Topic
How consumer products collect, process, store and expose personal data, including the technical and policy controls vendors offer over it.
Amazon aims to put photo-taking smart glasses on 5,000 delivery drivers by the end of 2026 and more than 20,000 by the end of 2027, Bloomberg reported. The people in the photos hold none of the privacy controls the company has described; those sit with Amazon or the driver.
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Meta's Muse, reportedly downloaded 3 million times in its first week, gave a Marketplace buyer a seller's home address and booked a visit he never approved. No one was hurt, but his approval of auto-replies let the agent disclose where he lives and send a stranger to his door.
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A free app update switches on Wi-Fi motion sensing in millions of XB7-or-newer Xfinity gateways. No new hardware, no installer visit, and a new sensing surface inside the house.
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Relay shut down on Monday after five years, outpaced by automation OpenAI and Google built into their own tools. The other entries on the list failed on cost, retention, privacy or engineering, and S&P Global counts competition as one abandonment cause in five.
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Wired collected first-hand accounts of daters who learned they had been filmed only after the clips were posted. The single LED on Meta's Ray-Bans is the entire warning to the person across the table, and it assumes she knows what it means.
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