#приватность
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Flock Admits It Got This Wrong: Stalking People Is Being Made Harder by Default
After reports of police officers using Flock's systems to stalk former partners, the company is changing its default settings and acknowledging a share of the responsibility.
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ShieldFont: the font that turns pages into gibberish for AI scrapers
Designers have unveiled a font that keeps text readable for humans but feeds bots a garbled version, to “poison” AI training data.
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By Default, Twitch Hands Streamers' Content to Amazon for AI Training
Twitch will use recordings of broadcasts to train Amazon's generative models — and creators are enrolled by default. The only way out is to opt out manually, and one of the platform's top executives was refreshingly honest about why.
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Signal rolls out automatic key verification against man-in-the-middle attacks
The messenger has launched a “key transparency” system that lets you confirm your encryption keys haven't changed without meeting in person and comparing safety numbers.
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He Bought the Domain noreply.net — and Companies Flooded Him with Other People's Secrets
A security researcher bought placeholder domains like noreply.net and found that organizations around the world had spent years sending confidential data there, assuming the addresses were a void.
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A Pattern Against Surveillance: How to Fool Recognition Cameras
Security researcher Bill Swearingen has built an algorithm that generates patterns which hide people, faces and cars from automated recognition systems. At Def Con he put the tool to the test in the real world for the first time.
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Illinois Now Requires Operating Systems to Report Children's Ages — No Break for Open Source
The state governor has signed a law requiring device makers, OSes and app stores to build in age verification. Unlike Colorado and California, the text carves out no exception for free software.
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Fastmail opens a European data region in Amsterdam
The email service Fastmail has given users a choice: keep the primary copy of their data in the US or in the European Union. The company has installed its own servers in Amsterdam and honestly warns that it cannot give an absolute “EU-only data” guarantee.
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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $567M to Treat Teen Mental Health
The judge declared Meta's social networks a “public nuisance” and demanded the creation of a fund to help children — on top of the $375M in penalties a jury had previously imposed.
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ICE Is Buying Credit-Card Application Data from Brokers
According to Bruce Schneier, the U.S. immigration service is obtaining, through intermediaries, information that people supplied when applying for credit cards.
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iCloud Private Relay Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses
Researchers have uncovered a series of flaws in Apple's browser engine that cause the company's flagship privacy tool to stop hiding the user's real IP. The outlet 404 Media confirmed the leak in its own testing.
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The US Senate Votes on Four “Child-Protection” Bills — EFF Says No
The Senate Commerce Committee is taking up KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act and the CHATBOT Act. The EFF warns that, under the guise of protecting children, these bills would ramp up surveillance and impose age verification on everyone.
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Public Claude Chats Turned Up in Google Search Results
Conversations with Claude containing private crypto-wallet keys and personal data ended up in Google's index. Anthropic's response: users have only themselves to blame.
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Why a Flock Employee Quit: “They Lied”
Jonathan Paz urged American cities to buy Flock surveillance cameras, but grew disillusioned with the company — after it emerged that federal immigration agencies had gained access to its system.
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California launches DROP: one request wipes your data from hundreds of brokers
Since August 1, registered data brokers have been required to honor requests from California residents submitted through DROP, a single platform. Over the past six months, roughly 350,000 people have signed up for the service.
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EU Age Verification Project to Require Hardware-Bound Attestation
Judging by its requirements, the European age-verification project for online users will rely on device-bound hardware attestation.
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A Surveillance Treaty Dressed Up as Fighting Cybercrime: Canada Signs the UN Convention
Ottawa quietly signed the UN Convention against Cybercrime at the height of summer — a treaty it had itself opposed and declined to sign just nine months earlier. Rights advocates warn that behind the banner of fighting crime lies a global mechanism for cross-border surveillance.
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Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden Switched Off for Taylor Swift's Wedding
The system that scans every visitor to the arena and flags opponents of biometric surveillance was turned off for the duration of the star's private celebration.
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Bluesky proposes a private-data protocol for ATProto
The Bluesky team has published a draft of Permissioned Data — an AT Protocol extension that adds data with an access boundary to “public broadcasting”: bookmarks, drafts, paid content and private groups.
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US Citizen Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone at the Border
American citizen Tunick gave border officers a code that wiped the contents of his GrapheneOS smartphone. Now he is being prosecuted.
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