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.

Claude can inadvertently leak personal information, including full names, employers, and answers to security questions, during conversations. A demonstration revealed that sensitive data was sent to an attacker without any alerts or warnings.

Samsung requires users to consent to the use of their health data for AI training or risk permanent deletion of that data. A new toggle in the Samsung Health app allows the company to use personal health metrics for training and algorithm refinement.

@XBToshi Okay, grok has uploaded my entire user directory to xAI's servers. It contains my SSH keys, my password manager database, my documents, photos, videos, everything... https://t.co/s8eSs9DGzF

The European Parliament voted 331 to 304 to reactivate the "Chat Control" initiative, allowing for indiscriminate scanning of chat messages. This decision came through a procedural motion introduced by Parliament President Roberta Metsola.

Meta has paused an internal AI training program after sensitive employee data, including private conversations and performance metrics, was leaked across the company. The incident has been classified as a SEV 2, and Meta is currently investigating the breach.

every public Notion page is leaking the email addresses of everyone who edited it. zero authentication. no cookies. no tokens. one POST request returns full names, emails, and profile photos for every editor on the page. your company wiki is public? every employee's email is

In April 2025, Google complied with an ICE subpoena and provided Amandla Thomas-Johnson's data without notifying him, violating a previous promise to inform users before sharing their information with law enforcement. Thomas-Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate, had attended a pro-Palestinian protest in September 2024, which led to the data request.

BrowserStack has been found to be leaking users' email addresses. A user discovered the leak after signing up for their Open Source program and subsequently receiving unsolicited emails.