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Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Most AI providers try to enhance their products by training them with both public information and user data. However, the latter method puts a privacy-conscious company like Apple in a difficult position. How can it improve its Apple Intelligence technology without compromising the privacy of its users? It's a tough challenge, but the company believes it has found a solution. Synthetic data vs real data OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta train their products partly by ana
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust A hot potato: The idea of Apple analyzing data from users' devices to train its AI models isn't going to be welcomed by most people. Nevertheless, the company is taking this action as it looks to improve its Apple Intelligence services. However, Cupertino says its unique approach to this process will protect user privacy. Apple writes that its "differential privacy" approach works by first generati
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Apple said it will begin analyzing on-device user data as part of a broader push to strengthen its AI platform. In a blog post, the company outlined a new approach designed to expand its AI capabilities while safeguarding user privacy, especially as competitors like OpenAI and Google advance more quickly with fewer restrictions. Apple said it will train its AI models using synthetic data, known as information that mimics the format and characteristics of real-world messages without including an
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Apple said it will begin analyzing on-device user data as part of a broader push to strengthen its AI platform. In a blog post, the company outlined a new approach designed to expand its AI capabilities while safeguarding user privacy, especially as competitors like OpenAI and Google advance more quickly with fewer restrictions. Apple said it will train its AI models using synthetic data, known as information that mimics the format and characteristics of real-world messages without including an
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At Apple, we believe privacy is a fundamental human right. And we believe in giving our users a great experience while protecting their privacy. For years, we’ve used techniques like differential privacy as part of our opt-in device analytics program. This lets us gain insights into how our products are used, so we can improve them, while protecting user privacy by preventing Apple from seeing individual-level data from those users. This same need to understand usage while protecting privacy is
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Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Ars is owned by WIRED's parent company, Condé Nast. When Recall was introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for
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Anvi Ahuja noticed a "freaky" new text message from a number she didn't know right after getting back to her downtown Toronto apartment last month. The text was a transcript of the conversation she'd just had with her roommates during their eight-minute Lyft ride home from a friend's place. "I was like 'who is tapping me?'" Ahuja said. "The driver didn't inform us that we could be recorded." Within a few minutes she called the number the text came from and heard this looping, automated messag
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Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that R
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Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user does every three seconds. When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies if they managed to gain even brief administrative access to a Windows device. Privacy advocates warned that R
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Andrew Brookes/Getty Images Are you worried that giant corporations and government agencies are indiscriminately collecting your personal data and then using it inappropriately? You're not alone. Also: 9 ways to delete yourself from the internet In a report released today, security firm Malwarebytes published the results from a survey of 1500 readers of its newsletter. Here's a sampling of the top-level findings from their report: 89% of survey respondents are concerned about their personal
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Meta has been working on a new privacy feature for WhatsApp, which will enable “advanced privacy” for chats. With the feature, users will have the option to further protect sensitive messages. WhatsApp adding new privacy feature for individual and group chats As reported by WABetaInfo, the new privacy feature is currently hidden in the latest beta of WhatsApp for iOS available on TestFlight. Advanced Chat Privacy adds a “new layer of privacy and security to chats,” making it harder for other p
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Mensent Photography/Getty Images Are you worried that giant corporations and government agencies are indiscriminately collecting your personal data and then using it inappropriately? You're not alone. Also: 9 ways to delete yourself from the internet In a report released today, security firm Malwarebytes published the results from a survey of 1500 readers of its newsletter. Here's a sampling of the top-level findings from their report: 89% of survey respondents are concerned about their pers
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Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by researcher Jane Manchun Wong, raising fresh questions about how much of a rider’s behavior inside autonomous vehicles could be repurposed for AI training. The draft language also reveals Waymo may also share rider data to personalize ads. This isn’t new; Waymo already collects personal
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is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. WhatsApp is testing a new “advanced chat privacy” option that lets you control whether others you’re chatting with can easily export your chats or automatically save media you send them, reports WABetaInfo. The feature appeared in a recent app beta on iOS, and WABetaInfo spotted the toggle in an Android beta on Friday as well. The new advanced chat privac
