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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research

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Fake smart home residents could stand in for real ones in security research 2026-07-14 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Smart home security research runs on a scarce ingredient: recordings of how real people use the gadgets in their homes. Getting that data means wiring up someone’s house and watching for months, which is slow, costly, […]

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Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request

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Most data brokers won’t tell you what happened to your deletion request 2026-07-10 at 09:30 By Sinisa Markovic Data brokers collect personal details on most adults in the United States and sell them to buyers that include employers, landlords, insurance companies, and government agencies. California gives residents a way to push back. You can ask

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Forget traffic lights, Google’s reCAPTCHA may ask for hand gestures

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Forget traffic lights, Google’s reCAPTCHA may ask for hand gestures 2026-06-19 at 13:46 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google has introduced hand gesture verification for reCAPTCHA, a new method for verifying that a user is human. Google’s reCAPTCHA is part of Google Cloud Fraud Defense, a fraud and abuse prevention platform for bot, account, and transaction protection.

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework

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X Square Robot open sources its robot-free data collection framework 2026-06-11 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic Companies building robots for physical work spend large amounts of time and money operating machines by hand to gather training examples. Each session with a physical robot produces a small number of demonstrations per day, which slows the growth

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General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales

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General Motors to pay $12.75 million over driver data sales 2026-05-12 at 17:35 By Anamarija Pogorelec General Motors has agreed to a $12.75 million settlement with California over allegations that it unlawfully sold drivers’ location and behavioral data to brokers, marking the largest penalty in the history of the state’s Consumer Privacy Act. Prosecutors say

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase

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The hidden smart fridge risks that emerge years after purchase 2026-05-12 at 09:28 By Mirko Zorz Household refrigerators are built to last more than a decade. The software, cloud services, and mobile apps that control them are not. A new analysis from Erik Buchmann at Leipzig University maps what happens when those two timelines collide,

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone

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Your work apps are quietly handing 19 data points to someone 2026-05-04 at 09:46 By Mirko Zorz Office work in 2026 runs through a stack of mobile apps that sit on the same phones people use for banking, messaging family, and tracking their location. Ten of the most common workplace apps in use across U.S.

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Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission

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Health insurance lead sites sell personal data within seconds of form submission 2026-04-10 at 08:57 By Mirko Zorz Lead generation websites that offer health insurance quotes collect sensitive personal data and sell it to multiple buyers within seconds of a user clicking submit. A study by researchers at UC Davis, Stanford University, and Maastricht University

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Wearable tech adoption continues as privacy worries grow

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Wearable tech adoption continues as privacy worries grow 2026-01-30 at 07:09 By Sinisa Markovic Over 1 billion users wear devices for tracking steps, sleep, heart rate, and other personal metrics. These devices collect a continuous stream of sensitive data, often tied to detailed user profiles and companion apps. New Clutch survey data show that as

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LLM privacy policies keep getting longer, denser, and nearly impossible to decode

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LLM privacy policies keep getting longer, denser, and nearly impossible to decode 2025-12-12 at 08:30 By Sinisa Markovic People expect privacy policies to explain what happens to their data. What users get instead is a growing wall of text that feels harder to read each year. In a new study, researchers reviewed privacy policies for

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Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed

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Aircraft cabin IoT leaves vendor and passenger data exposed 2025-11-25 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic The expansion of IoT devices in shared, multi-vendor environments, such as aircraft cabins, has created tension between the benefits of data collaboration and the risks to passenger privacy, vendor intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. A new study finds that even

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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about

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The privacy tension driving the medical data shift nobody wants to talk about 2025-11-24 at 08:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Most people assume their medical data sits in quiet storage, protected by familiar rules. That belief gives a sense of safety, but new research argues that the world around healthcare data has changed faster than the

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The privacy panic around machine learning is overblown

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The privacy panic around machine learning is overblown 2025-11-18 at 08:43 By Sinisa Markovic We often hear warnings about how machine learning (ML) models may expose sensitive information tied to their training data. The concern is understandable. If a model was trained on personal records, it may seem reasonable to assume that releasing it could

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New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices

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New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices 2025-10-27 at 14:32 By Ionut Arghire All new extensions will be required to declare their data collection practices in their manifest file using a specific key. The post New Firefox Extensions Required to Disclose Data Collection Practices appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Underwriting is shifting to AI-driven, real-time decisions by 2030

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Underwriting is shifting to AI-driven, real-time decisions by 2030 2025-10-02 at 07:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Underwriting is undergoing a major transformation as financial institutions push for faster decisions, better fraud detection, and greater personalization, according to a new global Experian report. By 2030, credit decisions are expected to become embedded in everyday transactions, with artificial

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LinkedIn now uses your data for AI by default, opt out now!

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LinkedIn now uses your data for AI by default, opt out now! 2025-09-18 at 16:00 By Sinisa Markovic LinkedIn is making major changes to its User Agreement and Privacy Policy, effective November 3, 2025. Among the most notable updates, the company will now use member data by default to improve its generative AI models, unless

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When typing becomes tracking: Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception

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When typing becomes tracking: Study reveals widespread silent keystroke interception 2025-09-11 at 09:17 By Mirko Zorz You type your email address into a website form but never hit submit. Hours later, a marketing email shows up in your inbox. According to new research, that is not a coincidence. A team of researchers from UC Davis,

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Can AI make threat intelligence easier? One platform thinks so

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Can AI make threat intelligence easier? One platform thinks so 2025-08-28 at 07:38 By Mirko Zorz When analysts at RH-ISAC found themselves spending 10 hours a week just collecting threat intelligence, they knew their process wasn’t sustainable. They were manually tracking blogs, RSS feeds, and social media channels, but it took too long to separate

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New SOHO router malware aims for cloud accounts, internal company resources

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New SOHO router malware aims for cloud accounts, internal company resources 2024-05-02 at 14:46 By Zeljka Zorz Cuttlefish, a new malware family that targets enterprise-grade small office/home office (SOHO) routers, is used by criminals to steal account credentials / secrets for AWS, CloudFlare, Docker, BitBucket and other cloud-based services. “With the stolen key material, the

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