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GTA V Cheaters Just Got Exposed!

This Week in Privacy #56

1d ago·6 min read·1191 words

Data Breach Roundup (May 29 - June 4, 2026)

This week saw data breaches impacting GTA Online cheaters, a health wearable, a UN food assistance program for Palestinians, and an update to the neverending 23andMe saga.

1d ago·3 min read·575 words

Meta’s AI Support Agent Used by Hackers to Take Over Instagram Accounts

An exploit described as “remarkably simple” allows anyone to add a new email address to any Instagram account using Meta’s AI chat bot, allowing full account takeover.

2d ago·3 min read·465 words

No Right to Remain Silent: Negative Rights in a Positive-Rights World

Rights exist so that you do not have to argue every time for the legitimacy of your everyday freedoms. Without an explicit right to your opacity, the rights you do already have can be called into ques…

5d ago·6 min read·1098 words

GrapheneOS is Taking Accessibility Seriously!

This Week in Privacy #55

May 29·6 min read·1189 words

Data Breach Roundup (May 22 - 28, 2026)

A complex travel booking breach, multiple government breaches around the world, some updates, and much more. This was a busy week for cybercriminals.

May 29·5 min read·888 words

Google Family Link Exploit Enables Account Lockout and Surveillance

Google Family Link, Google's child safety feature, can be leveraged by an attacker to lock you out of your Google account and surveil and control your activity

May 29·3 min read·452 words

Signal macOS Desktop App Doesn't Actually Delete Messages When it Should

Security researcher Harry Sintonen disclosed that the macOS desktop Signal app doesn't actually delete messages when they're deleted in the UI of the app.

May 29·3 min read·451 words

Town Councilmember Proposes Internet and Phone Ban After Flock Contract is Cancelled

After the town of Bandera, Texas voted 3-2 to end its contract with the dystopian surveillance company Flock, a pro-Flock councilmember proposed a ban of phones, cameras, the internet, and nearly all …

May 28·3 min read·443 words

Apple Publishes Source Code for Their Cryptography on GitHub

Apple has published the source code for their corecrypto libraries on GitHub, along with the tools and formal verification libraries they used to evaluate their cryptography, so independent cryptograp…

May 28·3 min read·425 words

The US DOJ Wants Identities and Addresses of Over 100,000 Users of a Car App

The US DOJ is demanding the data of all users, equating to over 100,000 people, of the EZ Lynk app over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, which the company denies.

May 27·3 min read·446 words

CISA Leaks Secret Credentials in a Public Github Repo

Brian Krebs found a public GitHub repository with sensitive internal CISA credentials "including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets."

May 26·3 min read·492 words

First Public Kernel Memory Exploit of on Apple's M5 Chip Found

Security researchers at Calif have found the first public memory corruption exploit on Apple's M5 chip, surviving Memory Integrity Enforcement protections.

May 26·3 min read·431 words

Discord Makes All Voice/Video Calls E2EE

After Discord announced their DAVE end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video calls in 2024, they’ve finally finished migrating all calls to use it by default.

May 25·3 min read·427 words

Google’s Smart Glasses Are A Privacy Disaster

This Week in Privacy #54

May 22·4 min read·718 words

Data Breach Roundup (May 15 - 21, 2026)

This week had some particularly noteworthy breaches including facial recognition systems, fingerprint scans, and Trump Mobile.

May 22·3 min read·503 words

Dirty Frag Sequel Continues the Streak of Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

Fragnesia, the latest local privilege escalation vulnerability in the same family as Dirty Frag, emerges as an “unintended side effect of one of the patches addressing the original Dirty Frag vulnerab…

May 17·2 min read·359 words

From Content Creator to Policymaker: Naomi Brockwell Interview

We spoke with Naomi Brockwell about the Surveillance Accountability Act she just helped draft, advocating for privacy on the internet, and the importance of defending our digital liberties.

May 16·1 min read·79 words

Data Breach Roundup (May 8 - 14, 2026)

This week featured some high-risk breaches including banks, cars, and water utilities.

