Apple details Secure Exclaves, isolated runtimes for camera and microphone data
Apple published details of Secure Exclaves, a security architecture designed to protect camera and microphone data during background processing. Apple says data processed and …
Google smart glasses privacy features cover wearers and the people around them
Google has built its Gemini-powered intelligent eyewear to stop taking photos and video when someone covers or tampers with the outward-facing recording light. Shahram Izadi, …
Firefox free VPN drops its 50GB launch cap until January 31
Mozilla has removed the data limit on the free VPN built into Firefox. Firefox users in supported regions get unlimited browsing on desktop and Android once they sign in with …
Privacy-preserving AI can protect your heart data, the bill is the problem
A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. …
Product showcase: GuardOS checks QR links, scans for data breaches, and filters Safari content
GuardOS is an iPhone application that combines device security checks, VPN access, Safari content filtering, QR link scanning, and storage cleanup. It is available through the …
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise lets companies block shadow AI in the browser
Mozilla’s Firefox Enterprise is a paid platform that lets organizations control how sensitive data is shared, check device security, and manage employee access to web …
Who watches the AI watching your street?
Yusaku Fujii, a professor at Gunma University in Japan, has designed audits and penalties to stop operators from misusing AI that analyzes street camera footage. His system …
Apple tightens macOS disk access as AI agents become more powerful
Apple plans to introduce additional controls for Full Disk Access in macOS, citing growing privacy risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Users will need to …
Android 17 makes it harder for spyware to cover its tracks
When a journalist suspects their phone has been hacked, the first question is whether any trace of the attack is left. Google has added six features to Advanced Protection in …
Some car apps are slipping owners’ data to big tech companies
The app that comes with your car may be sharing what it knows about you with some of the biggest tech companies. Northeastern University researchers tested 21 vehicles and 30 …
Product showcase: Proton Drive end-to-end encrypted cloud storage
Proton Drive is an end-to-end encrypted cloud storage service for storing, synchronizing, backing up, and sharing files. It also includes Proton Docs and Proton Sheets, …
Other users can watch your browsing and time your keystrokes through OS file notifications
Researchers at Graz University of Technology have used the file-notification systems in Windows, Linux, and macOS to spy on activity in other accounts. On Windows, a standard …
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