Claude Is Now Watermarking Its Text — Invisibly, Worldwide, and Not Because America Asked
Anthropic has begun embedding imperceptible machine-readable watermarks in text generated by Claude, plus C2PA-signed provenance metadata on generated...
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Fortnight in Review: A Delete Button That Works, an Age Gate That Won't, and Seams Coming Apart
Two weeks that produced the best privacy mechanism America has ever shipped and the worst architecture Congress has advanced, in the same news cycle. ...
Privacy Claims Doubled in Six Months — and State Attorneys General Are Why
Pennsylvania sued TikTok over its age rating and youth safeguards. Utah joined a federal suit against Hims & Hers over data privacy. Insurers report t...
Pass-the-Passkey: 20+ Ways to Beat Passkeys Without Touching the Cryptography
SpecterOps researchers documented more than 20 attack techniques against passkeys across Windows 11, Microsoft Entra ID, browsers, and password manage...
Vegas Week: Hackers Spent August Explaining Why Age Verification Is a Breach Waiting to Happen
Black Hat USA ran August 1–6 and DEF CON 34 ran August 6–9, in the same week the Senate advanced four bills that require knowing every internet user's...
The Week the Watchers Got Breached — 100,000 UK Police, Swiss Federal Servers, and a Law Firm Wave
Hackers calling themselves ExfilSquad took names, organizations, and email addresses for more than 100,000 police officers and criminal justice profes...
The Youth AI Privacy Act Has One Genuinely Good Idea and One Fatal Design Flaw
S. 4199 would bar AI companies from training on minors' chat logs or disclosing them to other firms. That provision is correct and overdue. But by pro...
Four Bills, One Committee, One Direction — the Senate Just Advanced the Age-Gated Internet
On August 5 the Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act in a single sitting. Every one ...
Four Ad Libraries Ship Your Precise Location by Default — and the App Developer Usually Doesn't Know
An EFF investigation found that BidMachine, InMobi, Verve's HyBid, and Huawei's Petal Ads can collect or transmit device location by default once the ...
The EU AI Act's Big Day Arrived — and the Biometric Surveillance Rules Weren't On It
August 2, 2026 was supposed to be the day high-risk AI obligations became enforceable across the EU — police facial recognition, employment screening,...
California's Delete Button Went Live Today — 600 Data Brokers, 300,000 Requests, $200 a Day
As of August 1, every data broker registered in California must check the state's DROP platform at least once every 45 days and delete the personal in...
Courts Are Deciding Nobody Is Liable for the Trackers on Your Health Insurer's Website
A federal judge dismissed claims against Blue Shield of California over Google Analytics and the Meta Pixel running on its site, reasoning that only t...
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