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.
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 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.
Data misuse the one thing that unites privacy nerds. And second amendment folks OpenAI's. Sam Altman says we should be excited 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 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. I'm Cameron Ivey and this was Privacy, Please News. See you next time, unless I've been algorithmically shadow banned for sarcasm.