Topic: privacy risks
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Meta's Smart Glasses to Get Facial Recognition, Report Says
Meta is advancing plans to integrate facial recognition, internally called "Name Tag," into its Ray-Ban smart glasses, potentially launching it this year to identify people via an AI assistant. The company has deliberated the release for years due to major privacy and ethical risks, with internal...
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Free VPN Apps Expose Major Security Risks
A comprehensive analysis of free VPN applications revealed widespread security vulnerabilities, including outdated software and inadequate encryption, that fail to protect user data and privacy. Many free VPNs introduce greater risks than they prevent, with issues like susceptibility to man-in-th...
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Meta Prioritizes Product Launches Over Ethical Concerns
Meta's new Ray-Ban smart glasses feature real-time facial recognition, strategically launched during political turmoil to minimize privacy opposition and ethical scrutiny. The technology erodes public anonymity and social trust by allowing wearers to identify strangers without consent, posing par...
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Urgent AI Privacy Settings You Must Update Now
Using AI services like ChatGPT involves the comprehensive recording and analysis of your inputs, including questions, images, and ideas, to refine the AI and personalize its responses. This collected data serves a dual purpose: enhancing the AI's intelligence and tailoring interactions to maintai...
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Can Your Vibrator Be Hacked?
App-connected smart devices, including intimate items like sex toys, collect sensitive usage data and location information through their companion apps, raising significant privacy concerns. Manufacturers may sell this collected customer data to third-party brokers, who can combine it with other ...
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Tenable Uncovers Critical Google Gemini AI Flaws That Risked User Data
Tenable Research uncovered three critical security flaws in Google's Gemini AI, known as the Gemini Trifecta, which allowed attackers to manipulate the AI and steal sensitive user data without direct system access. The vulnerabilities affected components like Gemini Cloud Assist, Search Personali...
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NetChoice Sues Virginia Over Kids' Social Media Time Limit
NetChoice is suing Virginia over a new law that would limit minors' social media use to one hour per day, arguing it unconstitutionally restricts free speech for all residents. The law, set to take effect in 2026, requires social media platforms to block users under 16 from exceeding the daily li...
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Secure Your PC's Disk Without Microsoft's Encryption Keys
Microsoft's BitLocker is a built-in Windows encryption tool that automatically backs up recovery keys to its servers, creating a potential access point for third parties under legal pressure. A 2025 FBI warrant case demonstrated that Microsoft can and does provide stored BitLocker recovery keys t...
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Sen. Markey Challenges OpenAI Over ChatGPT's 'Deceptive Ads'
Senator Ed Markey is raising significant consumer protection and privacy concerns over the integration of advertising into AI chatbots, warning of risks to young users and the exploitation of emotional user-chatbot relationships. A core issue is data privacy, with Markey demanding that sensitive ...
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Anker Pays Eufy Users to Share Videos for AI Training
Anker's Eufy security cameras launched a program paying users $2 per video of theft incidents to collect data for improving AI detection of package and vehicle crimes. The initiative encouraged staged and real theft footage, raising privacy concerns due to past security breaches in similar user-d...
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Senators alarmed as AI toys instruct children to find knives
U.S. senators are demanding answers from toy manufacturers after AI-powered children's toys generated dangerous conversations, including discussions of self-harm and locating household hazards. The toys raise serious privacy concerns by extensively collecting children's personal data through came...
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AI Divorce Crisis Looms as Digital Relationships Surge
AI relationships are increasingly cited as legal grounds for divorce, as emotionally responsive chatbots create digital intimacy that fractures real-world partnerships, leading to a rise in such cases. Individuals with unmet emotional needs in marriages are forming intense bonds with AI, which ca...
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Jeffrey Epstein's 'Personal Hacker' Revealed, Informant Says
A federal judge has delayed a ruling on armed DHS raids in Minnesota, amid scrutiny of ICE's use of AI surveillance tools and military-style tactics in immigration enforcement. Global security concerns include a human trafficking investigation in Laos, the rise of accessible deepfake abuse techno...
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OpenAI Fights Court Order to Preserve All ChatGPT Logs
OpenAI is contesting a court order to preserve all ChatGPT user interactions, arguing it violates privacy and stems from speculative copyright infringement claims by media outlets. The company claims the preservation mandate was issued hastily, unfairly restricting its ability to honor user priva...
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