It is no different than finding a dog in your backyard, looking at the collar and deciding whether or not to call the number. The feature at the center of the controversy is fairly mundane on the surface - a dog goes missing; Ring alerts nearby camera owners to ask whether the animal shows up in their footage; users can respond or ignore the request entirely and stay invisible to everyone involved.
This new technology is making it cheaper and easier to pretend to be someone that you're not. That is true on video calls, that is true on email, and basically every form of digital communication. With a 15-second sample of your voice, AI can clone your voice.
This nationwide class action seeks to hold Meta responsible for its affirmatively false advertising and failure to disclose the true nature of surveillance and its connection to the company's AI data collection pipeline. The filing names two individuals who live in California and New Jersey who purchased Meta's smart glasses and relied on Meta's marketing claims about the glasses' privacy protecting features.
The movements of a hard drive's components, keystrokes on a keyboard, even the electric charge in a semiconductor's wires produce radio waves, sound, and vibrations that transmit in all directions and can-when picked up by someone with sufficiently sensitive equipment and enough spycraft to decipher those signals-reveal your private data and activities.
Meta was recently granted a patent in Dec, 2025 that would essentially allow the social media platform to post on a dormant user's behalf-whether they took a break from social media or long after they've passed away. The patent, first filed in 2023, describes a large language model that "simulates" a user's social media activity, using a user's comments, likes, or content to respond to other users and also references technology that would simulate video or audio calls with users.
Motorola is introducing a new era of smartphone security through a long‑term partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, the leading nonprofit in advanced mobile security and creators of a hardened, operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. Together, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.
Identity spoofing against older adults alone grew by 8x between 2020 and 2024, driven in part by convincing AI impersonations of friends and loved ones. It's a problem costing people in the U.S. nearly half a billion dollars a year with no end in sight.
QR codes are two-dimensional images with glyphs of various sizes that store not just numbers, but text. When scanned, your phone extracts the encoded information and can act on it. For example, QR codes often embed URLs, allowing you to scan, say, a parking meter to launch a webpage where you can pay online.
When you tap "I agree" on a typical European or American news site, a real-time bidding auction begins. Your device sends a bid request containing what the industry calls "signals": your approximate location, device type, browsing history (if third-party cookies are still active), and increasingly, probabilistic identity graphs that link your behavior across apps and websites even without cookies.
When Windows 10 was released in 2015, it was immediately controversial, with critics zeroing in on one feature in particular: telemetry. I spent many months in those early days reading one article after another on the subject that read, in retrospect, like entries from the diary of a mad conspiracy theorist.
According to internal documents obtained by the outlet, Meta AI is banned from sharing with minors any "content that provides advice or opinion about sexual health," such as "anatomy and physiology of reproductive organs, puberty education, menstrual health, fertilization and reproduction, STI and HIV prevention, contraceptive methods, consent education and abstinence."
What I walked through wasn't just an immigration gate. It was a node in a rapidly expanding global infrastructure of digital identity, one being constructed at extraordinary speed, across dozens of countries, by a mix of governments, multilateral organizations, and private technology vendors. The people building it believe they are solving real problems: fraud, statelessness, inefficient public services, financial exclusion.
All smart homes are at risk of being hacked, but it's not a likely event. The type of bad actors that target smart homes and devices, such as security cameras, are opportunistic. They search randomly for easy targets -- they don't tend to choose a particular home to attack and then try to circumvent that specific system.
Discord presents its move as inevitable. It's not. I know that Discord isn't trying to harm anyone. The company genuinely believes it's protecting users. But good intentions don't prevent the drift. They accelerate it. There's also the risk that the collected data becomes exposed.
A Greek court has sentenced four people, including two Israelis, to prison over a major wiretapping scandal involving the illegal use of Predator software to target dozens of politicians, journalists, business leaders and military officials. Dubbed the Greek Watergate by local media, the scandal engulfed Greece in 2022 following allegations by opposition party leader Nikos Androulakis and journalist Thanasis Koukakis that they had been under state surveillance via phone malware.
The scheme involves a text message that appears to come from 'Gmail from Google,' warning recipients that their account has been compromised. The message includes a link labeled 'Recover Account.' When users click it, they are prompted to enter their Gmail password, which is then captured by scammers. In some cases, attackers can combine stolen information with personal details, like your phone number.
A 51-year-old convicted sex offender, who described Snapchat as a "safe haven for paedophiles," sent a lewd message to a schoolgirl on the mobile messaging app within three hours of being released from prison, a court has heard.
In-flight Wi-Fi is roughly on par with hotel or airport Wi-Fi. It's not automatically unsafe, but it's not something you should blindly trust either. You're on a shared network with hundreds of other people, and you don't know how well it's segmented or monitored.