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Apple-UK data privacy row should not be secret, court rules The Home Office has failed in its bid to keep all the details of its data privacy legal row with Apple out of the public domain. The UK government wants the right to be able access information secured by Apple's Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, citing powers given to it under the Investigatory Powers Act. At the moment Apple has no such capability - such data can only be accessed by the user - and says it does not want to creat
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Yuliya Taba/Getty Images Cisco has released a "2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study" that looks at the privacy challenges companies face with the rise of artificial intelligence. It offers practical insights for businesses that want to integrate AI while keeping privacy front and center. Also: The best free AI courses and certificates in 2025 The study gathered opinions from 2,600 privacy and security professionals across 12 countries. A key finding is that most companies (86%) support privacy
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In 1974, the United State Congress passed the Privacy Act in response to public concerns over the US government’s runaway efforts to harness Americans’ personal data. Now Democrats in the US Senate are calling to amend the half-century-old law, citing ongoing attempts by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to effectively commit the same offense—collusively collect untold quantities of personal data, drawing upon dozens if not hundreds of government system
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But Signal uses other techniques to keep your messages private and safe as well. For example, it goes to great lengths to make it hard for the Signal server itself to know who else you are talking to (a feature known as “sealed sender”), or for an attacker who records traffic between phones to later decrypt the traffic by seizing one of the phones (“perfect forward secrecy”). These are only a few of many security properties built into the protocol, which is well enough designed and vetted for o
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23andMe made a name for itself by selling at-home, mail-in DNA testing kits that gave ordinary people a look at their possible ancestry as well as genetic markers that could point to potential medical problems down the road. People bought into the idea and bought the kits. The company made a lot of money, and its value reached as high as $6 billion when it went public in 2021. But eventually demand faded and so did 23andMe's profits. Its value had dropped to about $50 million last week. The com
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Dgwildlife/Getty Images Once upon a time, I was hired by a client, but I wasn't sure if they could be trusted. I couldn't ignore this suspicion, but they offered to pay me rates I'd never been paid before. I accepted the gig, knowing I'd have to take extra precautions to keep my information safe. Instead of a VPN, I opted for a Linux distribution geared toward anonymity, privacy, and security. When dealing with anything related to that client, I'd fire up the specialized Linux distribution and
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Downloading a VPN app, creating an account, choosing a plan and connecting to your VPN shouldn't take longer than a minute or so. Nelson Aguilar/CNET With so many iPhone VPN apps available, it can be difficult to choose the right solution. Based on our extensive research and hands-on testing of VPNs over the years, these are the factors to look out for when choosing the best iPhone VPN: Privacy The most important factor to consider when it comes to any VPN is privacy. You should never use a V
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Forward-looking: The now-deprecated Do Not Track browser non-standard was designed to provide a quick and easy way for netizens to opt out of ad tracking on the web. However, the feature had no chance of succeeding because compliance was entirely voluntary. Today, privacy advocates are proposing a new alternative based on a two-party, machine-readable "contract." The IEEE P7012 draft introduces a new standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms, offering a novel way for users to express
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Things aren’t looking good for 23andMe. The consumer DNA testing company recently parted ways with all its board members but CEO Anne Wojcicki over her plans to take the company private. It’s also still dealing with the fallout of a major security breach last October, which saw hackers access the personal data of around 5.5 million customers. 23andMe’s business is built on taking saliva samples from its customers. The DNA from those samples is processed and analyzed in its labs to produce perso
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Genetic testing company 23andMe, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $6 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Sunday as it prepares for a sale of the business. CEO Anne Wojcicki, who cofounded the company in 2006, has also stepped down after months of failed attempts to take the firm private. As uncertainty about the company’s future reaches its peak, all eyes are on the trove of deeply personal—and potentially valuable—genetic data that 23andMe holds. Privacy advocates h
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☝️That’s a screenshot from the publicly open Plausible Analytics dashboard of the European Alternatives website, featuring independent, privacy-friendly digital tools. With almost 2M visitors, 2.3M total visits, and 8.5M pageviews, this library is no longer a niche project—it’s the go-to destination for users looking for independent, privacy-friendly tools. Over 1 million of the ~2 million all-time visitors came in 2025 alone—and we’re only in March. Let’s use the analytics dashboard to see wh
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