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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research
Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house …
Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request
Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government …
Forget traffic lights, Google’s reCAPTCHA may ask for hand gestures
Google has introduced hand gesture verification for reCAPTCHA, a new method for verifying that a user is human. Google’s reCAPTCHA is part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense, …
Companies are discarding the logs they need to catch a breach
Many large enterprises discard most of the log data their systems generate, and they do it on purpose to keep costs down. A Dynatrace survey of 450 senior IT leaders at large …
X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework
Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot …
General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales
General Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, …
The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase
Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not. A new analysis from Erik Buchmann at …
Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone
Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most …
US state privacy fines reached $3.425 billion in 2025
State privacy regulators across the United States collected $3.425 billion in privacy-related fines from companies in 2025. Gartner said the upward trend is expected to …
Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission
Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by …
Apple privacy labels often don’t match what Chinese smart home apps do
Smart home devices in many homes collect audio, video, and location data. The apps that control those devices often focus on the account owner, even when the technology also …
Wearable tech adoption continues as privacy worries grow
Over 1 billion users wear devices for tracking steps, sleep, heart rate, and other personal metrics. These devices collect a continuous stream of sensitive data, often tied to …
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