May 16·3 min read·529 words

BitLocker Bypass Found, Researcher Warns of More Unreleased Vulnerabilities

An anonymous security researchers known as Nightmare-Eclipse has published two more Windows zero-day exploits, YellowKey and GreenPlasma, after already publishing 3 earlier this year.

May 15·3 min read·486 words

Android 17 Is Looking Great for Privacy & Security

This Week in Privacy #53

May 15·6 min read·1056 words

Help Defeat Censorship - How To Run A Signal Proxy

In this video we explain how you can setup a Signal Proxy to help people access Signal in countries where it is blocked.

May 14·1 min read·100 words

Android Introduces New Privacy and Security Protections, with a Focus on Agentic AI

Android has introduced some new protections against scammers and malware, some powered by agentic AI.

May 13·1 min read·28 words

Data Breach Roundup (May 1 - May 7, 2026)

The Canvas breach quickly became the biggest hack of the week, but a couple others slipped under the radar.

May 11·1 min read·28 words

Utah Targets VPNs for Age Verification

Governor Spencer Cox has signed a law stating that websites are accountable for determining if a user is physically located in Utah, even from behind a VPN.

May 11·1 min read·33 words

Utah Targets VPNs for Age Verification

Governor Spencer Cox has signed a law stating that websites are accountable for determining if a user is physically located in Utah, even from behind a VPN.

May 11·1 min read·33 words

Canvas System Used by Over 40% of US Schools Breached

Canvas, software used by thousands of schools in the U.S., has been hacked and the private data of staff and students stolen.

May 9·1 min read·32 words

Healthcare Marketplaces Shared Sensitive Data With Advertisers

A new investigation from Bloomberg has revealed how state-run health insurance marketplaces have - often accidentally - been sharing sensitive data with tech giants. The United States healthcare land…

May 9·1 min read·75 words

CalyxOS Is (Almost) Back But Is It Any Better?

This Week in Privacy #52

May 8·1 min read·14 words

Two More Major Linux Vulnerabilities Discovered in the Same Class as Copy Fail

Two new Linux local privilege escalation vulnerabilities were discovered in the same vulnerability class as Copy Fail, affecting most Linux distributions.

May 8·1 min read·34 words

Chrome for Android Now Supports Approximate Location

Google announced that “you can now choose to share your approximate location with websites, instead of sharing precise location” on Chrome for Android.

May 7·1 min read·30 words

Proton Mail Launches Post Quantum Encryption

Proton Mail now offers post-quantum encryption to protect against future threats from quantum computers.

May 7·1 min read·20 words

FTC to Ban Data Broker From Selling Location Data

Under the proposed settlement, Kochava would be required to implement a slew of oversights and allow consumers to have more control over their data.

May 7·1 min read·33 words

Disneyland California Rolls Out Facial Recognition

The company surprisingly emphasizes reduced fraud instead of visitor safety.

May 6·1 min read·16 words

Apple Confirms RCS E2EE Will Ship with iOS 26.5

9to5mac spotted in the release notes of iOS 26.5 RC confirmation that the long-awaited RCS end-to-end encryption feature will ship with iOS 26.5.

May 5·1 min read·32 words

Fedora Sealed Bootable Container Images, Possibly Opening the Door to a “Fully Verified Boot Chain”

Fedora 44 has released, and with it comes a new offering: sealed bootable container images, which “include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain.”

May 4·1 min read·43 words

OpenAI Introduces Advanced Account Security

OpenAI has introduced new security protections for ChatGPT accounts called Advanced Account Security, to protect users against account takeover.

May 2·1 min read·24 words

Every Linux Distribution Shipped Since 2017 Vulnerable to New Copy.Fail Exploit

A new exploit called copy.fail has emerged that can root just about any Linux distribution shipped since 2017 using just an unprivileged user account.

May 2·1 min read·35 words

Is Ubuntu Becoming the New Windows?

This Week in Privacy #51

May 1·1 min read·11 words

Data Breach Roundup (Apr 24 - 30 2026)

A security company, two medtech companies, a video streaming service, and an older attack we missed last week compromise this week's data breach headlines.

