Privacy

ASEAN Tech 6 min Vietnam deleted the rule that made its ID numbers decodable, and nobody stopped decoding them Since 1 July 2024 no Vietnamese instrument says the 12-digit citizen ID has any internal structure. The decree... SA Sarah Chew 4 Sep Privacy & Data 7 min Singapore's 3 days and Malaysia's 72 hours are not the same deadline Both look like the same breach-notification window, but the clocks start at different events. Singapore's thre... PR Priya Nair 4 Sep Privacy & Data 7 min The Thomson Reuters C-Track Breach May Include Sealed Court Records Files left C-Track in March, were found on 30 June and disclosed on 3 September. The remedy offered is credit... PR Priya Nair 4 Sep Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Disabled Cameras on Thousands of Smart Glasses With Tampered Lights Covering the capture light temporarily locks the camera and reverses when the tape comes off. New hardware det... AM Amelia Wong 3 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min 500,000 New ID Documents a Day Is Not a Historical Breach A dark-web service advertised documents from an identity verification firm and claimed half a million new ones... PR Priya Nair 3 Sep Consumer Tech 6 min Android 17 Hides the Domain Name. The IP Address Is Still in Plain Sight. Three things identify a destination: the DNS lookup, the SNI field and the IP address. Encrypted Client Hello... AM Amelia Wong 1 Sep Developer Tools 6 min VLC Passed 7 Billion Downloads, the Only Number It Can Measure Every product of this reach reports monthly active users because every product of this reach phones home. VLC... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Sep Privacy & Data 6 min What an ID number's check digit actually proves The last character of most identity numbers is computed from the ones before it, using a published formula any... PR Priya Nair 31 Aug Developer Tools 4 min How to Self-Host Nextcloud with Docker The first decision is not a setting: there are two official deployment routes and they are not variations on e... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Privacy & Data 7 min 41% of Britons Say They Would Hold Back Criticism of Officials Polling for the Center for Democracy and Technology finds two thirds of British adults would not trust any gov... PR Priya Nair 31 Aug Developer Tools 5 min How to Self-Host Immich with Docker Serving photographs is easy. Recognising the faces in them is what decides whether the installation is comfort... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Aug Privacy & Data 6 min Strong Opposition to Licence Plate Cameras Went From 20% to 31% in a Year The crossing from support to opposition is the reported result. The number that actually moved is strongly opp... PR Priya Nair 30 Aug Privacy & Data 6 min Brazil Fined TikTok $30m. The Deletion Order Is the Expensive Part. The regulator found processing without a legal basis across guest sessions as well as logged-in accounts, and... PR Priya Nair 30 Aug Consumer Tech 6 min ChatGPT's Temporary Chats Can Now Read Your Memory and Be Saved A personalised temporary chat uses your memories, custom instructions and plugins while still creating none of... AM Amelia Wong 30 Aug Privacy & Data 5 min How to Stop ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok Training on Your Chats (2026) Four switches with almost the same name, doing four different things. Three are on by default. One also sets y... PR Priya Nair 29 Aug Privacy & Data 7 min The Dangerous Part of the UK Airports Breach Is Not 8.7 Million Most of what was taken from Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands is wifi sign-up email. The parking and loun... PR Priya Nair 29 Aug Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem. Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min Ring's New Default Encryption Is Not End-to-End, by Design TAKE deletes Ring's copy of your video keys after 24 hours. Ring's own whitepaper describes the app returning... PR Priya Nair 29 Aug Privacy & Data 5 min Which Image Operations Strip Metadata A source image with six identifying tags and GPS coordinates, put through eight operations. Pillow drops every... PR Priya Nair 25 Aug Privacy & Data 6 min 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 sil... PR Priya Nair 24 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min 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 RM1... PR Priya Nair 23 Aug Privacy & Data 6 min 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 anothe... PR Priya Nair 21 Aug Privacy & Data 8 min 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 publish... PR Priya Nair 21 Aug Cybersecurity 6 min What Your Own Domain Tells a Stranger OSINT needs no budget and no access. We ran it against our own domain and found 26 robots.txt rules naming /ad... KE Kenji Tanaka 19 Aug