The collision between AI capabilities and personal privacy — facial recognition deployments, training data consent, surveillance infrastructure, biometric databases, and the evolving legal landscape around AI-driven data collection.
Meta announced this week it's shutting down end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs — a feature they spent years rolling out with hundreds of engineers — because "few users opted in" and the company needs to scan messages for harassment, scams, and law enforcement requests[7]. A R…
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Meta announced this week it's shutting down end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs. The official reason: low opt-in rates and the need to respond to scams, harassment, and law enforcement requests. The actual reason, according to a post on r/privacy citing alleged former Instagra…
{{entity:palantir|Palantir}} is expanding its AI surveillance tools across British policing and {{entity:healthcare|healthcare}} systems, and the move has triggered a rare moment of cross-partisan concern about mass profiling and police deployment without public {{entity:accounta…
{{entity:palantir|Palantir}}, the intelligence startup with deep {{entity:pentagon|Pentagon}} ties, is expanding into British policing and {{entity:healthcare|healthcare}} systems — and the {{beat:ai-privacy|privacy}} pushback is cutting across political divides in ways that rare…
Lawmakers are confronting the HHS over health data privacy in AI tools, establishing that existing regulations are not designed for the real-time data flows now routine in healthcare.
{{entity:google|Google}}'s decision to offer higher rate limits for {{entity:google|Google}} AI Studio through paid {{entity:google|Google}} One subscriptions is triggering skepticism about what users are actually trading away[¹]. The criticism centers on a deliberate framing gap…
Bluesky users are acutely aware that the FBI's AI surveillance practices bypass judicial oversight, creating a new accountability gap for civil liberties that current legal frameworks do not address.
Meta's new smart glasses, positioned as smartphone replacements, are normalizing always-on biometric surveillance, revealing a profound contradiction where market adoption overrides persistent privacy concerns.