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Courts and commentators disagree: U.S. and some state courts have overturned convictions where only automatic browser caches or thumbnails existed and prosecutors could not show awareness, while other...
Traffic and protocol metadata — such as which IP is connecting to which Tor relay, circuit timing and volume, and relay bandwidth claims — can still allow network-level observers (like ISPs or states)...
DuckDuckGo has had a commercial relationship with Microsoft that affected how its browser handled Microsoft-owned tracking scripts: DuckDuckGo acknowledged a “search syndication” or ad partnership tha...
Larry Ellison told investors in September 2024 that AI could power continuous surveillance — “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times” and “Citizens will be on their best behavior ...
Microsoft opened January 2026 with a flurry of product, security and corporate headlines: the company announced the acquisition of data-engineering startup Osmos to deepen autonomous data workflows in...
Apple says it does not directly collect or read the contents of your emails or texts for its on-device Apple Intelligence features; only users who opt in to share Device Analytics participate in a dif...
Microsoft has not been shown in the provided sources to have issued a blanket ban on Linux across its platforms; instead, reporting documents that European governments and organisations are actively m...
Human-rights organizations routinely accuse Egyptian authorities of using domestic surveillance, arrests and digital infiltration to target activists, journalists and young online organizers; Human Ri...
European public-sector moves away from Microsoft are real and growing: Denmark plans to phase out Windows and Office 365 by November 2025 and Schleswig‑Holstein (Germany) is phasing out Microsoft prog...
ICE is actively pursuing expanded social-media and location-data surveillance through contracts, pilot programs and commercial vendors; reporting shows contracts and solicitations for tools like Babel...
Available sources do not identify anyone named “Cosmic” as a person or entity within the XMPP community; search results instead show the XMPP Standards Foundation’s newsletters, summit pages and relat...