Privacy

#Meta Sues #Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on #Instagram

https://www.404media.co/meta-sues-nudify-app-that-keeps-advertising-on-instagram/

#privacy #nsfw

An Experimental New #Dating Site Matches Singles Based on Their Browser Histories

https://www.wired.com/story/an-experimental-new-dating-site-matches-singles-based-on-their-browser-histories/

#privacy

"Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta’s “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their product,” through therapy-themed bots that claim to have credentials and confidentiality “with inadequate controls and disclosures.”

The complaint and request for investigation is led by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a non-profit consumer rights organization. Co-signatories include the AI Now Institute, Tech Justice Law Project, the Center for Digital Democracy, the American Association of People with Disabilities, Common Sense, and 15 other consumer rights and privacy organizations.

"These companies have made a habit out of releasing products with inadequate safeguards that blindly maximizes engagement without care for the health or well-being of users for far too long,” Ben Winters, CFA Director of AI and Privacy said in a press release on Thursday. “Enforcement agencies at all levels must make it clear that companies facilitating and promoting illegal behavior need to be held accountable. These characters have already caused both physical and emotional damage that could have been avoided, and they still haven’t acted to address it.” "

https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/

#AI #GenerativeAI #AITherapy #Chatbots #Meta #CharacterAI #DigitalRights #FTC #Privacy #DataProtection #USA

How #Waymo Handles Footage From Events Like the #LA #Immigration #Protests

https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-data-privacy-protests-los-angeles/

#privacy #surveillance #AI

How to delete your #23andMe data

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/23andme-files-for-bankruptcy-how-to-delete-your-data/

#privacy #DNA

Zero-click #AI data leak flaw uncovered in #Microsoft365 #Copilot

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zero-click-ai-data-leak-flaw-uncovered-in-microsoft-365-copilot/

#Microsoft #MicrosoftCopilot #privacy #cybersecurity

#AOSP isn't dead, but #Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/

#privacy #FOSS #Calyx #Graphene #Lineage

#23andMe says 15% of customers asked to delete their genetic data since bankruptcy

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/11/23andme-says-15-of-customers-asked-to-delete-their-genetic-data-since-bankruptcy/

#privacy #DNA

House bill targets loopholes that let #CarInsurance companies charge more in Black neighborhoods

https://themarkup.org/premium-penalty/2025/06/11/house-bill-targets-loopholes-that-let-car-insurance-companies-charge-more-in-black-neighborhoods

#insurance #privacy #politics

#FreeBSD 14.3 Released With Network Driver Updates, #OpenZFS Updated

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.3-Released

#FOSS #privacy

Peep show: 40K #IoT cameras worldwide stream secrets to anyone with a browser

https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/10/40000_iot_cameras_exposed/

#privacy #cybersecurity

#AppleIntelligence Is Gambling on #Privacy as a Killer Feature

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-intelligence-is-gambling-on-privacy-as-a-killer-feature/

#AI #Apple

“#Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost #Meta 32 billion.

https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could

#privacy #Facebook

Stay Safe, but Stay Connected

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/10/stay-safe-but-stay-connected/

#privacy

#AI is a #DataBreach time bomb, reveals new report

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-is-a-data-breach-time-bomb-reveals-new-report/

#privacy #cybersecurity

Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to #DHS

https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/

#travel #privacy

#Russia’s #VK unveils #WeChat clone built on Putin’s orders: the app has mic and camera access, gathers user data, and shares it with the state

https://theins.ru/en/news/281989

#privacy #surveillance

"A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details.

CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.

The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.

“The big airlines—through a shady data broker that they own called ARC—are selling the government bulk access to Americans' sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used,” Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement."

https://www.wired.com/story/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/

#USA #BorderControl #PoliceState #CBP #Delta #AmericanAirlines #UnitedAirlines #Surveillance #Privacy #DataBrokers #ICE #DHS #DataProtection

Localhost tracking bypasses Android’s sandbox protections "to identify you while browsing on your mobile phone — even if you used a VPN, the browser’s incognito mode, and refused or deleted cookies in every session."

Zero Party Data: “Localhost tracking” explained. It could cost Meta 32 billion https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could #Meta #privacy #cybersecurity #infosec @[email protected]

Vanadium version 137.0.7151.89.0 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/137.0.7151.89.0

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23051-vanadium-version-13707151890-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #browser

GrapheneOS version 2025061000 released:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025060200

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23046-grapheneos-version-2025061000-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security

Criminalizing Masks at #Protests is Wrong

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/criminalizing-masks-protests-wrong

#privacy #politics #surveillance

#Privacy Victory! Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction in OPM/DOGE Lawsuit

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/privacy-victory-judge-grants-preliminary-injunction-opmdoge-lawsuit

#politics #DOGE #OPM

#DOGE wins at Supreme Court; conservative majority ends limits on data access

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/supreme-court-gives-doge-unfettered-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data/

#privacy #SCOTUS #politics

A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a #Google Account

https://www.wired.com/story/a-researcher-figured-out-how-to-reveal-any-phone-number-linked-to-a-google-account/

#privacy