Lawmakers just advanced online safety laws that require age verification at the app store

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the KIDS Act is a ‘smoke screen’ for what Big Tech lobbyists want.

This fake Google Security check can steal your passwords. Here’s how to stay safe

A new phishing campaign is impersonating Google’s account security checks to trick users into installing a malicious web app that steals passwords, passcodes, and other sensitive data directly from ...
CNET

Gemini Expands to Live Camera Feeds: What It Means for Your Privacy

Gemini for Home's AI is getting a significant upgrade -- if you don't mind it peering through your security cam.
Microsoft

Malicious AI Assistant Extensions Harvest LLM Chat Histories

Malicious AI browser extensions collected LLM chat histories and browsing data from platforms such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek.
Mother Jones

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future

This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a ...