Google provided a major breakthrough in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie when it surfaced video of an apparent intruder entering her home. The 84-year-old mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie has been missing since February 1st. The Nest camera at her front door was removed, and because investigators said she didn't pay for a premium subscription, the footage was presumed lost.
Subjecting desperate and traumatised men, women and children to invasive searches including examinations of their clothing and even inside their mouths immediately after they have survived a terrifying Channel crossing is profoundly inhumane. Applying these powers indiscriminately to everyone arriving by small boat risks treating all refugees as a security threat, regardless of evidence, and shows a shocking disregard for the fundamental right to privacy.
Of the ten richest men in the world on Forbes' December 2025 list, only two didn't build their fortunes by running or founding a fully tech-driven company. They are the people who now shape how we think, how we have fun, how we vote, how the economy works, and ultimately whether the world moves forward or backward: Elon Musk (X), Larry Page (Alphabet), Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Sergey Brin (Alphabet), Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), and Michael Dell (Dell).
A new study shows more than two million Australians plan to reduce or quit social media rather than complete age-verification, with Gen Z leading the exodus from the platforms they grew up on over safety concerns.
Teenagers have always been formidable hackers. In fact, in recent years, some of the most high-profile and brazen digital attacks around the world have been carried out by teens. But even if you're not a hacker, you're probably still a prolific user of digital tools and social platforms. And whether you've never given much thought to your digital privacy and security or you've started to rein in your data, you can use this guide to implement basic precautions and keep operations security in mind.
In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out different digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification requirements with digital ID in mind. This blog is the third in a short series that explains digital ID and the pending use case of age verification. Here, we cover alternative frameworks on age controls, updates on parental controls, and the importance of digital privacy in an increasingly hostile climate politically.
The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next? People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence. The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it's a dangerous liability. What comes next? How do resources on transitioning survive the era of surveillance and AI slop? The anonymity granted by the internet is a lifeline to many trans people. What happens when that privacy disappears?
The Home Office had previously sought access to data on Apple's advanced data protection (ADP) service uploaded by any user around the world, triggering a clash with the White House. The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that the government has returned with a new access order, called a technical capability notice, seeking access to the encrypted cloud backups of British citizens.
It's an unfortunate use of advanced technologies, the same ones that are being used to detect and counter misinformation online. It's bad enough that we're having a hard time discerning true from false content, but what if the fake news is tailored specifically for you so that you're the most likely to believe it and consequently share it? Personalised disinformation is the next wave in darkly creative misapplication of technology, and here's how it can work.
Kanimba expresses that through her activism and concern for digital privacy, she learned how Bitcoin serves as a vital fundraising tool, especially under oppressive regimes.
"Human beings can be run through the digital copy machine and be misused for all sorts of purposes and I'm not willing to accept that," Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt stated after Denmark introduced an amendment to its copyright legislation.
The meeting underscored the dual nature of digital technologies in elections, enhancing access but potentially harming rights and accountability without proper regulation.
Imagine this: On an online marketplace, you recently sold your old laptop to a total stranger called 'GeekWizard99.' Decluttering and having more money in your pocket make you feel fantastic about the transaction. But hold on, did you really remember to erase those fanfiction drafts you wrote at three in the morning or those financial spreadsheets called 'Secret Millionaire Plan'? Plot twist: pressing 'delete' tells your computer, 'Hey, I don't need to SEE these files anymore, but definitely keep them around for someone more tech-savvy to find later!' It's similar to being awful at hiding in a game of digital hide-and-seek.
Christopher Allen emphasizes that as technology evolves, so do the challenges we face in privacy and coercion, prompting a need for stronger measures in digital identity governance.
I literally laughed out loud. We shouldn't be surprised. We've tried to plan for this. We changed a lot. For five years, there was a lot of urgency.
