#privacy

The telehealth company says hackers accessed a third-party ticketing system in February and stole customer support data, highlighting the growing risk around outsourced service platforms.

Security researchers told 404 Media that TeleGuard uploads users’ private keys to company servers and exposes enough information to make message decryption trivial, raising serious doubts about its end-to-end encryption.

Proton is expanding from VPN and secure email into a bundled productivity platform, pitching Proton Workspace as a privacy-first alternative to Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.

DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused chatbot posted a sharp traffic jump in February, suggesting that data handling has become a more visible competitive factor in consumer AI.

A technology policy researcher argues that the spread of AI-enabled camera systems across US cities is creating mass-surveillance capacity without meaningful national legal limits on how the data can be used.

Location data embedded in photos can quietly reveal where images were taken, turning ordinary picture sharing into a privacy risk if EXIF metadata is left intact.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath at a Senate hearing that the agency purchases commercially available location data from data brokers, exploiting a legal loophole that bypasses the warrant requirement established by the Supreme Court.

Meta has quietly rolled back end-to-end encryption on Instagram direct messages, reversing years of promises about securing the platform's private communications and raising serious concerns for the billions of users who relied on those assurances.

A free browser extension called OptMeowt automatically flags websites that share or sell user data and sends opt-out signals on your behalf, requiring no technical knowledge to use.

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are being paired with AI facial recognition to identify strangers in public without consent, triggering a privacy backlash reminiscent of the Google Glass era.

The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff has exposed a legal gray area: whether the U.S. military can use AI to analyze bulk commercial data on American citizens.

Internal DHS documents reveal Customs and Border Protection purchased location data from the online advertising ecosystem to surveil people's movements through ordinary apps.

Offshore Meta workers describe being forced to watch personal, intimate recordings captured by Ray-Ban smart glasses in a new privacy investigation.

Apple has begun rolling out age verification to UK users in the latest iOS 26.4 beta, prompting users to confirm they are over 18. The move comes as the UK's Online Safety Act pushes tech platforms to verify user ages for content access.

While most document scanning apps push cloud subscriptions and harvest user data, FairScan takes a radically different approach. The free, open-source Android app does one thing well: turning your phone camera into a clean document scanner with zero strings attached.

More than two dozen advocacy organizations have called on Governor Gavin Newsom to investigate and dismantle a network of approximately 40 hidden license plate readers in Southern California that funnel driver data into a federal predictive intelligence program monitoring millions of Americans' travel patterns.