Recent Articles About Online Privacy

Shared Claude chats and Artifacts appeared in Google search results, exposing private data. The incident raises a broader question about whether Claude, and AI chatbots generally, are safe to share conversations on.

Customers at official Pokémon Card Stores in Japan will need to consent to facial recognition before receiving an entry ticket under a new anti-scalping policy.

A flaw in the Vatican's Click to Pray app exposed more than 700,000 users' names and emails. Here's what was exposed and how to protect yourself after a data breach.

An advanced OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and breached Hugging Face using real-world exploits, reigniting concerns over autonomous AI cyberattacks.

A federal appeals court ruled that border agents can manually search travelers' phones without individualized suspicion, drawing criticism from digital privacy advocates.

Digital fingerprinting lets websites identify and track you across the internet, even after you clear cookies. Here's how it works and how to shrink your fingerprint.

California regulators are investigating whether gig economy platforms properly disclose the personal data they collect and use to make decisions about workers.

The HermeticReader vulnerability could expose your WhatsApp Web data in the background after you visit a malicious website, but Adobe has patched the flaw and released a fix.

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New research suggests some financial institutions continued sharing sensitive information with advertising platforms even before users consented… and after they rejected tracking altogether.

Suno didn't disclose its November 2025 data breach for eight months, leaving users vulnerable to identity theft and phishing attacks.

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French lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a ban on social media accounts for children under 15. But enforcing it could require millions of users to prove their age online.

Microsoft's new Teams feature can automatically update your office location, but it could also open the door to workplace surveillance and employee tracking.

Platforms like SeekOut say they can search more than 1 billion candidate profiles built from your profiles across the web, without your consent.

Mozilla researchers found the app shared users' reproductive health information with a third-party analytics company despite marketing itself as a privacy-first option.

Powered by privacy-invasive tech, modern cars can collect everything from your location to biometrics. Here's what they track, who they share it with, and how to stay safe.

Driver-monitoring cameras are now mandatory in the EU. Here's what the U.S. is planning and how your driving data is already being collected.

Google's biggest Android app store shakeup in years could give users more choice, but it also brings new security considerations.

A federal complaint has revealed Microsoft's hidden GDID tracker, a persistent Windows identifier that survives updates and can tie your online activity back to your device.