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Catching Offline Spy Cameras: Detecting Hidden Lenses from 20 Meters via EM Radiation
CybersecurityPrivacyHardware SecurityAnti-Surveillance 
A Black Highlighter and a Copied PDF: How Google Accidentally Revealed $55.8M in Nebraska Tax Breaks
Data CenterPrivacyGoogle 
100,000 Warrantless Searches a Month: Judge Rules Flock License Plate Network Unconstitutional Mass Surveillance
PrivacySurveillanceLaw 
Smartphones on Wheels: How Automakers Quietly Sell Driver Geolocation to Ad Trackers
Connected VehiclesPrivacyData Security 
Flock Safety Claimed 120,000 Cameras: Its Database Logs 300,000 Surveillance Nodes
CybersecurityPrivacySurveillance 
Firefox's Smart Window: Finding Running Shoes at the Cost of Your Browsing History
AIPrivacyFirefoxMistral 
Apple Watch's 15-Second Rewind: Who Pays for Bystander Privacy?
ApplePrivacySecurityWearables 
Face Scans to Use Claude: Age Assurance Is Not Just for Minors
AI SafetyPrivacyAnthropicIdentity Verification 
ProtectEU: The EU's Renewed Push for an Encryption Master Key
EncryptionPrivacyTech Policy 
Motorola's GrapheneOS Flagship: When Digital Privacy Becomes a Luxury
SecuritySmartphoneGrapheneOSPrivacy 
Firefox Is Now the Last Major Browser Supporting uBlock Origin
BrowserPrivacyAd Blocking 
Facial Recognition Hits the London Tube: Millions Scanned as BTP Expands Station Trial
SecurityPrivacy 
Illinois Mandates OS-Level Age Verification: Technologists Push Back Against Impossible Requirements
PolicyLawPrivacyOpen Source Buying an Abandoned Domain Exposed 400,000 Corporate Secrets
SecurityEmailPrivacy 180,000 Meeting Recordings Exposed Online: Why Security Certifications Failed to Prevent It
SecurityPrivacyCertification AI Agent Approvals: Humans Miss 1 in 3 Malicious Commands
AISecurityAgentPrivacy 181,000 Unprotected Meetings Exposed: Massive Data Leak Hits AI Notetaker tl;dv
AISecurityPrivacyMeetings 
FedEx Sent an Official SMS, and 87% of People Voted It a Scam
CybersecurityPhishingFedExPrivacy 
EU Aims to Kill Cookie Banners: The 90% "Consent" Illusion and the Battle Over Browser Signals
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EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation: Privacy Shield or Start of Device Fingerprinting?
PrivacyRegulationEU 
One Underscore, 18 Months in Prison: How a Database Query Flaw Convicted an Innocent Man
securityprivacydatabasepolice 
Chrome's Breaking and Entering: How a Silent Global Hotkey Sparked User Outrage
ChromeGooglePrivacyGemini 
The 90% Consent Illusion: Who's Blocking Your Right to Ditch Cookie Banners
PrivacyGDPREUCookie 
Scanning 3 Billion License Plates a Month: Americans Are Taking Down Flock Safety's AI Cameras
PrivacySurveillanceCivil Rights 
India Orders GitHub Takedown of Bluetooth Chat App Bitchat: What Governments Fear
securityprivacyregulationcensorship 
Apple Won the CSAM Lawsuit, But the Judge Was Not Pleased: Section 230 and the Privacy Paradox
privacyregulationapplecsam 
Windows Ships a Tracker You Can't Turn Off — and the FBI Has Already Used It to Catch People
WindowsPrivacyGDIDTracking 
10 Million TVs Hijacked: Your Living Room May Be a Hacker's Unwitting Accomplice
IoTSecuritySmart HomePrivacy 
Microsoft Confirms It: Your PC Has a Tracking Number You Can't Switch Off
WindowsPrivacyGDIDSecurity 
Samsung Health's Ultimatum: Agree to AI Training or Your Health Data Gets Wiped
SamsungHealth DataPrivacyGDPR 
A Math Function Is Leaking Your Operating System to Websites
Browser FingerprintPrivacySecurityChromium 
Your Smart TV Might Be Helping Hackers Attack Websites
BotnetPrivacySmart TVAnti-Scraping 
331:304 — EU Parliament Resurrects Chat Control: Your Encrypted Messages May No Longer Be Private
PrivacyEncryptionEULaw 
Every New EU Car Now Has a Camera Pointed at Your Face — 352-Point HN Outrage
EUPrivacyAutomotiveSurveillance 
How Claude and GPT Both Leaked Private Chats: The Shared Infrastructure Flaw Nobody's Fixing
AISecurityPrivacyClaude 
How One Comment Can Steal Your Private YouTube Video Title: Google's AI Assistant Does the Rest
YouTubePrivacySecurityAI 
The Hunter Became the Hunted: A Lawmaker Investigating Pegasus Spyware Was Hacked — Twice
SpywarePegasusEuropean ParliamentNSO 
Spain Bans Palantir and the US Supreme Court Kills FTC Independence: Europe's Digital Sovereignty Reaches a Breaking Point
tech-policyprivacyeudigital-sovereignty 
172 Upvotes on a Surrender: The Internet Isn't Worth Fighting For Anymore
InternetAdvertisingPrivacyAttention Economy 
Claude Code Hid Steganographic Tracking in System Prompts — Here's How It Worked
AIClaudeSecurityPrivacy 
After 14 Years Fighting for the Internet, the Veterans Are Giving Up — and Targeted Ads Are Why
InternetPrivacyAdvertisingDigital Rights 
Anthropic Hid Invisible Watermarks in Every Claude Code Request — HN Exploded at 1,284 Points
AISecurityPrivacySteganography 
You Walked Past a Crime Scene — Police Could Demand Your Location Data. That Power Just Got Struck Down.
PrivacyLawSupreme CourtDigital Rights 
The KIDS Act Wants Your ID to Go Online. Its Sponsor Took $400K from Google's Parent Company
PrivacyPolicyAge VerificationKIDS Act 
He Scanned All 4.2 Billion IPv4 Addresses. Tens of Thousands of Webcams Had No Password at All.
PrivacyIoT SecurityWebcamsSecurity Vulnerability The 'Papers, Please' Era of the Internet
PrivacyAge VerificationInternet GovernanceAnonymity 
Privacy Pass: Mozilla's Risky Gambit in the Bot Era
PrivacyPrivacy PassMozillaCloudflare