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No Privacy, but the AI, Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the Week ending April 21st. 2026
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EP 288.
No privacy, but so much is going on that you might not notice for the next 20 minutes. We start with…
A senator who has been right before is raising alarms he cannot fully explain, and that pattern alone should command attention.
Traveling with a locked phone just became a legal liability in one of the world's most-visited financial hubs.
A hundred thousand users thought they were downloading videos; they were handing over their digital fingerprints.
That free app may be paying for itself in ways you never agreed to and will never see on a receipt.
North Korea's most prolific hacking group has refined its macOS playbook down to a single terminal command and a moment of misplaced trust.
A six-figure plugin acquisition quietly became an eight-month undetected supply chain attack hiding in plain sight.
The promise of building software in minutes is colliding with a harder truth: speed without security discipline is just a faster way to expose your users.
The same government arguing in court that an AI model is a national security threat is quietly using it to scan its own networks.
Let’s take a peek…