Your AI Confessions Are Being Sold. Here's How.

Browser extensions posing as VPN tools are intercepting intimate AI chatbot conversations and selling them to data brokers. What this means for Australian users.

The Daily Perspective
Your Pseudonym Is Not Protecting You. AI Just Proved It.

New research shows LLMs can identify pseudonymous internet users with 67% accuracy for as little as $1 per profile, exposing gaps in Australia's privacy laws.

The Daily Perspective
Epstein files: who decides what information is released to the public? | The-14

Who controls what public sees in the Epstein files? Laws, courts and redactions shape disclosure, balancing transparency, privacy, justice and accountability!

The-14 Pictures

Update: TSA is sending airline passenger lists to ICE multiple times a week - US immigration checks these lists against its own databases to identify people. https://viewfromthewing.com/tsa-is-feeding-ice-lists-of-every-airline-passenger-turning-airports-into-chokepoints-for-law-enforcement/
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When it comes to your personal data held by the government - the phrase "“unprecedented usage” is code for illegal!

In Nov., the Social Security Administration (SSA) quietly revealed (issued a SORN) the agency would be sharing “citizenship and immigration information” with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The SORN makes the data sharing official and allows for public feedback. The SSA SORN has already received more than 10,000 comments, including, “No, absolutely not. This is so dangerous.” https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-data-grab-putting-us-citizens-at-risk/ #Privacy #DataPrivacy #Data #PrivacyAct #DHS #SSA #SocialSecurity #VoterVerification #PersonalData #SORN #Immigration #DataSharing

"Meta’s surveillance isn’t limited to your online activity. The company also encourages businesses to send them data about your offline purchases and interactions. Even deleting your Facebook and Instagram accounts won’t stop Meta from harvesting your personal data. Meta in 2018 admitted to collecting information about non-users, including their contact details and browsing history."

#LenaCohen, 2025

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

Isn't this illegal in NZ under the Privacy Act?

#privacy #PrivacyAct

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities

Microsoft has admitted to a French senate hearing that it can't protect EU data from U.S. government snooping.

Forbes

🚨 Privacy Alert: Voting rights groups are suing to stop the Trump administration’s SAVE system overhaul, calling it “an illegal and secretive consolidation of millions of Americans’ sensitive data.”

The lawsuit warns of permanent privacy harm and data misuse across federal agencies.
đź§  Is this the biggest test yet for the Privacy Act of 1974?

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#InfoSec #DataPrivacy #ElectionSecurity #CyberLaw #PrivacyAct #DigitalRights #Surveillance

New class action lawsuit filed against the federal government's consolidation of personal information. #PrivacyAct https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558312/privacy-personal-data-trump-lawsuit-dogeC
New class action lawsuit filed against the federal government's consolidation of personal information. #PrivacyAct https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5558312/privacy-personal-data-trump-lawsuit-dogeC
DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

DOGE team members uploaded a database with the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans to a vulnerable cloud server, according to the agency’s chief data officer.

The New York Times