Does Anybody Care About Data Breaches?
Data breaches are now a routine part of life, but people affected still have almost no way to get a remedy. Lucy Purdon asks what real consequences for companies could look like.
privacy and security
‘Protest like nobody is watching!’
Why the ‘Pervert Glasses’ are rightly reviled.
Should ChatGPT Read Your Encrypted Messages?
OpenAI’s new iMessage plugin for ChatGPT lets users search their messages and draft and send replies through the chatbot on their desktop. But should they?
Why Ofcom Objects to TikTok's Age Assurance Methods
Ofcom's new investigation asks whether TikTok's inference-based age checks are "highly effective" enough. Audrey Hingle uses a new Internet-Draft on age verification architecture to show how every age assurance method trades efficacy against privacy, and where TikTok's choice sits on that curve
Apple-Google Encrypted RCS Buries the Interoperability vs. Security Myth
End-to-end encrypted RCS between iPhones and Android phones is a security win for billions of users and a challenge to the industry argument that interoperability and security are incompatible.
Confidential Chats in the Age of AI
Confer is one early example of how to build a private AI chatbot. We should have many more says Mallory Knodel.
See No Evil, Speak No Evil, Hear No Evil
A look at the facts surrounding the debate on social media bans.