Privacy

Take Down
New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
Matt Burgess



Deep Dives
Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online
Dhruv Mehrotra


Say What?
Apple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch’s Listening Features
Lily Hay Newman


Pivot to Privacy
Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It
Lily Hay Newman and Maxwell Zeff

System Failure
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Matt Burgess


Uncanny Valley
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, and Leah Feiger


Network Effect
How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Caroline Haskins


Double Exposure
Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces
Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Flocking Hell
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron



Security Roundup
Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Return to Sender
Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All
Matt Burgess


Say Cheese
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Dell Cameron and Maddy Varner