May 1·1 min read·32 words

Firefox Quietly Adds Brave’s Rust-Based Adblocker

Firefox has bundled adblock-rust, Brave’s memory-safe content blocker, into Firefox in version 149, although disabled by default.

Apr 24·1 min read·23 words

Would You Pay $60 For A Browser? (ft. Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons)

This Week in Privacy #50

Apr 24·1 min read·17 words

Data Breach Roundup (Apr 17 - 23, 2026)

A popular app-infrastructure provider, an important French government agency, a watchmaker, and a cosmetics giant make up this week's confirmed data breaches.

Apr 24·1 min read·30 words

Fingerprint.com Discovers Vulnerability That Can Link Your Tor Browsing Together

The fingerprinting company fingerprint.com discovered a vulnerability affecting “all Firefox-based browsers” that would allow a “stable process-lifetime identifier” during a browsing session, includin…

Apr 24·1 min read·42 words

Apple Releases Patch for the Signal Notification Issue That Allowed Recovery of Deleted Messages

Apple has released iOS 26.4.2, which fixes the notification bug that allowed the FBI to extract Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone.

Apr 23·1 min read·36 words

Madison Square Garden Facial Recognition Surveillance Used to Ban and Track People Around

According to WIRED, Madison Square Garden’s incredibly invasive facial recognition system has been used to ban critics of the stadium and even track a trans woman around who did nothing wrong.

Apr 22·1 min read·44 words

Maryland Set To Ban Surveillance Pricing

The bill would be the first of it's kind but is not without controversy.

Apr 22·1 min read·20 words

Does everyone have the "Parents Decide Act" wrong?

We break down the backstory of age verification laws, decipher what good could actually come out of H.R. 8250, and issue a warning about the potential dangers that this act could create in our future.

Apr 22·1 min read·43 words

Brave Launches Paid, Bloat-Free "Brave Origin"

Brave has announced a new minimalist version of their popular browser, dubbed "Brave Origin." The new browser will require a one-time license purchase of $60 (except on Linux where the product will b…

Apr 21·1 min read·88 words

Interview with Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and "Prophecy"

We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed t…

Apr 19·1 min read·56 words

Interview with Carissa Véliz, Author of "Privacy is Power" and "Prophecy"

Apr 19·1 min read·56 words

Tracking Opt-Outs Are Useless, Cal.com's Closed Source Chaos, Both Good & Bad Political News, and More!

This Week in Privacy #49

Apr 17·1 min read·21 words

Tracking Opt-Outs Are Useless, Cal.com's Closed Source Chaos, Both Good & Bad Political News, and More!

This Week in Privacy #49

Apr 17·1 min read·21 words

Tracking Opt-Outs Are Useless, Cal.com's Closed Source Chaos, Both Good & Bad Political News, and More!

This Week in Privacy #49

Apr 17·1 min read·21 words

HackerOne Pauses Internet Bug Bounty

Hacker One says that the rise of AI bug reports is overwhelming projects, meaning the bug bounty system needs to be rethought.

Apr 17·1 min read·27 words

Data Breach Roundup (Apr 10-16, 2026)

This week saw yet another breach from Booking.com, education giant McGraw-Hill, freelancing job board Fiverr, and many more.

Apr 17·1 min read·24 words

Data Breach Roundup (Apr 10-16, 2026)

This week saw yet another breach from Booking.com, education giant McGraw-Hill, freelancing job board Fiverr, and many more.

Apr 17·1 min read·24 words

India Drops Proposal to Require Biometric ID App After Strong Opposition

Reuters reports that the Indian government has decided it won’t go through with a proposal to require operating systems to preinstall the biometric ID app Aadhaar.

Apr 17·1 min read·37 words

Fiverr Exposes Private Information of its Users Publicly on Google Search Results

A security researcher on Hacker News claims that sensitive documents like tax forms shared between Fiverr users in private messages ended up publicly indexed by search engines like Google.

Apr 16·1 min read·41 words

Mastodon to Get E2EE for Private Messages Thanks to Sovereign Tech Fund

Mastodon announced they were awarded a €614k service agreement by the Sovereign Tech Fund to fund the development of new features and improvements, including end-to-end encrypted private messages.

