#приватность
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LG TVs caught recording audio with the screen off and snooping on the home network
Researchers have found that LG smart TVs scan the home network, map neighboring devices and record microphone audio even in standby mode. The harvested data flows to the company's advertising division.
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GrapheneOS Overhauls Its Stock Apps and Secure Clipboard
The developers of GrapheneOS, a hardened mobile OS, have announced a reworking of their suite of default apps and their secure clipboard mechanism.
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Nitter Returns: The Project Survives X Corp's Shutdown Demand
After legal threats from X Corp, Nitter's developers have announced that the project will continue. The news comes from an updated README on GitHub.
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Chrome once again makes an exception for Google in its site-data deletion settings
Developer Jeff Johnson has discovered that Chrome keeps google.com data even when the option to automatically delete all site data on closing windows is enabled. He found a similar bug six years ago.
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Wisconsin Police Searched a Veteran's Car in Flock More Than 100 Times After He Filmed Them at Work
A U.S. Navy veteran used his phone to record an officer at work in a parking lot — and over the following weeks his white BMW was run dozens of times through the Flock license-plate tracking system.
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A Voting System Vulnerability: AI Reconstructed the Order of the Ballots
Nearly four years after the vulnerability was disclosed, an expert used an AI agent to exploit it again — analyzing voter behavior in the Georgia primary without ever touching the voting equipment.
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Norway debates banning “pervert glasses” with built-in cameras
The country's authorities believe that camera-equipped wearables, such as the glasses made by Meta and Snap, pose privacy risks and need to be regulated.
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Court: The Pentagon Unlawfully Punished Anthropic for Refusing Mass Surveillance
A federal judge has found that the U.S. Department of Defense violated the First Amendment when it branded Anthropic a “supply chain risk” in retaliation for the company's refusal to let Claude be used to surveil Americans.
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FBI Probes Dark-Web Trade in Scans of 153 Million Driver's Licenses
A new service called Nexus is selling digital copies of more than 153 million driver's licenses belonging to U.S. and Canadian residents. The source appears to be a breach at a Louisiana-based identity-verification vendor.
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EFF: Meta's $17 Billion Deal With Prosecutors Means Surveillance and Age Checks for Everyone
Meta's settlement with 52 US state attorneys general locks in mandatory age verification for every Facebook and Instagram user and, in the view of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, does nothing good for teenagers.
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Florida and Texas Move Away from Flock Cameras Over Citizen Surveillance
Two states are winding down their cooperation with a provider of license-plate recognition systems amid reports of abuse. Flock's network numbers roughly 130,000 cameras nationwide.
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EFF Urges Newsom to Veto the Bill Banning Social Media for Teens
The California Legislature has passed AB 1709, effectively cutting off teens under 16 from access to social media. The EFF is calling on the governor to reject the measure as a threat to privacy and free speech.
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In its ProtectEU strategy, the European Commission again pushes for encryption “backdoors”
Under the banner of “lawful access” for law enforcement, the EU returns to the idea of weakening end-to-end encryption. Critics warn: a backdoor would open the doors to everyone, hostile states included.
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Brits Want Their Private Messages to Stay Private
The Register reports: UK residents would prefer their private messages to remain out of reach of prying eyes.
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How a Dollar From Texas Auto Insurance Paid for Thousands of Flock Surveillance Cameras
In 2023, Texas lawmakers unanimously raised the cost of auto insurance by a dollar — to fight catalytic converter theft. Three years later, it turned out the money went to expanding a network of license-plate recognition cameras.
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A Request to See the Data Ended in Its Deletion: How Companies Ignore the Privacy Law
A journalist filed more than 100 requests to access his own personal data under California's CCPA. Instead of copies, he often got confusion, brush-offs and deleted accounts — exactly what he had asked them not to do.
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California Passes AB-1856: Open Source Exempted from Age Verification
The amendment carves out Linux distributions and other free software from the age-verification law. The state Assembly backed the bill 69 votes to zero.
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Android 17 Rolls Out ECH: Browser Domains Hidden From Your ISP
Google is baking Encrypted Client Hello into the platform itself, while also tightening local network protection, turning on Certificate Transparency, and making it possible to disable 2G.
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PayPal Stopped Launching on GrapheneOS Because of a False Security Positive
The PayPal app began crashing on the security-focused GrapheneOS, reporting a “security policy violation: root.” Yet the system itself has no root access, and a workaround turned up almost immediately.
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AI startup Instinct raises $350M at a $2.5B valuation
A one-year-old startup led by a 23-year-old founder offers an AI assistant that will “organize your life” — and it has already stirred up not just buzz, but also privacy concerns.
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