Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
… Privacy is paramount. For Slate, privacy is not a compliance footnote. …
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Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
… However, 15 privacy and consumer protection advocates—including Demand Progress, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the National Consumers League—co-signed a letter this week refuting all of X’s arguments. …
Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants
… In a statement, he celebrated the ruling for clarifying that “the Fourth Amendment fully protects people’s rights to privacy from government intrusion.” “We are encouraged to see the Court recognize that privacy interests persist regardless of the technology involved, and that law enforcement must … …
Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data
… Google is framing this not as a manifestation of its anticompetitive bent, but as genuine concern for user privacy. Heather Adkins, Google’s VP of security engineering, told Wired that the EU’s proposals could lead to serious security and privacy issues. …
Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
… But the company is still making the same privacy promises it did before, when all of its AI models were either running locally on your devices or on Apple-controlled server hardware. For years, Apple has touted user privacy as a key benefit of using its platforms. …
Secret Claude tracker shocks users after Anthropic’s anti-surveillance stance
… They can inspect code, summarize secrets by accident, run commands, install packages, edit files, and push commits on your local machine.” Although most users were likely not impacted by the tracking, Thereallo warned that the “correct reaction” is more scrutiny of Claude’s potential for user surve… …
Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors
… The Guardian’s reporting also confirmed that four federal sites built by NDS—ndstudio.gov, trumprx.gov, realfood.gov, and trumpaccounts.gov—run “commercial visitor-tracking software” that’s “configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install.” None of those sites “carry the public filings… …
Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
… Collery also warned Verizon that California’s invasion-of-privacy statute provides for damages of $5,000 per violation. …