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Mike Johnson faces revolt from GOP privacy hawks threatening to kill FISA renewal as deadline looms

House GOP leadership struggled to secure votes for a three-year Section 702 FISA extension as conservatives demand tougher privacy guardrails.…

Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws (Derek B. Johnson/CyberScoop)

Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop : Gartner: US states issued $3.45B in privacy-related fines to companies in 2025, a total larger than the last five years combined, driven by new privacy laws — The incre…

Security Camera Privacy Zones: How I Use This Tool for Better Performance and Protection

Your home security cam probably has privacy zone technology, and you should be using it. Here's how and why.…

US supreme court hears whether smartphone location data warrants infringe users’ privacy

Lawyer for DoJ argued actions taken in public while in possession of a smartphone afforded no expectation of privacy The US supreme court is considering whether sprawling warrants for smartphone locat…

Got OpenAI's privacy filter model running on-device via ExecuTorch

Been experimenting with running OpenAI's privacy filter model on mobile through ExecuTorch. Sharing in case it's useful to others working on similar problems. Setup: - Runtime: ExecuTorch - Memory foo…

Privacy-first Markdown app with wiki links, image links, slash command, and a Local LLM plugin, no split panel preview

Binderus is a free, local privacy-first Markdown wysiwyg editor with a Notion-style block UI. Your notes never leave your machine unless you put them somewhere yourself. What's new in 0.9.0: 🔗 Wiki l…

How to audit what ChatGPT knows about you – and reclaim your data privacy

If you're looking to limit the amount of personal information you give ChatGPT, these are the main settings you should know about.…

How I built a privacy-first AI medical tool in a single HTML file — architecture breakdown

Want More Privacy? Here's How to Lock and Hide Apps on Your iPhone

Keep prying eyes out of your apps with this trick.…

The Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy

Websites break California privacy law at ‘industrial scale,’ survey finds – The Markup

Litecoin rewrites three hours of history to undo its first major privacy-layer exploit (leading to double-spends)

Best VPN services: 7 top picks for every VPN need

We tested the field and picked the best VPN overall plus the best options for budget, free use, privacy, and travel.…

Local Whisper Audio Transcription

Transcribe audio locally using Faster‑Whisper and Python. Emphasis on privacy‑first and CPU/GPU‑ready.…

The Tools That Convinced Me to Take Browser Security More Seriously

Prevent websites from collecting and selling your data with these browser-safety and online-privacy tools.…

Lightweight Analytics for Jekyll: Why I Chose Hit Kounter Over Google Analytics

Privacy and Speed First As I continue to polish my Jekyll blog on GitHub Pages, I realized I needed...…

Vibe Medicine: Redefining Biomedical Research Through Human-AI Co-Work

With the emergence of large language models (LLMs) and AI agent frameworks, the human-AI co-work paradigm known as Vibe Coding is changing how people code, making it more accessible and productive. In…

Does Machine Unlearning Preserve Clinical Safety? A Risk Analysis for Medical Image Classification

The application of Deep Learning in medical diagnosis must balance patient safety with compliance with data protection regulations. Machine Unlearning enables the selective removal of training data fr…

STELLAR-E: a Synthetic, Tailored, End-to-end LLM Application Rigorous Evaluator

The increasing reliance on Large Language Models (LLMs) across diverse sectors highlights the need for robust domain-specific and language-specific evaluation datasets; however, the collection of such…

Watching TV with the Second-Party

Smart TVs implement a unique tracking approach called Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to profile viewing activity of their users. ACR is a Shazam-like technology that works by periodically capturi…

This hidden TV feature tracks your viewing - here's how to turn it off (no matter what brand)

Samsung, LG, and Sony TVs can pose privacy risks - here's how to avoid a major one.…

Hundreds of millions at risk from Chinese shopping app malware

While many apps collect vast troves of user data, sometimes without explicit consent, experts say Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo has taken violations of privacy and data security to the next level…

UK information commissioner steps back amid workplace investigation

John Edwards says he is fully cooperating with ICO’s independent inquiry into ‘HR matters’ The UK’s information commissioner has stepped back from his job after the data protection regulator launched …

Agents for end-to-end document redaction and review tasks (OCR and PII identification - Qwen 3.6 vs closed-source comparison)

(Links to all files, apps, and repos mentioned in this post can be found in the 'full post' link at the bottom) Agents for document redaction and review tasks Document redaction tasks involve text and…

Building a self-healing AI agent: How we use a Two-Tier architecture to keep user data private.

Hey everyone, we just launched our iOS AI Agent out of a 1k-user beta, and I wanted to share the architecture-specifically how we handle the privacy vs. utility tradeoff. We wanted an agent that could…

EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs

A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay attacks the protocol can't stop, and why the 'privacy-preserving' system is a troja…