Signal's president Meredith Whittaker cautions users that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are surveillance tools, not trusted companions.

Meta worked with Rank One Computing, a Pentagon-linked AI surveillance firm, to prototype facial recognition for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, raising major privacy and civil liberties concerns.

Meta removed unreleased NameTag face-recognition components from the Meta AI smart glasses app after WIRED scrutiny.

WIRED reports Meta added code for a NameTag face-recognition system in its Meta AI app tied to smart glasses.

Google introduces Private AI Compute, a new system allowing Gemini models to leverage cloud power while keeping user data encrypted and private, similar to Apple's approach.