Apr 15·1 min read·40 words

Google Chrome Adding Protection Against Cookie-Stealing Malware

Google announced on their security blog that Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC), a protection against session theft, are shipping for Windows users on Chrome 146.

Apr 14·1 min read·32 words

Librarians Raise Privacy Concerns Over Age Verification Bill

The Coalition of Alberta Public Libraries issued a letter raising privacy concerns over Bill 28, or the Municipal Affairs and Housing Statues Amendment Act, in Alberta, which requires age restrictions…

Apr 13·1 min read·41 words

Interview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn: "I like to win."

Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Apr 12·1 min read·41 words

Interview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn: "I like to win."

Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Apr 12·1 min read·41 words

Interview with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn: "I like to win."

Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Apr 12·1 min read·41 words

Data Breach Roundup (Apr 3 - 9, 2026)

It was a slow week, though we did still see a high-profile breach of a startup that provides training data for AI which likely continue to be talked about for a while.

Apr 12·1 min read·40 words

Microsoft Hates Security, "Surveillance Wages" Are a Thing Now, FBI Recovered Signal Messages From Notification History, and More!

This Week in Privacy #48

Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Microsoft Hates Security, "Surveillance Wages" Are a Thing Now, FBI Recovered Signal Messages From Notification History, and More!

This Week in Privacy #48

Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Microsoft Hates Security, "Surveillance Wages" Are a Thing Now, FBI Recovered Signal Messages From Notification History, and More!

This Week in Privacy #48

Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Microsoft Hates Security, "Surveillance Wages" Are a Thing Now, FBI Recovered Signal Messages From Notification History, and More!

This Week in Privacy #48

Apr 10·1 min read·23 words

Your Inbox Isn’t Private — Here’s How to Fix It

Your email address is the key to your digital life, learning how to secure it properly is instrumental in protecting your privacy & security.

Apr 9·1 min read·34 words

Claude Source Code Leak, Influencers' Kids Can Request Deletion, LinkedIn Scrapes Your Browser Extensions, and More!

This Week in Privacy #47

Apr 3·1 min read·21 words

macOS 26.4 Brings New Terminal Security Feature to Stop Malicious Commands

macOS 26.4 is now out, and with it comes a new feature in the Terminal app to help prevent malicious commands pasted into the terminal from running.

Apr 2·1 min read·38 words

Systemd Offers Optional Age Verification

Many in the privacy and FOSS communities see the move as capitulation to draconian and invasive laws, despite developer assurances.

Mar 30·1 min read·25 words

US Bans Foreign Routers, systemd Age Verification, Meta & Google Lose Social Media Addiction Lawsuit, and more!

This Week in Privacy #46

Mar 27·1 min read·22 words

French Aircraft Carrier Located in Real Time Via Fitness App

French newspaper Le Monde was able to locate a French aircraft carrier in real time using publicly available profile information of a French Navy officer on the fitness app Strava.

Mar 24·1 min read·40 words

Severe Meta Cybersecurity Incident Caused by AI Agent

The Information reports that a cybersecurity incident classified as the second-highest severity level Sev 1 occurred due to an AI agent similar to OpenClaw.

Mar 22·1 min read·32 words

Data Breach Roundup (Mar 13-19, 2026)

Once more from the "irony" department: an "identity protection" company falling for a phishing attack.

Mar 20·1 min read·21 words

New iPhone Exploit Impacts Hundreds of Millions of Devices, FBI Resumes Buying Location Data, Google's New App Installation Process, and More!

This Week In Privacy #45

Mar 20·1 min read·26 words

New iPhone Exploit Impacts Hundreds of Millions of Devices, FBI Resumes Buying Location Data, Google's New App Installation Process, and More!

This Week In Privacy #45

Mar 20·1 min read·26 words

Intel’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Chip Could Revolutionize Privacy

Intel’s hardware-accelerated Fully-Homomorphic Encryption chip, Heracles, could bring fully E2EE server-side processing into viability.

