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  • What LLMs Know About Their Users

    What LLMs Know About Their Users Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it all. Here’s a prompt you can use to give you a solid idea of what’s…

  • Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government

    Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government This is news: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where…

  • US as a Surveillance State

    US as a Surveillance State Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state. It’s good to see this finally being talked about. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier

  • Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data

    Windscribe Acquitted on Charges of Not Collecting Users’ Data The company doesn’t keep logs, so couldn’t turn over data: Windscribe, a globally used privacy-first VPN service, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, has been fully acquitted by a court in Athens, Greece, following a two-year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged in…

  • Apps That Are Spying on Your Location

    Apps That Are Spying on Your Location 404 Media is reporting on all the apps that are spying on your location, based on a hack of the location data company Gravy Analytics: The thousands of apps, included in hacked files from location data company Gravy Analytics, include everything from games like Candy Crush to dating…

  • Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting

    Google Is Allowing Device Fingerprinting Lukasz Olejnik writes about device fingerprinting, and why Google’s policy change to allow it in 2025 is a major privacy setback. Bruce Schneier Go to bruce schneier