#приватность
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The EU Is Ready to Open Its Biometric Databases to the US for Visa-Free Travel
The European Commission is wrapping up negotiations with the Trump administration on an “enhanced border security partnership.” According to EDRi, the draft agreement mirrors US demands almost entirely and puts Europeans' fundamental rights at risk.
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How a Typo in a License Plate Turned a Driver into a Car Thief: The Flock Camera Failure
Because two characters were left out, the Flock license-plate recognition system flagged an entire fleet of Jaguar Land Rover cars as stolen — and its makers insisted everything had worked exactly as intended.
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The Zoom Trick That Says, “Don't Record Me”
If every meeting, watercooler chat and even date increasingly turns into a text transcript, the question arises: who is actually reading all of this?
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Mozilla unveils PACT — an anonymous credentials system for the web
Mozilla has announced PACT, a project that offers a mechanism for anonymous credentials in web applications. The work is intended to give websites a way to verify users without revealing their identity.
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Period Tracker Stardust Shares User Data with Analytics Firm
Research by Mozilla has found that Stardust, a menstrual cycle tracking app, shares users' health data with a third-party analytics firm. Meanwhile, another app that was tested turned out to be “squeaky clean” from a privacy standpoint.
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Microsoft Confirms the Existence of a Non-Disableable GDID Device Identifier in Windows
Microsoft has confirmed that the Windows operating system contains a device identifier called GDID that cannot be turned off. Details about it appear in the materials of an FBI court case.
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Researcher Shows How Claude Can Be Tricked Into Revealing a User's Personal Data
The author of a blog post described a method he used to trick the AI assistant Claude into revealing confidential information stored in its memory. The publication sparked a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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Vancouver police website adds a “Quick Escape” button that wipes the trail from browser history
The Vancouver Police Department's official website has been fitted with a Quick Escape feature — an emergency exit button that deletes the record of the visit from the browser's history. The news caught the attention of Hacker News users.
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Samsung Health threatens to delete users' data if they opt out of AI training
The Samsung Health app warns that refusing to share data for AI training may result in the deletion of user information. The news sparked a wide-ranging discussion on Hacker News.
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Meta Patents an AI That Analyzes Emotions from Your Voice Around the Clock
Meta has filed a patent application for an artificial intelligence system that listens to a user's voice throughout the day and gauges their emotional state from the sound of their speech. Every such “reading” comes with a timestamp and context.
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Chromium 148: Math.tanh Becomes a New Tool for OS Fingerprinting
Starting with Chromium 148, the results of the browser's Math.tanh computation differ depending on the operating system, allowing websites to determine a user's OS even without explicit headers or APIs.
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Researcher breaks down what the Grok Build CLI tool sends to xAI
An analysis of the network traffic generated by the Grok Build command-line utility has been published online, showing what data it transmits to xAI's servers. The write-up sparked wide discussion on Hacker News.
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Meta is developing smart glasses that continuously record audio and photos
According to the Financial Times, Meta is working on a prototype of “super sensing” smart glasses capable of continuously recording sound and taking snapshots every few seconds. Users will be able to ask Meta AI for information about the captured material.
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The EU Will Require Every New Car to Be Fitted with a Driver-Monitoring Camera
The European Union is bringing into force a requirement for new cars to have a driver-monitoring system. The news sparked a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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Chat Control Clears First Reading in the European Parliament
The controversial EU initiative for the mass scanning of messages, known as Chat Control, has cleared the first stage of consideration in the European Parliament. The decision has provoked a wide response in the technology community.
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A Hacker's Arrest Reveals How Microsoft Tracks Users by Device ID
The arrest of a hacker has shown that Microsoft is able to track Windows users by means of a unique device identifier. The details came to light thanks to a report by PCMag.
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Google Has Expanded Its Use of User Data to Train AI — Here's How to Opt Out
Google has changed its privacy settings, allowing more user data to be used to train its AI models. Here's how to opt out.
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Anthropic Accused of Secretly Surveilling Claude Users
Anthropic, a company known for its rhetoric against mass surveillance, has been caught using a hidden tracker that monitored Claude users. The company says the “experiment” has already ended.
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Flock cameras have learned to identify cars without license plates
According to the company's 2024 presentation, the “Vehicle Fingerprint” system lets police track cars by their stickers, roof racks and other distinctive features, even when the plate isn't visible.
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EU lawmaker who investigated spyware abuses was hacked with Pegasus
A government client of NSO Group used the Pegasus spyware to hack the phone of a European politician who, at the time, sat on an EU committee investigating the spyware industry. TechCrunch reports.