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Privacy & Data

ChatGPT Can Now Read Your iMessages, And It Needs Full Disk Access To Do It

OpenAI's Apple Messages plugin reads, searches, summarises and sends across iMessage, SMS and RCS on Apple silicon Macs. Everyone who ever texted that machine is in the database, and none of them was asked.

24 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
The Kuala Lumpur skyline at dusk, illustrating a report on Malaysia enforcing social media age verification for users under sixteen.
Privacy & Data

Malaysia's Under-16 Rules Let Platforms Check Your Age Without Ever Seeing Your ID

Age verification has been in force since 1 June for platforms above eight million users, with penalties to RM10m. MyDigital ID can confirm eligibility against national records without the platform storing a document or biometric.

23 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A commercial street in South Korea lined with Hangul shop signage, illustrating a report on the Korean AI Basic Act seven months after it took effect.
Privacy & Data

Korea's AI Law Has Been In Force Seven Months. The Maximum Fine Is About US$20,000.

The AI Basic Act and its Enforcement Decree took effect on 22 January. Penalties cap at ₩30m, are suspended for a year except where life or human rights are at stake, and the grace period ends five months from now.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Privacy & Data

How to Stop an Agent Returning Documents the User Should Not See

A vector search scoped three ways, and measured each time. Unfiltered, four in five results belonged to another team; filtering afterwards in application code stopped the leak and answered sixteen of twenty questions with silence.

21 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Privacy & Data

An Extortion Group Claimed 25 Million Records. 218,000 Appeared.

ShinyHunters listed Alcon on 2 August alleging more than 25 million Salesforce records. The data later published held 218,000 email addresses and corporate contact fields. Only one of those numbers can be checked.

21 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An antique brass weighing scale with a curved dial and metal pan, illustrating a report on a regulator requiring comparable consent prompts from a platform owner.
Privacy & Data

Germany Made Apple Redesign The Tracking Prompt It Wrote For Rivals

The Bundeskartellamt closed a four-year case after Apple agreed to align its own consent prompts with the ones third-party apps must show, drop discouraging wording, and let publishers merge the prompt with GDPR consent.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Privacy & Data

A Data Broker Wanted Your SSN Before It Would Stop Selling Your Data

California fined LocateSmarter US$116,490 for demanding unnecessary personal information to process an opt-out. The fine is small; applying data minimisation to the rights mechanism itself is the part that travels.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Privacy & Data

Meta Is On Trial In Oakland, And The Children's Data Claim Is The One That Travels

Twenty-nine states, an advisory jury and a theoretical US$1.4 trillion. The design-harm allegations will lead the coverage; the statutory claim about children's personal data is what regulators in other jurisdictions can actually use.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Privacy & Data

SafePal Lost 39,798 Customer Records, And The Shipping Address Is The Dangerous Field

No seed phrases, no keys, no funds — the breach came through a third-party order-tracking plugin. What leaked was a filtered list of likely cryptocurrency holders with their home addresses attached, and more than 30 phishing sites were already up.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Rows of brightly coloured school lockers with keys in the doors, illustrating a report on ChatGPT for Teens and age prediction.
Privacy & Data

OpenAI Will Put You in ChatGPT for Teens Without Asking

A separate experience for 13 to 17 year olds launched on 18 August, and an age-prediction system routes suspected under-18s into it automatically. Prediction and verification fail in opposite directions, and Malaysia is already demanding the other one.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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