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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent.

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Encrypting Encrypted Traffic To Get Around VPN Bans

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Apple stops weirdly storing data that let cops spy on Signal chats

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Dead cars tell tales by storing data that's never wiped

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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit

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FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database

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Senators Ask Tulsi Gabbard To Tell Americans That VPN Use Might Subject Them To Domestic Surveillance

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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer

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Your Photos Are Probably Giving Away Your Location. Here’s How to Stop That

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Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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NSFW well sheeeit, you thought it was and it aint.

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Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

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ICE officers are taking DNA samples from protesters they've arrested

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

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How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world

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jewgle pajeet CEO gets asked "Does jewgle track you through your phone?" [0:43]

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This Must Be Banned You Are Being Filmed In The Bathroom & Bedroom Against Your Will By Meta Glasses [Jeremy Hambly] [10:34]

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You Bought Zuck’s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop.

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Mexico Mandates Biometric SIM Registration for All Phone Numbers

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Age verification is getting out of hand [Louis Rossmann] [07:25]

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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras

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Fury over Discord’s age checks explodes after shady Persona test in UK - Ars Technica

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The company discord uses is as scummy as you can imagine.

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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

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