Mar 19·1 min read·22 words

Stop Using These "Private" Messengers

Is your messenger private messenger as private as their marketing claims? We dive into the world of encrypted messengers and explain what your best options are and which ones you should definitely avo…

Mar 19·1 min read·38 words

Bitwarden Announces Entry "Archiving"

Bitwarden touts the feature as a way to sort of "soft delete" items and keep your vault tidy.

Mar 19·1 min read·22 words

UK Corporate Registry Exposes Personal Information of Employees

The UK’s Companies House alerted the public of a security issue that allowed other users to access “dates of birth, residential addresses and company email addresses.”

Mar 19·1 min read·34 words

Instagram Ending E2EE Support

Instagram has notified its users that it will no longer support E2EE after May 8, 2026, according to the support page for the feature.

Mar 18·1 min read·28 words

Chat Control 1.0 Defeated, Google-free Pay on Android, DuckDuckGo's Independent Index,

This Week in Privacy #44

Mar 13·1 min read·16 words

Chat Control 1.0 Defeated, Google-free Pay on Android, DuckDuckGo's Independent Index,

This Week in Privacy #44

Mar 13·1 min read·16 words

AI Agents Beginning to Help Attackers Accelerate Stealing Your Data

While generation of malicious code, media, and phishing material are already making heavy use of AI, threat actors are “experimenting” with AI agents to automate decision making.

Mar 10·1 min read·37 words

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2026)

A lighter than normal week, but still we saw LexisNexis, a global paint maker, and more get hit, plus an update to the UH Cancer Center's breach.

Mar 9·1 min read·36 words

Coruna Malware Targeting iOS Spotted by Google Threat Intelligence

Google Threat Intelligence Group has identified a “powerful exploit kit” targeting iPhones running iOS 13.0 to 17.2.1 used by a surveillance company and crypto-stealing sites.

Mar 7·1 min read·34 words

GrapheneOS Hardware Partner Revealed, ProtonMail shares user payment data, Apple devices approved for NATO use, and More!

This Week In Privacy #43

Mar 6·1 min read·22 words

GrapheneOS Hardware Partner Revealed, ProtonMail shares user payment data, Apple devices approved for NATO use, and More!

This Week In Privacy #43

Mar 6·1 min read·22 words

New JVG Quantum Decryption Algorithm Could Pose Risk to Classical Encryption

A new quantum decryption algorithm called JVG could significantly reduce the amount of resources needed to decrypt classical RSA encryption that we’ve been relying on for decades.

Mar 6·1 min read·38 words

TikTok Won’t Add E2EE for User Safety

TikTok told the BBC that it will not be rolling out end-to-end encrypted DMs, citing user safety as a concern.

Mar 4·1 min read·27 words

Smartphone Security Course (Lesson 3: Advanced)

In our advanced lesson, we'll focus on making the changes that can effect the usability of your device but will increase your privacy & security substantially.

Mar 4·1 min read·32 words

How to Game Privately

Video games are an incredibly popular hobby, but they can be a privacy nightmare. How can we protect our privacy while gaming?

Mar 3·1 min read·26 words

How We're Empowering Privacy Activists and Advocacy Groups

We've put together a short video summarizing our newly launched section for pro-privacy advocacy and explaining why we created it.

Mar 3·1 min read·28 words

Meta Smart Glasses Sending Sensitive Recordings to Workers to Annotate

According to a report by SVD, Meta’s Ray-Ban AI Smart Glasses have been sending sensitive recordings of people, including “bank details, sex and naked people,” to outsourced companies to review and an…

Mar 3·1 min read·42 words

Privacy Guides launches a new Activism section

Privacy Guides launched a new Activism section on Tuesday, March 3, to support the digital rights community in its privacy advocacy and activism effort, both for individuals and organizations.

Mar 3·1 min read·36 words

“ClawJacked” Vulnerability Allows Malicious Websites to Take Control of OpenClaw

Oasis Security discovered a vulnerability in the popular OpenClaw agentic AI software that allows websites to silently bruteforce access to a locally running instance and take it over.

Mar 2·1 min read·38 words

Spyware Maker Sentenced to Prison

The founder, Tal Dilian, and three other executives of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers responsible for what was dubbed “Greek Watergate” have been sentenced to eight years in prison.

