Online Privacy

Brave’s Container Tabs: What They Are and How to Use Them A quiet but useful feature has landed in Brave: container tabs. If you’ve used Firefox’s Multi-Account Containers extension, the idea will sound familiar. Brave now offers a similar capability built directly into the browser, with no extra add‑on needed. The feature isolates your browsing sessions so that cookies, site data, and storage from one container cannot leak into another. This matters for both privacy and day‑to‑day workflow, especially if you juggle multiple accounts or want to limit cross‑site tracking. ...

Meta Is Tracking Your Keystrokes for AI Training: How to Protect Your Privacy In early 2026, reports emerged that Meta had developed an internal tool capable of recording mouse movements and keystrokes from users interacting with its platforms. The data, according to the company, was intended to train its artificial intelligence models more effectively. But the move sparked immediate privacy concerns, even among Meta’s own employees, leading the company to quietly scale back the tool in June 2026. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and what you can do about it. ...

How Brave’s Browser Containers Can Improve Your Privacy and Workflow For anyone juggling multiple online accounts, keeping work and personal browsing separate is a common headache. You can use different browsers, but that gets messy. You can rely on private windows, but they don’t persist logins or cookies the way you need. Brave’s container feature – officially called “Playlists & Containers” in recent builds – offers a middle ground that isolates browsing sessions without forcing you to switch profiles or browsers. ...

Apple’s Hide My Email Bug Exposes Your Real Address: What to Do Now A year‑old bug in Apple’s Hide My Email feature may leak your actual email address when you forward messages. Here’s what the problem is, how to check if you’re affected, and what you can do to protect your privacy until Apple issues a fix. ...

X’s New Privacy Risks: What Changed and How to Protect Your Account A coalition of privacy advocacy groups has filed a formal warning with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about changes at X (formerly Twitter) that they say pose a “serious risk to Americans’ privacy.” The warning, reported by Ars Technica, follows a series of policy and feature updates under the platform’s current ownership. While the FTC has not yet announced an investigation, the filing puts the agency on notice—and gives millions of X users reason to review their account settings right now. ...

Stop Your Browser From Spying on You: 5 Settings to Change Now Your browser is the window to the internet, but it’s also a window into you. Every site you visit, every search you type, and even how long you hover over a link can be logged, analyzed, and sold. A recent article from PCWorld highlighted how browsers have become increasingly nosy, quietly collecting data that most people never realize is being shared. The good news is you don’t need to be a tech expert to lock things down. Here are five settings you can change right now—in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, or most other modern browsers—to significantly reduce how much data your browser leaks. ...

Fraud EDU: How to Avoid Social Media Scams and Digital Party Traps in 2026 If you use social media regularly, you have probably noticed that the scams have gotten harder to spot. In 2026, fraudsters are no longer just sending clumsy phishing emails or posting fake giveaway links. They are using AI-generated videos that look and sound like people you trust, and they are baiting users with realistic invitations to events that don’t exist. ...

Your Browser Knows More Than It Should: Five Privacy Settings Worth Changing If you’ve ever searched for a product and then seen ads for it everywhere, you’ve experienced how much your browser shares about you. By default, most browsers collect quite a bit of data—your location, the sites you visit, your device information, and even what you click on. This isn’t necessarily malicious, but it does mean that advertisers, analytics companies, and sometimes your own browser vendor can build a detailed profile of your online behavior. ...

How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of AI: Practical Steps for Everyday Users ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini—these tools have become part of daily life for millions. They can draft an email, summarise a meeting, or help write code in seconds. But every time you type a prompt, you are sending data to a company’s servers. That data may be used to train future models, stored for months, or even shared with third parties. ...

How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age: Practical Steps for Everyday Consumers If you’ve used a chatbot, a smart speaker, or a generative AI app recently, you’ve traded some personal data for convenience. That trade-off is becoming harder to ignore. The Wall Street Journal’s recent article How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age (published June 23, 2026) lays out the growing tension between the usefulness of AI tools and the amount of personal information they collect. The piece follows related coverage like What AI Can’t—or Shouldn’t—Do for You and The Job Interview Is Broken, signaling that privacy risks from AI are now a mainstream concern. ...