A Withings community member says new Withings accounts created after October 13, 2026 must subscribe to Withings+ at $99.99 per year to export data to Apple Health. The member says Withings customer support described Apple Health synchronization as a standard feature that does not require a subscription, while also stating that accounts created after that date would be asked to subscribe to Withings+ to export data. According to the customer, support cited new privacy measures and an AI connector as reasons for the subscription requirement. The customer argues that writing data to Apple Health through Apple’s HealthKit occurs locally on a phone and does not require cloud-computing resources or an AI connector. They note that users can still manually export CSV files, but contend that manual exports are not an adequate substitute for automatic synchronization. The customer characterizes the change as an anti-consumer paywall on access to users’ health data and calls on Withings to reverse it.

License plate reader searches of historically cached data should require a warrant, as determined by a judge in the case Schmidt v City of Norfolk. This ruling emphasizes the need for reasonable use of technology by police departments.

99% of traffic on the PatronView website consists of bots. The site owner has implemented various firewall rules to combat scrapers and has shared insights from a year of battling automated traffic.

Big tech companies like Google and Facebook create predictive profiles of users and sell this data to advertisers, influencing individual behavior for commercial and political purposes. Surveillance capitalism reshapes society without public awareness or consent.

Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest contribute to the expansion of the U.S. surveillance state, which has become more pervasive since the revelations from Edward Snowden. Recent events illustrate the increasing integration of surveillance technologies in everyday life.

Discord is implementing mandatory age verification for its users. This decision comes in the wake of concerns regarding privacy and data security, particularly following a recent data breach.