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Hundreds of Eufy customers have donated hundreds of thousands of videos to train the company’s AI systems.
The U.K. Home Office is seeking access to Apple users’ encrypted iCloud backups for a second time, after an earlier attempt failed earlier this year.
Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.
A new call recording app is gaining traction for offering to pay users for voice data from calls, which is sold to AI companies.
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
X's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags.
There have been more border device searches than ever before, per new data, despite the constitutionality of whether these searches are legal.
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
Google has agreed to pay $30M to settle a lawsuit over children's data collection, though the company denies wrongdoing.
Tulsi Gabbard said that President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance also participated in the negotiations with the U.K. government over its once-secret demand to Apple.
Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker's centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer's account and unlock their cars, and more.
The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-issued IDs.
The internet-connected sex toy maker said it fixed the vulnerabilities that exposed users' private email addresses and accounts to takeovers, but said it was also planning to take legal action following the disclosure.
Proton's new AI assistant Lumo promises to keep user data private with zero-access encryption, no logging, and an incognito mode.
These are our favorite cybersecurity books, both by fiction authors, as well as journalists and researchers.
AI chatbots, assistants and agents are increasingly asking for gross levels of access to your personal data under the guise of needing your information to make them work.
San Francisco-based startup Confident Security wants to be “the Signal for AI." The company just came out of stealth with $4.2 million and a tool that wraps around AI models to guarantee data stays private.
Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger.
By clicking "Allow," you'll let Facebook generate new ideas from your camera roll, like collages, recaps, AI restylings, or photo themes.
Reddit says it's rolling out an update that will introduce a "Content and Activity" setting that allows users to decide which content from the subreddits they participate in will appear on their profiles. This includes both their posting and commenting history.