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Want to view Instagram Stories anonymously? Here are 5 methods that actually work, from the half-swipe trick to burner accounts, plus the risks of each.

A third of UK children have bypassed Online Safety Act age checks using fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and drawn-on moustaches.

Meta is building 32 AI data centers worldwide, including Hyperion and Prometheus, gigawatt-scale campuses powered by your scraped Facebook posts.

iOS 26 surfaced years of deleted messages for thousands of iPhone users, and a separate flaw let the FBI recover deleted Signal messages.

Slack uses your messages and files to train its AI models and you were opted in by default. Here's exactly how to opt out in under 5 minutes.

Scale AI, 49% owned by Meta, employed tens of thousands of gig workers to harvest personal social media data, copyrighted images, and explicit audio to train AI.

A Los Angeles jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in designing addictive platforms that harmed a young user.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the agency purchases Americans' data from data brokers without a warrant.

Aura's 2026 breach exposed 900,000 records from a forgotten server-side database. Learn why privacy tools that store your data create the very risk they claim to solve, and why local-first deletion is the answer.

Meta is removing end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs on May 8, 2026. Here is what the change means for your privacy.

The App Store Accountability Act would require age verification for every app download in the US and what it means for your data

Meta's smart glasses have been sending footage from inside users' homes to human reviewers in Kenya. Here's what happened and what Meta has said.

Discord's CTO admits the company "missed the mark." The global age verification rollout is delayed to H2 2026, Persona is dropped, but behavioral profiling remains.

DHS has issued hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, Reddit, and Discord to identify anonymous users discussing ICE. Here’s what it means for your privacy.

Discord quietly tested Persona for UK age verification despite promoting k-ID. Here's what the experiment reveals about Discord's vendor ecosystem and your data.

Discord users are mass-deleting their message history following the platform's controversial age verification announcement. Here's what our data shows - and why it matters.

Four months after 70,000 IDs leaked, Discord announced a global age-verification rollout, then quickly walked it back to a minority of users, with AI-powered behavioral profiling filling the gap. Learn what it means for your privacy.

Discord is rolling out teen-by-default settings globally in March 2026, requiring face scans or ID checks for full access. Here's what it means for your privacy, and why the October 2025 breach makes this complicated.