Nate is a member of Privacy Guides' video and news team. He has been advocating for privacy on his own website The New Oil since 2018, and is the former host of Surveillance Report, a popular cybersecurity podcast he published with Techlore.
We sat down with Carissa Véliz, author of 'Privacy is Power' and Oxford AI Ethics professor, to talk about how predictive AI will make a 'meritocracy' impossible, how lifelike chat bots are designed to deceive you, and the importance of privacy in the digital age.
Hacker One says that the rise of AI bug reports is overwhelming projects, meaning the bug bounty system needs to be rethought.
This week saw yet another breach from Booking.com, education giant McGraw-Hill, freelancing job board Fiverr, and many more.
Privacy Guides sat down with EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn to reflect on her over 30 years of service defending privacy and digital civil liberties at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
It was a slow week, though we did still see a high-profile breach of a startup that provides training data for AI which likely continue to be talked about for a while.
Your email address is the key to your digital life, learning how to secure it properly is instrumental in protecting your privacy & security.
FBI Director Kash Patel's emails, heath tech companies, and the European Commission are some of this week's most notable data breaches.
Many in the privacy and FOSS communities see the move as capitulation to draconian and invasive laws, despite developer assurances.
While convenient and efficient, the move raises concerns about a potential "slippery slope" of data abuses.
This week saw breaches from anime streaming service Crunchyroll, carmaker Mazda, cybersecurity company HackerOne, and a new hacker group called "Internet Yiff Machine." No, really.
Once more from the "irony" department: an "identity protection" company falling for a phishing attack.
This was a busy week for data breaches featuring Starbucks, Loblaw, DOGE, and many more.
Is your messenger private messenger as private as their marketing claims? We dive into the world of encrypted messengers and explain what your best options are and which ones you should definitely avoid!
Bitwarden touts the feature as a way to sort of "soft delete" items and keep your vault tidy.
This Week in Privacy #44
A lighter than normal week, but still we saw LexisNexis, a global paint maker, and more get hit, plus an update to the UH Cancer Center's breach.
