BrowserGate: LinkedIn Is Allegedly Scanning Your Browser Extensions — and Sharing What It Finds
A privacy investigation by German group Fairlinked alleges LinkedIn secretly injects JavaScript to scan over 6,000 browser extensions on visitors' com...
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685 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
770%: The Staggering Rise of Government Requests for Your Social Media Data
New research from Proton reveals that US government requests for social media and tech company user data have surged 770% in the past decade — with 3....
God-Level Access: How DOGE Copied 300 Million Americans' Social Security Records to an Unauthorized Server
A whistleblower says a DOGE staffer copied every living American's Social Security record — names, SSNs, birth dates, addresses, citizenship status — ...
Incognito Mode Won't Save You from AI: Inside the Perplexity Privacy Lawsuit
A class-action lawsuit filed today alleges Perplexity was secretly routing your search queries to Meta and Google — even when you were browsing in pri...
Hong Kong Just Made It a Crime to Refuse to Unlock Your Phone
> U.S. State Department Security Alert — March 26, 2026...
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained...
The EU Just Put Snapchat on Trial: What the DSA Investigation Means for Your Kids
Half of all 10-year-olds in Denmark use Snapchat. The European Commission just opened a formal investigation. Here's what predators exploit, what the ...
Your Chatbot is the World's Most Patient Interrogator — And You're Telling It Everything
52% of Americans now use AI chatbots. 43% of workers have shared sensitive information with them. A Stanford researcher put it plainly: 'You just can'...
The Warrant Loophole: How the FBI Tracks You Without Breaking the Law
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath what privacy advocates feared: the FBI is buying your location data without a warrant. Here's the legal l...
The Algorithm Is on Trial — and It Just Lost
A jury just ruled that Meta and YouTube's recommendation algorithms are defective products that caused real harm to a real person. The punitive damage...
You Told BetterHelp Your Darkest Secrets. They Sold Them to Facebook.
2 million people chose BetterHelp for privacy. BetterHelp sold their mental health data to Facebook, Snapchat, and Criteo. The FTC fined them $7.8M. T...
Russia Phished Thousands of Signal Accounts — The App Was Fine, the Users Weren't
Russian intelligence successfully compromised thousands of Signal accounts through sophisticated phishing — not by breaking encryption, but by exploit...