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Amazon’s About You page is drawing attention after shoppers shared screenshots of personal characterizations the retailer associated with their accounts, including one describing a customer as having “flat buttocks.
Meta’s Muse AI assistant has become a fast-growing product while drawing questions about how it records information about users and people in their lives.
Australia’s privacy watchdog has opened an investigation into Shenzhen Qingcheng, the developer of the HeyCyan app used by smart glasses sold in the country, after the company did not respond to preliminary inquiries.
Norway’s government plans to propose a temporary restriction on AI glasses in selected locations, citing concerns that people could be photographed, filmed or recorded without their knowledge.
A Treasury watchdog found that 52 Internal Revenue Service employees made 86 suspicious accesses to the tax records of 30 taxpayers between 2022 and 2025, identifying weaknesses in controls meant to detect unauthorize...
Denmark’s government says unauthorized individuals accessed personal records associated with about 8.8 million people in the country’s central population registry by misusing a Danish company’s legitimate access.
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that a Tulsa County deputy violated a driver’s Fourth Amendment rights by searching her historical license-plate-reader data without a warrant, and ordered evidence obtained afterward...
Apple plans to add safeguards to macOS Full Disk Access, requiring users to take more explicit action before granting apps broad access to data on their Macs, the company said Friday.
New Mexico has asked a judge to impose $35 billion to $40 billion in penalties on Meta after a jury found the company made misleading statements about Facebook users’ data privacy and other platform practices.
St. Lucie County officials found 14 operating cameras that were not included in the county’s initial count of 52 as they moved to remove Flock surveillance devices, according to accounts of the county’s sweep.
Researchers at Northeastern University and Consumer Reports found that connected vehicles and their companion apps contacted third-party advertising, tracking and analytics services, with some apps sending personal id...
Amazon is expanding a pilot of camera-equipped smart glasses for delivery workers, with plans to deploy 5,000 additional devices in 2026 and have more than 20,000 in the field by the end of 2027.
Moca Foundation and Moca Network have launched the Moca Chain mainnet, a blockchain network intended to let people carry verified digital identity credentials across services while sharing only the information require...
Meta has disputed technology columnist Jason Aten’s allegation that its Muse AI agent accessed his Mac Messages data without permission, saying the integration requires users to enable separate macOS and in-app permis...
A six-month British Transport Police trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations scanned more than 500,000 faces and produced one false watchlist alert, with no arrests directly resulting from the tech...
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday he wants to bring together health information from government programs, medical records, laboratories and state health exchanges so researchers can...
Walmart CEO John Furner says the retailer will not use personal information, a customer’s identity or the time of day to set individual prices, including through its Sparky artificial-intelligence shopping assistant.
Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha says the fame he gained during the 2026 World Cup has sharply reduced his privacy, and that he would choose his life before the tournament if given the option.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust has apologized to the family of three-year-old Noah Woods and launched an urgent investigation into concerns that staff may have viewed his medical records inappropria...
A New Mexico jury found Facebook liable for violating the state’s Unfair Practices Act in connection with its privacy protections and handling of user data, leaving a judge to decide the financial penalty.
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