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Senate advances the latest Kids Online Safety Act out of committee (engadget.com)

2026-08-05 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: bills, kids, kosa

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This laptop upgrades Privacy Display tech with a physical switch, and I want it on phones too (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: control, convenient, display

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DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out (techspot.com)

2026-08-05 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: duckduckgo, normal, normal ing

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Police departments are told to call license plate readers "county resources" instead of naming them (techspot.com)

2026-08-05 | by Daniel Sims | tags: license plate readers, flock cameras, police surveillance

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WhatsApp just solved some of the most annoying group chat problems (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: whatsapp, meta, group chats

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I am retiring from fulltime writing (& pseudonymity) to launch Guardian Angel (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: guardian angel, pseudonymity, writing

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Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra drops 25% to its best non-Prime-Day price (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: samsung galaxy s26, android authority, prime day

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No, Apple Photos face recognition is not a privacy threat – quite the opposite (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: apple photos, face recognition, meta

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Your Front Door Is on Google Maps in High Resolution. Here’s How to Remove It (cnet.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: google maps, street view, privacy

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Privacy risks from medical AI tools are not shared equally (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Zhang | tags: medical ai, privacy risks, machine learning

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Judge greenlights multi-billion-dollar class action over Apple Photos’ face recognition (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-03 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: apple photos, biometric privacy act, face recognition

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Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | by Sergio Flores | tags: california data brokers, drop platform, digital footprint

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DuckDuckGo’s Anti-AI Sunglasses Won’t Spy On Anyone (cnet.com)

2026-08-02 | by Gael Cooper | tags: duckduckgo, knockaround, ai glasses

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Is It Possible to Make Smart Glasses That Aren’t Creepy? (wired.com)

2026-08-02 | by Boone Ashworth | tags: meta, smart glasses, face recognition

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Run a free, private, offline AI on your computer to handle repetitive tasks (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: offline ai, privacy, web-based ai

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Show HN: I built a cross-browser extension that controls fingerprinting surfaces (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-31 | by Tomasz Janusz | tags: privacy thing, fingerprinting, google chrome

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A $2 sticker let me bypass the Meta Glasses' anti-creep feature (engadget.com)

2026-07-31 | by Karissa Bell | tags: meta, smart glasses, privacy accessories

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Show HN: Noisegate – a differential-privacy gateway for untrusted AI agents (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: noisegate, differential privacy, ai agents

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Most Smart Fitness Devices Lack Essential Data Protection, EFF Warns (cnet.com)

2026-07-30 | by Jeff Carlson | tags: apple, google, whoop

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Smart Glasses Are a Hit Even as Privacy Concerns Pile Up (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: ray-ban, meta ai, essillorluxxotica

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How I free up Windows disk space and shred sensitive data for free with open-source BleachBit (zdnet.com)

2026-07-30 | by Lance Whitney | tags: bleachbit, windows defender, open-source

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Cambridge Analytica’s Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm (futurism.com)

2026-07-30 | by Maggie Harrison Dupré | tags: cambridge analytica, facebook, steve bannon

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Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: echologue, ai voice journal, privacy-sensitive ai

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Keep Others Out of Your iPhone Apps by Locking and Hiding Them (cnet.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: iphone, app lock, privacy

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Private Claude Conversations Have Been Indexed by Search Engines (cnet.com)

2026-07-28 | by Blake Stimac | tags: claude ai, anthropic, google

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Tons of Peoples' Claude Chats and Creations Are Exposed On Google (slashdot.org)

2026-07-28 | tags: google, claude, privacy

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Hundreds of shared Claude chats, including resumes and health details, showed up in Google search (techspot.com)

2026-07-28 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: claude, anthropic, google search

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Claude chats exposed in Google searches – another endorsement of Apple’s privacy approach (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-28 | by Ben Lovejoy | tags: claude ai, google search, anthropic

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Want to Ditch Google Search? Try These 5 Other Search Engines Now (cnet.com)

2026-07-28 | by Zachary Mcauliffe | tags: google search, brave, privacy

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Some people's chats with Claude AI found to be publicly available online (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2026-07-28 | by Watch Our Pick Of Standout Clips Across The Bbc | tags: claude ai, anthropic, google search