How to Block Someone on TikTok: Easy Step-by-Step Guides
TikTok’s great for entertainment – until someone crosses a line. Maybe it’s a stranger spamming your comments, a creep blowing up your DMs, or an account posting stuff that just…
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ChatGPT and Privacy: Everything You Need to Know in 2025
You’ve probably caught wind of some concerning headlines about ChatGPT – like how it keeps your deleted chats or how some users accidentally get responses meant for someone else. Before…
How Massive Server-to-Server Data Transfers Represent a Hidden Threat to Privacy
It's well known that we are routinely tracked whenever we use the internet. Most people also understand that the primary business model online is surveillance advertising, whereby huge quantities of…
The Latest Instalment in the Privacy Battle between Max Schrems and Meta Just Dropped
Last month we wrote about the latest development in a long-running saga to make Meta abide by the EU’s GDPR privacy law. It’s a vital battle for two reasons: first,…
Privacy Activists File Complaints against the European Commission and X over Chat Control Ad Campaign
One of the big battles underway in the world of privacy at the moment involves attempts by governments around the globe to undermine encryption. The principal justification for doing so…
ChatGPT Is One Year Old: Here’s AI’s Next Attack on Privacy, and What to Do About It
Although it’s hard to believe, it's only a year since ChatGPT appeared and ignited the current frenzy over AI and large language models. As an article in the New York…
Meta’s New Ad-Free Subscriptions Are Already Under Legal Attack from Privacy Activists
Back in August we wrote about Meta’s surprise announcement that it would seek consent from users in the EU, EEA, and Switzerland before showing them behavioral advertisements. A few weeks…
EFF Agrees: Protecting Privacy Is the Best Way to Address the Internet’s Biggest Problems
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is probably the best-known organization that's fighting for digital rights. It's just released a new report with a title that's certain to interest the readers…
Real-Time Bidding Is Bad for Your Privacy and a Serious Threat to National Security
It’s extraordinary to think that it's been six years since this blog started warning readers about real-time bidding (RTB), the system behind most online ads. In the few hundredths of…
Advanced AI Chatbots Can Now Infer Detailed Personal Attributes from General Social Media Posts
It's old news that the exciting new generation of LLM-based AI chatbots posed a serious threat to people’s privacy. But nine months is a long time in the world of…