privacy
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Apple’s AI Cloud System Makes Big Privacy Promises, but Can It Keep Them?
Apple’s new Apple Intelligence system is designed to infuse generative AI into the core of iOS. The system offers users a host of new services, including text and image generation as well as organizational and scheduling features. Yet while the system provides impressive new capabilities, it also brings complications. For one thing, the AI system…
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How to Prevent X’s Audio and Video Calls Feature From Revealing Your IP Address
X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform. Musk’s vision has elicited nearly collective horror from users of his platform—as well as potential risks to their IP addresses. X began rolling out the audio and video…
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Your Phone Is Not Listening to You
The tech myth has pervaded all corners of society, but its origins show it was never true to begin with.
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There’s a Dumb New Plan to Fix the Cookie Popups That Torture You Every Day
Tired of dealing with popups begging you to accept cookies? Blame the EU. In 2018, Europe unleashed a groundbreaking privacy law called the GDPR that, among a billion other things, makes websites ask permission before tracking you with cookies. A lot of companies switched their whole systems over rather than building special European versions of…