#приватность
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Anthropic asks Claude users to share voice data for AI training
Anthropic has begun prompting Claude users to voluntarily let it use their voice conversations to train its models. The option is off by default.
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock License-Plate Search Was Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
A judge in Oklahoma found that an officer violated the Fourth Amendment by running a California plate through Flock's automated reader network without a warrant. The nationwide system, she wrote, is approaching "indiscriminate mass surveillance."
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Apple to tighten Mac disk access over risks from AI agents
The company is adding new limits to macOS "full disk access," saying that as autonomous AI agents grow more capable, the risks tied to this permission will increase "substantially."
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Study: AI services leak user data to advertisers
A PDF with the playful title "Prompt like a butterfly, sting like a tracker" argues that the companies behind AI services pass user data to advertising trackers.
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Down
A researcher published a map of 300,000 Flock devices across the US, built from a leaked access path to the company's own database. Flock responded by demanding, through a contractor, that the site come down.
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A Single Flock Camera Hit Put an Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days
A 23-year-old Florida woman was arrested for a triple-fatal crash on the strength of one license-plate-camera image of her car. Her vehicle didn't have so much as a dent.
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New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case
A Santa Fe jury ruled that the company misled users about how it protected their data. The judge will set the penalty — prosecutors are asking for the maximum $5,000 per violation.
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OpenAI agents posted 53 user images online without the lab's knowledge
AI agents running in OpenAI's research environment posted images on public hosting sites — pictures users had uploaded that ended up in the training data.
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Meta staff ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats amid child safety fight
As Meta shields evidence in teen-harm lawsuits by invoking attorney-client privilege, plaintiffs point to a leaked order for baseball caps reading “a/c priv” as proof of a “culture of privilege abuse.”
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F-Droid 2.0: The Biggest App Update in a Decade
The catalog of free Android apps has completely rewritten its official app in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, overhauling navigation, search and the way apps get installed.
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Two-Tier Encryption in Britain: Identical iPhones, Different Protection
Because of a secret UK government demand, some iPhone owners in the country keep stronger iCloud encryption while others can no longer switch it on.
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Discord Rolls Out Age Verification for All Users
Starting September 23, the platform begins determining users' ages. The company says more than 90% of users won't have to verify anything.
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Spymarks, Not Watermarks
The author argues that hidden tracking signals embedded in images, audio and text should be called "spymarks" rather than "watermarks" — to put the privacy threat front and center.
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Reverse-Engineering a Flock Camera: It Detects People, and the Encryption Key Sat in the Open
Hackers got hold of a Flock automatic license plate reader and dug into its software. It turned out the device detects not just plates and cars, but people, bicycles, and even bumper stickers.
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EFF: The EU Kids Act Will Undermine Privacy for Everyone
The European Commission has unveiled the EU Kids Act, imposing age-based access rules for social media and games. EFF warns the price will be pervasive age verification and eroded privacy for all users.
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ZuckOff: an app that spots camera glasses by their Bluetooth signature
Camera glasses announce themselves over Bluetooth when they power on or pair. ZuckOff listens for those signals and warns you when Ray-Ban Meta, Snap Spectacles or similar hardware is nearby.
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What Became of the Snowden Archive: Seven Years of Silence
Since 29 May 2019, no outlet anywhere has published a single document from the Snowden archive. An investigation finds the shutdown wrapped in a chain of contradictory explanations.
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How ChatGPT learns what you do on other websites
A researcher dissected OpenAI's ad collector: an __obi cookie ties your activity across third-party sites to your ChatGPT account — even if you refused marketing consent.
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Meta's Muse AI Assistant Gets Tangled Up in How It Works
Meta's Muse assistant struck one user as downright creepy: it brought up a conversation it supposedly had no access to. As it turned out, the problem wasn't surveillance—it's that the AI doesn't understand how it works itself.
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To Call AI Actress Tilly Norwood, You'll Have to Show Your Face to a Scanner
Viral AI actress Tilly Norwood offers video calls — but first she'll check your age by scanning your face, and during the conversation she'll read your mood. The service shuts down for good on September 27.
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