Worried about prying eyes at the coffee shop? EyesOff uses your Mac’s webcam to detect when someone’s watching your screen and can alert you, hide your work, or lock your Mac.

The FBI extracted Signal messages from an iPhone by exploiting a notification database flaw. Apple has now released iOS 18.7.8 and iOS 26.4.2 to fix a bug that allowed deleted notifications to persist on devices.

Anthropic is prompting Claude users to opt into having their conversations used for training future models. While the immediate privacy risks seem low, the long-term implications of AI training data remain unclear, suggesting a cautious approach.

Adam Engst explains how to determine whether any apps on your iPhone may have been unintentionally sharing your location with data brokers by relying on ads from the real-time bidding ecosystem.

Upcoming changes from Apple will give parents greater control over what children with Child Accounts in a Family Sharing group can access while reducing the potential for disclosure of kids’ birthdates or other private data to developers. The company is trying to balance child safety, parental control, and new government age-verification requirements. 

If you want to ensure that someone using your iPhone can’t peek into private apps, read on to learn about a new feature in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 that lets you require Face ID or Touch ID authentication before the app opens.

On the Chit Chat Across the Pond podcast, Adam Engst and Allison Sheridan explore how a company called Babel Street can track the location of millions of people and how you can keep yourself from ending up in their data set.

Recent revelations of unauthorized location tracking by Babel Street expose privacy vulnerabilities for iPhone users. Adam Engst offers actionable strategies to reduce the likelihood of having your privacy violated by data brokers.

404 Media, KrebsOnSecurity, and other outlets are covering the exposure of Locate X, a tool that grants extensive access to smartphone location data. In the absence of strong legislation, Apple and Google need to do more to protect users.

A pair of Harvard students have developed smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology that can automatically identify individuals. While this may sound appealing to some, the potential for misuse is concerning, and comprehensive privacy regulation might be our best hope for curbing associated privacy abuses.

Apple Intelligence, backed by the company’s Private Cloud Compute service, takes a new approach to generative AI which prioritizes user security, privacy, and safety. Cloud computing expert and TidBITS security editor Rich Mogull explains how this works, starting with the chips in our iPhones.

Apple devoted a large part of its WWDC keynote to Apple Intelligence, a collection of new AI-driven features that it plans to introduce throughout the next year in iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 Sequoia. 

Airbnb’s policy change to ban all indoor cameras at listed properties highlights the scourge of tiny cameras used for snooping. Here’s how to discover if you’re being watched in a rental, hotel, or elsewhere.

University of Maryland security researchers used a clever approach to querying Apple’s location API to determine the locations of more than two billion Wi-Fi access points worldwide. You can opt out.