Choosing Local Voice Assistants: Privacy Over Convenience
Google Home and Alexa+ pushed me to abandon cloud voice assistants
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Google Home and Alexa+ pushed me to abandon cloud voice assistants
It's a big year for America. It's the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectators at these events - and the millions of people who live in the cities hosting them - may not realize that they, too, are being watched. From Kansas
A government customer of NSO Group used the company's Pegasus spyware to hack into the phone of a European politician, who at the time was serving on an EU committee tasked with investigating the spyware industry.
Meta’s latest WhatsApp feature has landed in a classic catch-22 situation. The company wants to enhance user privacy on the…
“Sign in with Google” and “Continue with Apple” have carried federated login for more than a decade. They strip away The post Your social login buttons run on third-party cookies. FedCM doesn’t. appeared first on The New Stack.
Earlier this week, Meta-owned WhatsApp introduced the username feature, allowing its users to communicate with each other without sharing their phone numbers. The feature will roll out later this year, but WhatsApp is already allowing users to reserve their usernames. The username feature raised sec
Privacy-focused artificial intelligence company Venice.ai Inc. today revealed that it has raised $65 million in new funding that values the startup at $1 billion. Venice pitches itself as a private and unrestricted alternative to mainstream chatbots such as ChatGPT. It was founded in 2024 by Erik Vo
Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.
Meta's WhatsApp is launching usernames for privacy, enabling users to interact without disclosing phone numbers. While this can protect user identity, experts warn of risks like impersonation and scams, highlighting the necessity for robust anti-abuse measures to ensure safety amid these changes.
The feature, expected to roll out later this year, will allow users to connect using usernames instead of sharing their phone numbers. While experts say this reduces exposure of personal phone numbers and lowers risks such as SIM-swapping and contact scraping, they warn that the move also raises fre
The Supreme Court rendered a decision this morning on a case debating whether or not people have an “expectation of privacy” from their government, even with always-available location tracking enabled on practically everyone’s smartphone, and to my pleasant surprise, the ruling actually fell in the
WhatsApp is finally allowing users to reserve usernames, a privacy feature that lets them hide their phone numbers from people not in their contact list. [...]
WhatsApp, which says it has more than 3 billion users globally, has until now allowed users to be contacted by anyone who has their phone number.
10 years from now, you're going to regret not parking that username.
The app said it has started allowing users to reserve unique usernames, which can be used to contact WhatsApp users when the feature is launched later this year.
An optional ‘username key’ adds another layer by requiring a secondary credential before someone can message users. The post WhatsApp Rolling Out Username Feature to Bolster Phone Number Privacy appeared first on SecurityWeek.
WhatsApp on Monday officially announced the start of global reservations of usernames with an aim to protect the privacy of more than three billion users on the messaging platform. The optional feature is designed to help users connect with someone on the service through usernames, as opposed to dir
WhatsApp is launching usernames later this year, but you can reserve yours starting this week.
You can reserve the username you want to use before the feature starts rolling out later this year. | Image: Meta / WhatsApp WhatsApp is introducing a new way to add and chat with contacts, without having to share your phone number. Usernames will be launching "later this year," in a move to make th
This Frigate server monitors my home and, unlike cloud-based alternatives, protects my privacy