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Welcome to Privacy Please News

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Welcome to Privacy Please News I'm your host , Cameron Ivey where your data is definitely safe unless someone wants to use it , sell it , hack it or dress it up in a trench coat and parade it through Congress . First up , Alphabet CEO Sundar says sharing Google's search data would be like ripping out the company's brain and handing it to Bing . Search data would be like ripping out the company's brain and handing it to Bing . The doge wants Google to stop making exclusive deals and maybe even split off Chrome . Sundar called this extraordinary . We call it Tuesday in big tech drama .

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Next up , WhatsApp rolled out an AI feature that promises to keep your messages safe or private by sending them to the cloud . Meta insists it's safe , but critics say it's like whispering secrets to your friends across a crowded room . Sure , technically it's private , but everyone's still listening . Gun rights group Gun Owners for Safety

Google's Search Data Drama

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is mad , Not about gun control , but because someone used their underwear sizes for politics . Literally , the gun industry shared customer data to help campaigns .

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Data misuse the one thing that unites privacy nerds . And second amendment folks OpenAI's . Sam Altman says we should be excited

WhatsApp's Questionable "Private" AI

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to scan our eyeballs for WorldC , Because biometric identity is the future and regulators just need to catch up . You know nothing says , trust me , like a globe-spinning iris collecting startup founded by a guy who builds artificial minds . Right and finally , state-sponsored hackers

Gun Owners' Data Misuse Scandal

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are dominating the zero-day game Led by China and North Korea . Honestly , if you're not being spied on by at least one nation state , are dominating the zero-day game Led by China and North Korea . Honestly , if you're not being spied on by at least one nation state , are you even online ? I mean , come on . Well , that's all , folks , for your privacy news chaos for the week . Remember , if your data's not leaking , you're probably offline .

Eyeball Scanning and Zero-Day Hackers

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I'm Cameron Ivey and this was Privacy , Please News . See you next time , unless I've been algorithmically shadow banned for sarcasm .