Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases
The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal emai…
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Audio Fingerprinting Discovered on Alibaba Websites While Debugging BLE Multipoint Disconnects
A recent discovery revealed that AliExpress employs silent audio streams for device fingerprinting, leveraging the Web Audio API. This technique inv…
Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They've protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. This is only the beginning. The spontaneous…
Meta agrees to heavy restrictions on teen users in major lawsuit settlement
Meta settled its latest kids online safety trial with a group of 29 state attorneys general, sparing it from the remainder of a trial that could hav…
Ring says its new encryption limits what it can give police
Ring has a new way to protect your videos. It's developed an encryption method called TAKE, short for Throw Away the Key Encryption, that the Amazon…
Trump’s dumb border wall
About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range,…
Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design th…
New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG
At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public ven…
The fight over Flock and other ALPRs
There are over 120,000 of Flock’s automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras installed all over the US. Flock’s cameras, and others like them, us…
Flock CEO: ‘We got this one wrong’
Surveillance tech company Flock is rolling out updates to address reports of cops across the country abusing its tools to stalk ex-romantic partners…
Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account
You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads,…
Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers
New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also co…
FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap
The U.S. federal consumer watchdog said Hims & Hers, which prescribes for sexual wellness and mental health conditions, used website trackers t…
Is it illegal to trick the US government into wiping your phone during a questionably legal search?
A Georgia man was charged with a felony for allegedly wiping his phone while being questioned by Customs and Border Protection. Samuel Tunick had so…
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL…
With smart glasses, Meta holds all the cards but fails to play them well
Across New York City, London, and Washington, DC, ads for Meta's smart glasses have been plastered over with satirical posters from activist groups.…
Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart
According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they'll launch by the end…
The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a "duress password" that wiped his phone when they trie…
UK government scraps plans for digital ID cards after millions of Brits opposed
The new U.K. government scrapped a digital ID program that millions of British people opposed, in place of a tax cut to tackle the cost of living.
LG’s monitors come with an unwanted addition for Windows: McAfee pop-up ads
A video from Gamers Nexus explains how, after connecting a new LG UltraGear monitor to a PC running Windows 11 for the first time, Windows Update is…
Three InfoQ Certification Cohorts Start This August: Meet the Facilitators
InfoQ has opened enrollment for three five-week online certification cohorts starting in August, each led by a senior practitioner applying QCon tal…
Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research
One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with an analytics company, under…
‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the c…
Let’s build a children’s public internet
An increasing number of people seem to agree the internet is terrible for children - allegedly addictive, destructive to self-esteem, possibly a por…
LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.
ICE agents are making house calls for online critics
A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. S…
Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time
Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype "super sensing" always-aware smart glasses that…
I spy
I've long argued that Hollywood has simultaneously set and ruined our expectations for smart glasses. But after binge-watching two seasons of Netfli…
InfoQ Opens AI Security & Privacy Engineering Cohort for Regulated Industries
InfoQ has opened enrollment for a five-week AI Security & Privacy Engineering cohort for senior engineers and architects in regulated industries, fo…
While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you
It's a big year for America. It's the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spect…