Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop — That Privacy Guy!

Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed.

LinkedIn hit with class action over hidden browser scan of 6,000 extensions

Class action filed April 6 alleges LinkedIn secretly scanned Chrome users for 6,000 extensions and routed device fingerprints to undisclosed third parties.

Parliament tells Dutch gov't to keep DigiD data out of American hands

A parliamentary majority has asked the current caretaker and upcoming new Cabinet to do everything in their power to prevent Dutch DigiD data from ending up in the United States government’s hands.

The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" is a Threat to Us All

A sharp indictment of the "nothing to hide" mindset and its role in building the very surveillance state that will one day turn against you.

Tech savvy users have most digital concerns - Taylor & Francis Newsroom

Digital concerns around privacy, online misinformation, and work-life boundaries are highest among highly educated, Western European millennials, finds a new study from researchers at UCL and the University of British Columbia.  The research, published in Information, Communication & Society, also found individuals with higher levels of digital literacy are the most affected by these concerns.   For the study, the […]

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Have I Been Pwned: Vietnam Airlines Data Breach

In October 2025, data stolen from the Salesforce instances of multiple companies by a hacking group calling itself "Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters" was publicly released. Among the affected organisations was Vietnam Airlines, which had 7.3M unique customer email addresses exposed following a breach of its Salesforce environment in June of that year. The compromised data also included names, phone numbers, dates of birth, and loyalty program membership numbers.