden Dial Inside an Elegant Technology
The Non-Functional blog argues that passwords aren't being replaced by simply "more secure keys," but by a whole catalogue of different things sharing one name — and that the most dangerous of them is called attestation.
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An Illinois college tried to cancel its Flock contract — and the cameras stayed
An Illinois college terminated its deal with Flock Safety, but the company refused to take its cameras down. It escalated to staff taping over the lenses with trash bags while unknown workers kept coming to uncover them.
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Norway becomes the first state to rein in AI glasses
Norwegian authorities want time to draft permanent rules for smart glasses capable of recording bystanders.
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