50 major US retailers sent 42B marketing emails in 28 days. 80% used tracking pixels to monitor clicks, devices, and location. Proton Mail calls the tactics "an engineered assault on privacy." A new ...

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A dataset of 2 billion email addresses and 1.3 billion passwords have been discovered online — leaving millions of people vulnerable to account takeovers. The dataset, compiled by security ...

Google denies charges that it's analyzing your private emails to train its AIs. A class action lawsuit accuses Google of privacy violations. You may still want to opt out of the features in question.

If you are waiting for the infamous Epstein files to be released, then here's a treat for you: a team has created a new website that mimics a pseudo Gmail page where you are logged in as Jeffrey ...

Mr. Giridharadas is the author of “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World” and the publisher of the newsletter The.Ink. As journalists comb through the Epstein emails, surfacing the ...

Connecting the dots: Gmail users who are concerned about how Google handles their data should look for the toggles for smart features in the settings menu. The fine print states that the AI ...

Are you curious about the recently released emails of Jeffrey Epstein but don’t feel like clicking through thousands of cumbersome files? There’s now a way to search Epstein’s inbox in a much easier ...

While Google disagrees, the company may have decided again that your data is its toy. Here's how to try to stop Gmail from training its AI on your email. There's no shortage of big tech companies that ...

Last week, for whatever reason, the Republican Party buried the American public in an avalanche of emails from Jeffrey Epstein. Presumably assuming that the info dump would keep conspiracy theorists ...

In November 2025, a rumor circulated that Google's latest update had automatically opted in all users to allow its generative artificial intelligence (AI) program to train on private communications ...

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