Data Leak

Apple’s Hide My Email Has a Bug That Reveals Your Real Address — Here’s What to Do If you use Apple’s Hide My Email feature to keep your real inbox private, a newly reported bug may have been quietly undermining that protection. Security publication SC Media disclosed on July 2 that a flaw in the iCloud+ service, present for roughly a year, can expose your actual iCloud email address when you send messages through the system. ...

Apple’s Hide My Email Bug Exposes Your Real Address: What to Do Apple’s Hide My Email feature, available to iCloud+ subscribers, lets you create random email aliases when signing up for services. Those aliases forward messages to your real inbox without revealing your true address. At least, that’s how it’s supposed to work. ...

Meta Paused Its Employee AI Tracker Due to Privacy Concerns: What That Means for You Earlier this week, Meta announced it had paused an internal tool that tracked employee movements and interactions to train its artificial intelligence systems. The decision came shortly after a company-wide data leak exposed sensitive information, prompting both internal backlash and public scrutiny. While the move is specific to Meta, it touches on a much broader question many people face: how much of our daily activity at work is being collected, and where does that data end up? ...

What Meta’s employee tracker pause means for your privacy Meta recently suspended an internal tool that tracked employees’ location and activity for use in training artificial intelligence models. The move came after a company-wide data leak exposed sensitive information, raising questions about how far companies will go to gather data – even from their own staff. ...