Privacy

• Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 25 Feb 2026] Title:JSAM: Privacy Straggler-Resilient Joint Client Selection and Incentive Mechanism Design in Differentially Pri

• No, Samsung’s Privacy Display isn’t just a fancy screen protector for the S26 Ultra Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google • ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung unveils a P

• This Galaxy S26 privacy feature stole the show for me at Unpacked - how it works The new Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra features a built-in option for a Privacy Display • Follow ZDNET:

• Tech Mobile Phones Samsung S26 Ultra’s Privacy Display Makes Shoulder Surfing a Thing of the Past You can scroll on the subway in peace • Macy has been working for CNET for comin

• Do you remember the last time you were carded at a bar or restaurant • It was probably such a quick and normal experience, that you barely remember it • But have you ever been ca

• I tried the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra and need the Privacy Display feature on my iPhone ASAP Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google • ZDNET’s key takeaways Samsung’s G

• Tech Gadgets News I’m super impressed with the Galaxy S26 Ultra’s new Privacy Display New hardware features • New hardware features • Link Share Gift Maybe it’s a reflection of j

• Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet • The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password

• Britain’s data privacy watchdog slapped online forum Reddit on Tuesday with a fine worth nearly $20 million for failures involving children’s personal information • The Informati

• The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. •

• Vitalik Buterin reduced his Ether holdings by 17,000 ETH in a month. • The sale followed a $45M allocation to privacy‑focused projects. • Arkham data shows a steady outflow from

• Evaluated 11 LLMs generating six-word subject lines for German counselling emails. • Used hierarchical assessment: first categorize outputs, then rank within categories. • Nine a

• Lightweight modular framework augments outdoor multi‑cell fingerprinting using existing MDT records. • Spatial synthesis via KDE generates geographically coherent synthetic locat

• Street View captures high‑resolution street‑level photos, exposing private homes to public view. • Google automatically blurs faces and license plates, but homeowners can request

• HDMI-CEC lets TVs control connected devices, enabling remote commands across HDMI. • Disabling CEC stops TVs from sending power, volume, and channel changes to other gear. • CEC

• Column Policy Politics America desperately needs new privacy laws Invasive government and corporate surveillance isn’t inevitable - but Congress needs to act. • Link Share Gift

• ‘ZDNET Recommends’: What exactly does it mean? • ZDNET’s recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. • We gather data from the best ava

• Tech Gadgets Policy Smart glasses in court are a privacy nightmare That apparently didn’t stop Mark Zuckerberg’s team from wearing them. • That apparently didn’t stop Mark Zucker

• Discord partners with Persona for age verification, requiring facial scans before full platform access. • Researchers uncovered a publicly exposed Persona frontend on a US govern

• We recently introduced a policy governing large language model (LLM) assisted contributions to EFF’s open-source projects. • At EFF, we strive to produce high quality software to

• Fulu Foundation offers $10,000 bounty for developers to move Ring doorbell footage off Amazon’s cloud. • Goal: enable local storage on PCs or servers, giving users full control o

• Dash Evolution chain integrates Zcash Orchard privacy pool Initial features will support basic transfers, setting the stage for subsequent upgrades, including privacy features fo

• What does Prosus’s buyout mean for JustEat drivers

• 105 is a spectacularly bad idea. • It’s an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites for Wisconsinites and censors lawful speech. • We wrote abou

• Cisco Blogs/High Tech Policy/Rethinking Global Data Strategies: Insights from Cisco’s 2026 Privacy Benchmark Survey Rethinking Global Data Strategies: Insights from Cisco’s 2026

• (This appeared as an op-ed published February 12, 2026 in the San Jose Spotlight, written by Huy Tran (SIREN), Jeffrey Wang (CAIR-SFBA), and Jennifer Pinsof.) As ICE and other fe

• Report from EFF, Center for Just Journalism, and IPVM Helps Cut Through Sales Hype SAN FRANCISCO - A new report released today offers journalists tips on cutting through the sale

• Starknet taps EY Nightfall to bring institutional privacy to Ethereum rails StarkWare is integrating EY’s Nightfall privacy protocol into Starknet to give institutions private pa

• The integration allows institutions to conduct confidential payments, treasury management, and DeFi transactions on public blockchains.

• Google announced the first beta version of Android 17, which includes several privacy and security enhancements.Android developers have described several improvements related to

• Gadgets News Tech Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’ Leaker Ice Universe has shared a video of the tech in action. • Leaker Ice Universe has shared a

• Amazon’s Ring ends partnership with police surveillance firm Flock Safety amid public backlash. • The decision follows a 30‑second Super Bowl ad featuring a lost dog and camera n

• Binance’s CZ echoes Consensus panelists on lack of privacy blocking crypto adoption Lack of privacy is a barrier to both everyday and institutional use of crypto and blockchain t

• Credential‑stealing Chrome extensions discovered; Malwarebytes Labs offers detection and removal guide. • Fake online shops target Winter Olympics 2026 fans, phishing for payment

• The New York Times reported that Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses. • According to an internal Meta document, the company may launch the

• COO Maneesh Goyal argues de-identified data still risks re-identification with advanced compute. • Mayo Clinic Platform’s Orchestrate platform offers pharma/medtech access to ric

• Discord has begun rolling out mandatory age verification and the internet is, understandably, freaking out. • At EFF, we’ve been raising the alarm about age verification mandates

• The Privacy Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts) .

• The Privacy Working Group has published the first draft of a Group Note titled Considerations for Reviewing Differential Privacy Systems (for Non-Differential Privacy Experts) .

• Voir en Revision of OC 11: a modernised data privacy framework for CERN 12 February, 2026 | ByOffice of Data Privacy Following the Director-General’s approval on 17 December 2025

• Criticize the government online? • The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. • By abusing an investigative tool called ‘administrative sub

• Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement ‘free’ access to surveillance equipment that bypasses

• Kimwolf botnet infected millions of IoT devices, turning them into relays for malicious traffic. • In late 2025, the botnet began targeting I2P to hide control servers from taked

• Español We are calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lawless administrative su

• Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. • In the

• SAN FRANCISCO - California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put automated li

• Interviewer: Jillian York Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo

• Flock contracts have quietly spread to cities across the country. • But Flock ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) erode civil liberties from the moment they’re installed. • Wh

• Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. • But recent debates about

• Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. • But recent debates about

• For thirty years, internet users have benefited from a key federal law that allows everyone to express themselves, find community, organize politically, and participate in societ

• Dave Farber, 91, long-serving EFF Board member, passed away; revered as Internet’s Grandfather. • Lived in Tokyo since 83, Distinguished Professor at Keio University, Co-Director

• (This appeared as an op-ed published Friday, Feb. • 6 in the Daily Journal, a California legal newspaper.) Section 230, ’the 26 words that created the internet,’ was enacted 30 y

• Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. • The violence is shocking. •

• Federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have descended into utter lawlessness, most recently in Minnesota. • The v

• The phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ has been around for a long time, covering everything from computers with ‘brains’-think Data from Star Trek or Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Od

• Carnegie Mellon launches summer undergraduate research program to expand pathways into security and privacy The application deadline for this year’s program is February 1, 2026 M

• The Electronic Frontier Foundation stands with the people of Minneapolis and with all of the communities impacted by the ongoing campaign of ICE and CBP violence. • EFF will be c

• Español Today, we’re launchingEncrypt It Already, our push to get companies to offer stronger privacy protections to our data and communications by implementing end-to-end encryp

• EFF has long warned about the dangers of the ‘real-time bidding’ (RTB) system powering nearly every ad you see online. • A proposed class-action settlement with Google over their