HeadFlash Privacy

Ethereum's new zkAPI lets users pay for AI models without revealing identity, while Delhi's 2,500 AI camera plan and Australian chatbot privacy reforms raise fresh concerns.

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• Ethereum Foundation launches zkAPI to let users pay for AI models without revealing identity
• Delhi roads to get 2,500 AI cameras; privacy advocates concerned about ‘surveillance infra’
• Australia’s proposed laws could help regulate privacy risks from chatbots – if we get the details right
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• Norwell police to discontinue use of Flock Safety cameras

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Pentagon notifies service members of a nine-month DMDC hack, while 44,000 object to Palantir's NHS data platform and a study finds cars sharing more data than phones.

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• Pentagon Begins Alerting Possibly Millions of Service Members About Personnel Database Breach
• 44,000 object to Palantir’s NHS data platform, the Guardian reports
• Your Car Is Sharing More Private Data Than Your Smartphone. Who’s Getting It?
• How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
• Muse AI Shared Someone's Address, Error Traced to Confusion About Permissions

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California keeps sensitive data on sale, connected cars phone home, and a filesystem flaw tracks users across every major OS.

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• Location, Health, Immigration Data Still for Sale in California After Newsom Veto
• 19 Out of 21 Late-Model Cars Tested Shared Data With 3rd Parties, Including Big Tech Companies: Study
• New Attack Can Track You Across Operating Systems Without Elevated Privileges
• The EU is Pushing to Weaken Privacy Rules for AI | liberties.eu
• Pentagon data breach took months to discover, reports show

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A Santa Fe jury found Meta misled users over Cambridge Analytica, with penalties that could top $200 billion. Plus: Apple's new watch AI, PACER fees, and more.

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• Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica
• Watch What You Say
• One day online generates more privacy small print than Shakespeare’s complete works, new study finds
• Federal courts are running a surplus charging for public records
• Microsoft Tests Cloud-Based Windows Recovery Feature

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An OpenAI agent hacked Australia's Medicare portal, Google pays €403M over hidden tracking, and the Supreme Court greenlights a voter-purge database.

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• Australia launches investigation after OpenAI agent hacked healthcare database | Medicare Australia | The Guardian
• Google hit with €403M fine over hidden tracking feature that's still live in 30+ countries
• Breaking: Supreme Court lets Trump admin use flawed database for voter purges
• EU Council Nears GDPR Deal That Would Let Tracking IDs Escape Privacy Law
• Investigative journalist seeks damages from police over unlawful phone surveillance | Computer Weekly
• Facebook's Privacy Scandal Never Really Ended. New Mexico Just Reopened the Case.
• NHS Trust removes 10 people amid concerns over Noah Woods ‘data breach’
• The US could send Australian personal data to third countries under secret ‘partnership’
• Researchers Publish 'Zcash-Style' Design for Private Bitcoin Transfers
• How Much Of Your Personal Data Can iOS 27's New Siri Actually See?
• EDPB's Google search data letter clashes with its own guidance, lawyer says
• Explaining contextual advertising

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TikTok drops its appeal and pays a £12.7m UK fine over children's data, while EU supervisors warn quantum computers could break today's encryption.

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• Tiktok to pay £12.7m UK child privacy fine despite disputing watchdog findings
• No Warrant, No Tracking: Florida Rep. Steube’s New Bill Takes Aim At Flock Safety Surveillance Networks
• Russia’s state-backed messaging app Max can secretly change how it surveils individual users, researchers at InterSecLab find — Meduza
• EU data chief adds voice to unions’ fears of ‘carte blanche’ use of workers’ data for AI
• Q-Day Could Arrive Before Quantum Computers Are Commercially Useful, EU Warns

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Flock's CEO skipped a Senate hearing where a wrongly jailed woman testified, researchers reported 240 ALPR misuse incidents and exposed cameras.

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• Three takeaways from the Senate hearing on Flock's camera network
• U.S. Senators question use of Flock cameras and data access at subcommittee hearing
• Google DeepMind introduces secure server-side AI memory
• Signal introduces registration without a phone number
• A Nigerian court says Truecaller’s consent doesn’t cover the data in your contacts

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Seattle becomes the first US city to ban algorithmic grocery pricing, while Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over a breach affecting 2.2 million people.

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• Seattle Votes 7-2 to Restrict Algorithmic Grocery Pricing - The Stranger
• Sweden fines Miljödata $183,000 over breach affecting 2.2 million
• League City will consider citizen-led committee to oversee Flock camera use | Houston Public Media
• Two-Tier Encryption in the UK
• Why mathematicians are hiding research results in zero-knowledge proofs

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Google owes Ireland $462M over location tracking, BYD quietly rewrites its Australian privacy policy, and cheap smart glasses leak user data.

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• Google fined $462M in Ireland over location data collection practices - SiliconANGLE
• EV manufacturer BYD scrubs references to 'China' and 'surveillance' from its privacy policy
• Ultra-cheap smart glasses leaving Australians' personal data exposed to hackers
• U.S. Employers Use Software To Punish Workers At 16 Times More Than Europe Does
• Even a VPN Can't Protect You From This Browser Security Flaw

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OpenAI's ad collector ties your ChatGPT account to what you do on Chewy, Wayfair and hundreds of other sites, while Reform UK pledges to scrap GDPR.

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• ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
• Reform UK contract for 5.7 million small firms pledges to repeal GDPR
• EU Watchdog: Europol's Internet Surveillance Tool Cannot Launch Without Oversight Conditions
• Researchers found a way to eavesdrop on headphones from 30 meters away, and encryption can't stop it
• Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool
• Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
• Telehealth companies keep exposing their customers' medical data. What should they do?
• One million signatures sought to stop mandatory online ID and age checks - EU Perspectives
• Why the EU age-verification tool does not solve privacy concerns - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
• RSA-896 Cracked with Claude AI, Second Factoring Record in Sixteen Days
• Firms could face 5% revenue fines for re-identifying data in Canada
• EDENRED PAY DATA BREACH: Edelson Lechtzin LLP Launches Investigation Into Exposure of Social Security Numbers
• Achieving CNIL/EU ePrivacy compliance for email tracking with Amazon SES
• 'Information-collecting monstrosities' — Are Chinese connected cars really worse for your privacy?
• How people are fighting back against Flock cameras

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