800 Pubs Just Told Meta's Glasses to Switch the Camera Off
J D Wetherspoon has asked customers across more than 800 UK venues to disable recording on Meta smart glasses, describing the devices as enabling surr...
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8 articles on consent.
Washington's Attorney General Counted, and 83% of People Said They Have No Control
Washington released its first-ever Data Privacy Report on 14 August. In 2025 the state logged 209 breaches affecting more than 8 million residents — a...
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 ...
You Didn't Consent to Ring's Camera, But It Remembers Your Face Anyway
Amazon's Ring rolled out a feature called 'Familiar Faces' that uses AI to recognize and remember people who walk past its doorbell cameras. A new cla...
Amazon's Ring Is Scanning the Faces of People Who Never Bought a Ring. Now It's a Class Action.
A new class action over Ring's 'Familiar Faces' feature gets at the core problem with neighborhood facial recognition: the people being scanned never ...
The 'Your Phone Is Listening' Ad Tool Was a Scam — and the FTC Just Proved It
Cox Media Group marketed 'Active Listening' — an AI service it claimed could target ads based on conversations overheard by smart devices. The FTC fou...
Canada Found OpenAI Broke Privacy Law Training GPT-4. The Fix Doesn't Apply to the Models That Broke It.
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy commissioners found that OpenAI's collection of personal data to train GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was 'overbroad and ...
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...