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EU’s Chat Control could put government monitoring inside robots

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EU’s Chat Control could put government monitoring inside robots 2026-01-12 at 07:40 By Sinisa Markovic Cybersecurity debates around surveillance usually stay inside screens. A new academic study argues that this boundary no longer holds when communication laws extend into robots that speak, listen, and move among people. Researchers Neziha Akalin and Alberto Giaretta examine the […]

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Product showcase: Blokada for Android gives users control over network traffic

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Product showcase: Blokada for Android gives users control over network traffic 2026-01-06 at 08:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Blokada is a network privacy and ad-blocking application available on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is designed to reduce ads, block trackers, and limit unwanted network connections at the system level. Getting started Blokada’s interface is

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Researcher Spotlights WhatsApp Metadata Leak as Meta Begins Rolling Out Fixes

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Researcher Spotlights WhatsApp Metadata Leak as Meta Begins Rolling Out Fixes 2026-01-05 at 14:18 By Eduard Kovacs WhatsApp device fingerprinting can be useful in the delivery of sophisticated spyware, but impact is very limited without a zero-day. The post Researcher Spotlights WhatsApp Metadata Leak as Meta Begins Rolling Out Fixes appeared first on SecurityWeek. This

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What consumers expect from data security

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What consumers expect from data security 2025-12-31 at 08:50 By Anamarija Pogorelec Security teams spend years building controls around data protection, then a survey asks consumers a simple question about responsibility and the answer lands close to home. Most people believe they are in charge of their own data privacy, and they want systems that

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What if your face could say “don’t record me”? Researchers think it’s possible

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What if your face could say “don’t record me”? Researchers think it’s possible 2025-12-24 at 10:01 By Sinisa Markovic Phones, smart glasses, and other camera-equipped devices capture scenes that include people who never agreed to be recorded. A newly published study examines what it would take for bystanders to signal their privacy choices directly to

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Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal

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Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal 2025-12-23 at 13:16 By Associated Press Italy’s antitrust authority fined Apple $116 million after determining that operating one of its privacy features restricted App Store competition. The post Italy Antitrust Agency Fines Apple $116 Million Over Privacy Feature; Apple Announces Appeal appeared

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Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT Investigator

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Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT Investigator 2025-12-22 at 17:52 By Jennifer Leggio Shannon Miller shares her approach to creating domestic safety and a call to the cyber community to help reduce harm. The post Rising Tides: When Cybersecurity Becomes Personal – Inside the Work of an OSINT

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Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices

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Browser agents don’t always respect your privacy choices 2025-12-22 at 08:49 By Sinisa Markovic Browser agents promise to handle online tasks without constant user input. They can shop, book reservations, and manage accounts by driving a web browser through an AI model. A new academic study warns that this convenience comes with privacy risks that

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Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed

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Privacy risks sit inside the ads that fill your social media feed 2025-12-18 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Regulatory limits on explicit targeting have not stopped algorithmic profiling on the web. Ad optimization systems still adapt which ads appear based on users’ private attributes. At the same time, multimodal LLMs have lowered the barrier for

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What 35 years of privacy law say about the state of data protection

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What 35 years of privacy law say about the state of data protection 2025-12-12 at 09:52 By Anamarija Pogorelec Privacy laws have expanded around the world, and security leaders now work within a crowded field of requirements. New research shows that these laws provide stronger rights and duties, but the protections do not always translate

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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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Product showcase: Tuta – secure, encrypted, private email

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Product showcase: Tuta – secure, encrypted, private email 2025-12-11 at 08:13 By Help Net Security Tuta, formerly known as Tutanota, is built for anyone who wants email that stays private. Instead of treating encryption like a bonus feature, the service encrypts almost everything by default. That means your messages are locked down from the moment

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AI vs. you: Who’s better at permission decisions?

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AI vs. you: Who’s better at permission decisions? 2025-12-04 at 08:04 By Sinisa Markovic A single tap on a permission prompt can decide how far an app reaches into a user’s personal data. Most of these calls happen during installation. The number of prompts keeps climbing, and that growing pressure often pushes people into rushed

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Portmaster: Open-source application firewall

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Portmaster: Open-source application firewall 2025-12-03 at 08:11 By Anamarija Pogorelec Portmaster is a free and open source application firewall built to monitor and control network activity on Windows and Linux. The project is developed in the EU and is designed to give users stronger privacy without asking them to manage every rule by hand. A

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Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem

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Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem 2025-12-01 at 21:01 By Kevin Townsend Two technologies — one for public safety, one for controlled entry — show why trust in facial recognition must be earned, not assumed. The post Facial Recognition’s Trust Problem appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways

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Social data puts user passwords at risk in unexpected ways 2025-11-28 at 09:08 By Anamarija Pogorelec Many CISOs already assume that social media creates new openings for password guessing, but new research helps show what that risk looks like in practice. The findings reveal how much information can be reconstructed from public profiles and how

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New observational auditing framework takes aim at machine learning privacy leaks

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New observational auditing framework takes aim at machine learning privacy leaks 2025-11-28 at 08:34 By Sinisa Markovic Machine learning (ML) privacy concerns continue to surface, as audits show that models can reveal parts of the labels (the user’s choice, expressed preference, or the result of an action) used during training. A new research paper explores

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Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption

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Tor Project is rolling out Counter Galois Onion encryption 2025-11-25 at 17:04 By Sinisa Markovic People who rely on Tor expect their traffic to move through the network without giving away who they are. That trust depends on the strength of the encryption that protects each hop. Tor developers are preparing a major upgrade called

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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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