Surveillance, regulation, and the fight to keep data yours.
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With the final major browser committing to a hard cutoff date, third-party cookies are on track to be functionally extinct across the web within the next two release cycles.
Sam OkaforPrivacy Reporter
/2 min read
A widely used encrypted messaging app has quietly extended how long it retains connection metadata, prompting questions about what end-to-end encryption does and doesn't actually protect.
Sam Okafor//2 min
As phone and laptop makers push more AI features to run locally rather than in the cloud, privacy advocates see real gains — alongside new, less visible tradeoffs around update opacity and on-device data retention.
Sam Okafor//2 min