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...
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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...
DOGE Employee Allegedly Stole 500 Million Americans' Social Security Data on a Thumb Drive
A former DOGE software engineer allegedly walked out of the Social Security Administration with two massive databases — potentially covering 500 milli...
Meta's AI Agent Leaked Sensitive User Data to Employees — Here's What We Know
A Meta AI agent gave bad engineering advice that exposed massive amounts of sensitive user and company data to unauthorized employees for two hours — ...
You Were Never the Player: How Pokémon Go Built a $3.5 Billion Surveillance Map
30 billion photos. 8 years of gameplay. Pokémon Go players unknowingly built the most detailed spatial map ever created — now powering delivery robots...