#приватность
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Meta to Pay Up to $18 Billion in Suit Over Social Media's Harm to Teens
Meta has reached a settlement with a coalition of 52 state attorneys general. The company will impose daily limits, overnight lockouts and hide like counters for minors.
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X Demands Shutdown of Nitter — the Open-Source Project for Reading Posts Without an Account
The social network X has served notice on the Nitter project, accusing it of illegal data scraping and demanding that it take down every instance and the code repository.
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Paint and Photos quietly tag locally generated images with a server-issued GUID
A reverse engineer discovered that Microsoft Paint and Photos embed an invisible watermark into the pixels of AI images — a unique identifier that betrays a remote prompt-moderation server.
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Flock CEO Calls for “Compromise” Amid Growing Criticism of Surveillance
Flock Safety, the company behind cameras, drones and license-plate recognition systems, has come under fire from left- and right-wing politicians alike. Its CEO is proposing a balance between privacy and security.
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“Hook, hold, harvest, hide”: Meta on trial over children and privacy
A trial has opened in Oakland where California and 28 other states accuse Meta of building addictive products and violating children's privacy laws. Damages could reach $200 billion.
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TikTok to Pay $400M in Children's Privacy Case
Two years after the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit, TikTok and ByteDance have agreed to settle the COPPA claims by paying $400 million and strengthening protections for young users.
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US Senator Calls for a Review of How Intelligence Agencies Use Hacking Tools
Ron Wyden has urged the US Government Accountability Office to examine how the FBI, DEA, ICE and the Secret Service use spyware against Americans — citing an almost total lack of reporting.
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EFF: Zero-Knowledge Proofs Won't Save Age Verification
The Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why cryptographic zero-knowledge proofs don't solve the problems of online age verification, but merely deepen centralization and create new risks.
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Photo search service ClarityCheck exposed 9 million pictures of faces online
A tool for finding people by their photo left roughly 450 GB of images publicly accessible — including the faces of adults, teenagers and children — and also leaked personal data through unsecured APIs.
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OpenAI Answers Anthropic with a Monitoring Service That Stores No Data
OpenAI has unveiled Private Safety Processing—a system that tracks abuse across multiple sessions at once while retaining no customer data. It's the company's bid to outmaneuver Anthropic in the debate over the privacy of enterprise customers.
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GrapheneOS Coming to Flagship Motorola Smartphones in 2027
The developers of GrapheneOS, a security-focused mobile OS, have announced plans to expand the list of supported devices beyond the Google Pixel lineup.
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Firefox 154.0: local network protection for WebSocket and flexible data clearing
Version 154.0 of the Firefox browser has been released. Among the changes are the extension of local network access protection to WebSocket connections and more flexible data-clearing settings for each individual site.
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Surveillance in U.S. National Parks: NPS Installs Flock Cameras, Rangers Outraged
The U.S. National Park Service has installed automatic Flock license plate readers in Yosemite and other parks. Current and former rangers are calling it an invasion of visitors' privacy.
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Germany Forces Apple to Level Its Tracking Consent Prompts in ATT
The Bundeskartellamt has made Apple's promises to overhaul App Tracking Transparency binding: the company will no longer be able to impose stricter requirements on third-party apps than on its own.
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Cloudflare Silently Injects Its Analytics When You Move Your NS Servers
A Hacker News user discovered that after pointing his domain at Cloudflare's name servers, a web analytics script was added to his site without warning. Turning it off took a convoluted chain of settings.
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ChatGPT Learns to Watch You: The New Computer History Feature Remembers Clicks and Keystrokes
The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS has gained a Computer History feature that turns a user's actions into training data. OpenAI promises it doesn't take screenshots — it only records “events.”
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AI Will Make Software Too Secure — and the Intelligence Agencies Will “Go Blind”
Cryptographer Matthew Green warns: mass vulnerability hunting with the help of AI could strip law enforcement of its familiar methods of breaking in — and revive the pressure for built-in backdoors.
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Google Unveils HEIR: A Compiler for Private AI on Encrypted Data
Google has released HEIR, an open-source compiler that lets neural networks run computations directly on encrypted data — with no decryption on the server. The technology promises to resolve the age-old conflict between the convenience of cloud services and user privacy.
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US Courts Will Start Disclosing How Often the Government Uses Spyware
For the first time, the US judicial system will begin publishing statistics on how many times judges have authorized the interception of communications using hacking tools. The first data will appear in 2029.
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SparrowMap: Cameras That Watch Government Cars
The project proposes turning an old phone into a camera that recognizes government vehicles on the streets and plots them on a shared map, destroying data about everyone else right on the device.
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