#приватность
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EFF on the California Governor's AI Executive Order: Start with the Real Risks
The organization welcomes Gavin Newsom's executive order but offers a reminder: the chief threats of artificial intelligence are not a superintelligence uprising, but the algorithmic discrimination, surveillance and inflated prices already happening today.
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South Korea Raises Data Breach Fines to 10% of Revenue
The authorities of the Republic of Korea intend to tighten corporate liability for personal data breaches, raising the maximum fine to 10% of revenue.
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Wiped His Phone Before a Search
Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer to Samuel Tannick, who is facing charges for allegedly destroying data on a hardened Android smartphone before U.S. border agents could examine it.
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Apple Softens Tracking-Consent Screens for Apps in the EU
After a years-long antitrust investigation in Germany, Apple will let developers in the European Union show less alarming tracking-consent prompts.
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Mistral and Mozilla: A Private AI Assistant in Firefox
Firefox's Smart Window now runs on Mistral models. The companies promise privacy, support for local languages, and “zero data retention.”
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Hackers Cracked Flock's Camera Software and Showed How It Tracks Cars and People
Activists took down a traffic camera made by Flock, copied its contents and extracted the encryption key. Analysis showed the device recognizes not just license plates, but people too.
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Meta Preps a Camera-Free Smart Glasses Amid Surveillance Scandal
According to The Information, Meta may unveil camera-free glasses code-named Luna as soon as its Meta Connect conference — an attempt to shed the reputation of “creeper glasses.”
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Apple Reference Image: teaching the iPhone to prove a photo is real
The iPhone 18 Pro will offer an optional camera mode that produces a cryptographically certified photograph — proof that the shot really was captured by a sensor rather than generated by AI.
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Twenty-Five Years of Mass Surveillance: Time to Take Stock
In an essay for Lawfare, Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that the architecture of total surveillance that emerged after 9/11 long ago outgrew the fight against terrorism and has become a routine tool for the police, ICE and private companies.
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“Project Lily”: Real People Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations
Drawing on leaked internal documents, the outlet 404 Media has revealed that OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors to read the actual queries of ChatGPT users — and some of those queries turn out to be deeply personal confessions.
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Signal Wants Registration Without a Phone Number Based on Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The Signal community forum is discussing a long-standing request — registration without a tied phone number. Zero-knowledge proofs are set to play a key role in it.
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Session Context: the site that shows what your browser knows about you
The demonstration page sessioncontext.org vividly reveals how much data a website collects about a visitor without a single permission request — and why erasing those traces is far harder than it seems.
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Watches That Hear Everything: Apple Ushers In the Era of “Always-Listening” Devices
Apple is adding always-listening ambient features to the new Apple Watch. Privacy experts warn that the real problem isn’t protecting users — it’s the rights of the people who happen to be nearby.
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Flock Installer Called the Police on a Journalist Who Was Filming Him
Flock Safety, whose cameras automatically capture the license plates of millions of vehicles, has found itself in an awkward spot: twice over the summer its workers called the police on people filming them in public.
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LG Denies Allegations of Spying Through Its TVs
After high-profile reports from Gamers Nexus and independent researchers about data collection from Smart TVs, LG has said journalists created a “false impression” of how its devices work.
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GrapheneOS Rewrites Its Messaging App: A Jetpack Compose Interface and a Focus on Privacy
The team behind the secure mobile OS GrapheneOS has released the 13th version of its SMS/MMS client, completely overhauling the interface and hardening it against malicious content.
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LinkedIn Wins “BrowserGate” Case Over Scanning Browser Extensions
A federal court in California has dismissed two class-action lawsuits against LinkedIn: the plaintiffs failed to prove that their privacy had been violated at all.
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How to Steal the Hidden “Reasoning” of Proprietary Language Models
Researchers have shown that the encrypted reasoning blocks of LLMs are interchangeable within a single provider's ecosystem — and this opens up several avenues of attack at once.
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Grindr to Pay £26M to Settle UK Suit Over Sharing of HIV-Status Data
The largest LGBTQ dating app has settled a UK lawsuit over the sharing of sensitive user data — including HIV status — with third parties before 2020.
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Automobile Camouflage Against Flock Cameras
Bruce Schneier flagged an unusual way to hide a car from Flock cameras — striking, but hardly practical.
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