Security

Privacy's Defenders: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries

Privacy's Defenders: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and V...

Mass surveillance technologies—from license‑plate readers to facial‑recognition algorithms—are no longer futuristic threats; they shape everyday decisions, from the ads you see to the neighborhoods you can safely traverse. Cindy Cohn...

Privacy's Defenders: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and V...

Mass surveillance technologies—from license‑plate readers to facial‑recognition algorithms—are no longer futuristic threats; they shape everyday decisions, from the ads you see to the neighborhoods you can safely traverse. Cindy Cohn...

Screenshot of a police dashboard showing searchable license‑plate entries from the Flock system

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass ...

When a federal judge labeled the police‑run system Flock “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” it signaled a clash between modern data‑driven policing and the constitutional shield of the Fourth Amendment. The ruling...

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass ...

When a federal judge labeled the police‑run system Flock “indiscriminate mass surveillance,” it signaled a clash between modern data‑driven policing and the constitutional shield of the Fourth Amendment. The ruling...

Screenshot of Meta’s Muse chat interface displaying a personalized response about a friend’s recent activity

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Frie...

Meta’s AI agent Muse has been installed by millions of users, yet the convenience it promises arrives with a hidden privacy price tag that most adopters overlook. How Muse Harvests...

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Frie...

Meta’s AI agent Muse has been installed by millions of users, yet the convenience it promises arrives with a hidden privacy price tag that most adopters overlook. How Muse Harvests...

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Pa...

ICE activity in Maine drew a wave of citizen observers, yet DHS agents responded by tracking those observers, intimidating them, and archiving their photographs in a Palantir‑built database, according to...

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Pa...

ICE activity in Maine drew a wave of citizen observers, yet DHS agents responded by tracking those observers, intimidating them, and archiving their photographs in a Palantir‑built database, according to...

Screenshot of macOS System Settings showing the Full Disk Access permission list

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Acc...

Apple is tightening the macOS “Full Disk Access” permission after concluding that increasingly capable AI agents can exploit the broad file‑system privileges to harvest sensitive data such as messages, mail,...

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Acc...

Apple is tightening the macOS “Full Disk Access” permission after concluding that increasingly capable AI agents can exploit the broad file‑system privileges to harvest sensitive data such as messages, mail,...

Screenshot of Epic MyChart login screen with a security warning overlay indicating a patch update.

Medical records giant Epic pauses product devel...

Epic, the dominant health‑tech vendor behind the ubiquitous MyChart patient portal, announced a temporary halt to new product development. The pause will last “the next few weeks” while engineers address...

Medical records giant Epic pauses product devel...

Epic, the dominant health‑tech vendor behind the ubiquitous MyChart patient portal, announced a temporary halt to new product development. The pause will last “the next few weeks” while engineers address...