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Spur: “Everyone worries about the apps on their phone. Almost no one looks at the ones on their TV. We scanned 6,038 of them across LG and Samsung; 2,058 were selling your IP address. On screen, it’s a relaxing fish tank. Or a clock. Or solitaire. Or puppies. Under the hood, it is a residential …
Are You In the Weights [Yes I am, and so is this blog, and my ejournal LLRX. Cannot say that I am pleased.] Find out if you live on in GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 Mini, Opus 4.8, Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Gemini 3.1 Lite, Kimi K2 0905, DeepSeek V4, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.2 1B, GLM 4.7 …
EPIC: Administration’s Plan to Unlawfully Aggregate Personal Data to Enable Voter Purges Ended by Court Order in Significant Voting Issues Victory. A Trump-Vance administration attempt to unlawfully meddle in elections was struck down today, as a federal judge ordered the administration to end and disentangle a massive government database that consolidates millions of Americans’ sensitive …
Wired no paywall: “In May, the White House announced that its new app would be automatically downloaded onto the work phones of millions of government employees. The problem: Federal workers hate it and can’t get rid of it. Employees of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the State Department, and the Department of Labor (DOL), …
Via LLRX – Your medical provider might be recording your mental health care visits – Mental health providers are increasingly using AI technology to record conversations, raising privacy concerns among patients and practitioners. Roxsy Lin informs us that during these sessions, mental health professionals are required to obtain patients’ consent before using the tool. However, as shared …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 20, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
PCMag: “Google can log your searches, watch history, and activity across its various services. That might sound handy for a quick review of your browsing history or revisiting locations on Google Maps, but the company’s data collection practices can also feel very invasive. Your data helps Google serve faster searches and better location tracking, but …
PCMag – Chatbots are not your friend, no matter what they say. Here’s how to get the information you need while also limiting the data ChatGPT collects from your conversations: “AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, June 13, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
The New York Times Gift Article: “A digital whiteboard? A carpenter’s level? An image generator? These are just some of the built-in apps you may be hauling around on your phone or tablet. Apple includes these apps as bonus features, but if you never use them, would you rather have the storage space back? Preinstalled …
DatIndexUS: “Late last week, the Department of Commerce quietly issued a sweeping new policy that could reshape how the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) protect the privacy of people and businesses whose information they collect. The policy bars the agencies from using “noise infusion,” a family of privacy-protection techniques that make …
The Washingtonian: “The Washington Post Is Using Reader Data to Set Subscription Prices. How Does That Work? Some subscribers recently received a heads-up that they’re on the hook for a new rate “set by an algorithm using your personal data.” We asked a UVA expert what that might mean. If recent events have not compelled …
