Data Privacy

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

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.

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.

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.

iOS 26.3's "Limit Precise Location" feature reduces carrier tracking, but only works on Boost Mobile in the U.S. Learn why AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile don't support Apple's privacy feature, and what it means for your location data.

Old Instagram posts can resurface and damage your career or education opportunities. Learn why cleaning up your Instagram matters and how Redact can protect your digital footprint.

Nebraska has passed a new social media law affecting teens, privacy, and age verification. Learn why critics warn it could spread nationwide.

Learn how to delete your Redact.dev account, permanently.