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15 articles on Privacy — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

Copilot's Context Engine Doesn't Know What a Secret Is

A mitmproxy teardown shows greedy context harvesting shipping .env secrets, while the controls to stop it are enterprise-gated.

Lenn Voss

Three WebKit Features Walk Straight Past Your Proxy

Apple says Private Relay hides your DNS queries, but a single dns-prefetch hint proves otherwise.

Article · 1w ago0

Tile Chose Paperwork Over Cryptography, and Stalkers Won

Georgia Tech's teardown of Tile's protocol is a checklist of how not to threat-model a BLE product.

Article · 2w ago0

Windows GDID Is a Device ID With No Off Switch

A court filing confirmed a persistent Windows install fingerprint that survives VPNs and privacy toggles.

Article · 4w ago1

Grok Build Uploaded Full Repos Without Real Opt-Out

Wire captures show the CLI shipped complete git history to GCS, and the privacy toggle did nothing.

Article · 1mo ago0

Chromium 148 Made Math.tanh an OS Fingerprint

A quiet V8 switch to host std::tanh now leaks Linux, macOS, or Windows from a single double.

Article · 1mo ago0

Grok Build Uploads Your Whole Repo by Default

A wire-level capture of the official CLI gives teams a concrete privacy baseline before they point it at real code.

Article · 1mo ago0

Chrome's Silent 4GB AI Download: The Cost of Shipping Web AI

Google's non-consensual deployment of Gemini Nano is a regulatory mess, but it reveals the infrastructure of future Web AI.

Article · 1mo ago0

Google Open Sources Longfellow ZK for Privacy-First Age Verification

The newly released cryptographic library aims to help developers comply with strict age laws without storing sensitive user identities.

Article · 1mo ago1

Why Apple's Hide My Email Leak Is an Architectural Warning

A year-old unfixed vulnerability exposing real iCloud email addresses highlights the fragility of relying on platform-level privacy proxies.

Article · 1mo ago5

Cryptographic Trust Over Tracking: Inside the PACT Protocol

Cloudflare and major browsers propose Private Access Control Tokens to replace invasive bot detection with anonymous cryptographic proof.

Article · 1mo ago0

Claude Now Wants Your ID — KYC Comes to AI

Anthropic gates certain Claude capabilities behind government-ID checks via Persona; here's who it actually hits and why the precedent matters.

News · 1mo ago4

Demystifying iOS Device Fingerprinting with Loupe

Mysk's open-source tool exposes the public APIs that native iOS apps use to quietly track and identify users.

Article · 1mo ago3

License Plate Readers Can Now Fingerprint Your Phone, Earbuds, and Tires

Leonardo's ELSAG SignalTrace bolts RF device-detection onto plate readers. Here's the wireless tech that makes it work — and why it's so hard to dodge.

Article · 1mo ago0

Massachusetts' Location-Data Ban Is a New Compliance Line for Mobile and Analytics Devs

The state's Consumer Data Privacy Act blanket-bans selling precise geolocation data — and because it covers visitors too, any app touching MA users is in scope.

News · 2mos ago5