Mar 2·1 min read·35 words

Samsung Forced to Halt Data Collection in TVs in Texas Without “Express Consent”

Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton secured an agreement with Samsung that “will ensure Samsung no longer collects Automated Content Recognition (“ACR”) data without consumers being fully informed an…

Mar 2·1 min read·49 words

Threat Intelligence “Provenance” Could be the Solution to a Fractured Global Cybersecurity Landscape

Geopolitical tensions threaten cybersecurity research and sharing between countries, but research from Georgia Tech demonstrates a possible system of auditable provenance data to validate how threat i…

Feb 28·1 min read·48 words

Android 17 Beta Introduces the Contact Picker and the Local Network Permission

Android 17 Beta 2 released, bringing with it the rumored Contacts Picker for selecting individual contacts and the Local Network Access permission for preventing apps from seeing other devices on your…

Feb 28·1 min read·45 words

Burger King is Rolling Out AI in Employees’ Headsets to Track Their Friendliness

Burger King is testing out a new AI called Patty in 500 restaurants that will listen for keywords like “welcome,” “please” and “thank you” and in employees’ headsets and report to managers.

Feb 27·1 min read·45 words

Apple's Expanded Age Verification, Open Source Funding Issues, Amazon Wishlist Changes May Cause Doxing, and More!

This Week in Privacy #42

Feb 27·1 min read·21 words

Apple's Expanded Age Verification, Open Source Funding Issues, Amazon Wishlist Changes May Cause Doxing, and More!

This Week in Privacy #42

Feb 27·1 min read·21 words

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 20 – Feb 26, 2026)

PayPal, the French bank registry, the Mexican tax authority, and more big names were hit this week.

Feb 27·1 min read·26 words

Samsung Launches New “Privacy Display” to Protect Your Screen

Samsung recently made the new Galaxy S26 Ultra available for pre-order, which features a huge privacy improvement never seen before on a phone: a builtin, toggleable privacy screen that functions on a…

Feb 27·1 min read·43 words

Notepad++’s New Update System is “Robust and Effectively Unexploitable”

Notepad++ has released a blog post describing the security enhancements they’ve made since the state-sponsored hack earlier this month, highlighting their new “double lock” update mechanism.

Feb 27·1 min read·35 words

Firefox 148 Releases with Promised AI Killswitch Feature

Firefox version 148 has released, bringing with it the AI killswitch feature that was promised, allowing users to disable all AI features from a single switch.

Feb 27·1 min read·34 words

Google Expands Quick Share’s AirDrop Support to Pixel 9 Series

Google is expanding support for Quick Share and AirDrop compatibility between Pixel 10 phones and iPhones to include Pixel 9 phones as well.

Feb 24·1 min read·33 words

ChatGPT Adds Lockdown Mode for Protection Against Prompt Injection Attacks

ChatGPT has added Lockdown Mode, "an optional, advanced security setting designed for a small set of highly security-conscious users—such as executives or security teams at prominent organizations—who…

Feb 21·1 min read·43 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!

This Week in Privacy #41

Feb 20·1 min read·18 words

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 13 – Feb 19, 2026)

A sex toy maker, a fintech giant, a pharmacy, a luxury brand, and more.

Feb 20·1 min read·23 words

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 13 – Feb 19, 2026)

A sex toy maker, a fintech giant, a pharmacy, a luxury brand, and more.

Feb 20·1 min read·23 words

Data Breach Roundup (Feb 13 – Feb 19, 2026)

A sex toy maker, a fintech giant, a pharmacy, a luxury brand, and more.

Feb 20·1 min read·23 words

Smartphone Security Course (Lesson 2: Intermediate)

In our intermediate lesson we'll cover private alternatives to popular applications that you can utilize. We'll also talk about how to obtain your apps in a privacy respecting way from alternative sou…

Feb 20·1 min read·38 words

Smartphone Security Course (Lesson 2: Intermediate)

Feb 20·1 min read·38 words

Apple Introduces End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging in the iOS 26.4 Beta

The long-awaited cross-platform end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iOS users has finally begun its testing phase in the recently released beta for iOS 26.4.

Feb 19·1 min read·37 words