Meta's Muse AI agent is building a dossier on you(time.com)
9 points by penskymaterial | 1 comments
TIME article reporting that Meta's Muse AI agent compiles detailed personal profiles on its users, raising privacy concerns.
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Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening(automatictransmission.khoury.northeastern.edu)
185 points by longhaul | 107 comments
Project page from Northeastern University presenting the first large-scale measurement study of the connected-vehicle ecosystem and the data cars share with manufacturers and third parties.
Cars collect a startling amount of data about you(bbc.com)
444 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 231 comments
BBC Future article by Thomas Germain on how modern cars collect vast amounts of driver data and how this surveillance is expected to grow.
Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?(rivian.com)
706 points by Cider9986 | 302 comments
Rivian support article explaining how owners can disable vehicle connectivity and data collection, via a toggle in Canada or by requesting eSIM disabling from Rivian Service elsewhere.
Chrome extensions spying on users' browsing data(qcontinuum.substack.com)
416 points by qcontinuum1 | 170 comments
A Substack post reporting that 287 Chrome extensions with about 37 million users were found spying on users' browsing data.
Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does(servury.com)
390 points by ybceo | 252 comments
A blog post from Servury arguing that privacy has become a marketing term and that true anonymity must be built into system architecture; page showed a Cloudflare check.
FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies(ftc.gov)
464 points by nabla9 | 293 comments
FTC press release announcing a staff report finding that large social media and video streaming companies engaged in vast surveillance of users with lax privacy controls.
Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service(proton.me)
611 points by jlpcsl | 311 comments
A Proton blog post arguing that Microsoft's new Outlook app collects and shares extensive user data with Microsoft and advertising partners.
Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla(foundation.mozilla.org)
520 points by sandermvanvliet | 254 comments
Mozilla Foundation blog post reporting that all 25 car brands it reviewed, including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota, failed its privacy test.