Privacy
We track 21 posts about Privacy from 14 engineering blogs. Most active: Cloudflare, Stack Overflow, Mozilla Hacks. Latest post: Nov 6, 2026.
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The post-quantum future of web privacy (opens on the source site)
Cryptographic protocols like Privacy Pass help keep web sites safe from abuse while keeping their users private. This post looks at the quantum threat to these protocols, and some new post-quantum cryptography that may help close the gap.
Agents aren’t humans (but they kinda are) (opens on the source site)
AI agents act for millions, but servers see intermediaries that strip user visibility. This post defines the problem space and introduces a collaborative approach to safely identifying, allowing, and managing this automated traffic.
From Google Drive to Syncthing over Tailscale (opens on the source site)
I used Dropbox for decades, then switched to Google Drive. Both worked for most of my files. One file never fit, though: my KeePass password database. It’s the file I need on every device and the file I want to keep private the most. After one annoyance too many, I moved it to Syncthing over Tailscale. The rest stays on Google Drive, for now. This post describes why and how. The file that made me care My password manager is KeePass-based.
PrivacyLib: Privacy Controls at the Data Access Boundary (opens on the source site)
Facebook ·
This latest deep dive into Meta’s Privacy Aware Infrastructure (PAI) takes a look at PrivacyLib. A privacy requirement must hold as data moves through Meta’s diverse data and processing systems. Historically, supporting a new requirement meant implementing the same enforcement logic separately in each system. PrivacyLib replaces this with a common library that runs inside [...] Read More... The post PrivacyLib: Privacy Controls at the Data Access Boundary appeared first on Engineering at Meta.
Localizing compliance at scale: achieving South Korea’s ISMS certification (opens on the source site)
Cloudflare has achieved South Korea's ISMS certification following an audit across 80 controls. Learn how we localized user consent flows, adapted social sign-up paths at the edge, and validated our global security program.
How Instagram Knew You Wanted a Tent (opens on the source site)
Have you ever wondered how targeted ads end up in your Instagram feed? You might look at a tent on some outdoor retailer’s site once, and the next day your feed is Reels about campsites and an ad for that same tent. You never searched for camping on Instagram, so why is it all over […] The post How Instagram Knew You Wanted a Tent appeared first on Atomic Spin.
“Impossible to Hide Secret …”: Uncovering Security and Privacy Issues in LLM-Native IDEs (opens on the source site)
Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26390 LLM-native IDEs (LIDEs) increasingly allow AI agents to read repositories, execute commands, and modify code, introducing significant security and privacy risks. Developers regularly report incidents on Reddit involving leaked API secrets, unauthorized access to system files, and file deletion on live servers. In one case, despite configuring both .gitignore and .copilotignore to exclude a secrets file, Copilot read and attempted to modify it while debugging a database connection issue, exposing live API keys and credentials. This study…
Announcing Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway – expanding access to Cloudflare’s privacy-preserving infrastructure (opens on the source site)
We’re announcing the closed beta of a self-serve Cloudflare OHTTP Gateway. We’re also renaming our Privacy Gateway to Cloudflare OHTTP Relay to better distinguish the two products.
From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents (opens on the source site)
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the platform (including our new ChatGPT plugin), and how we're continuing to build Stack Overflow.
From better privacy to our new ChatGPT plugin, here's what's new on Stack Overflow for Agents (opens on the source site)
We've learned a lot in the last three months since launching Stack Overflow for Agents, our API-first knowledge exchange for agents. Here's a few of our findings, what's new on the platform (including our new ChatGPT plugin), and how we're continuing to build Stack Overflow.
Predicting Health Plan Member Behavior with Neural Networks: Building a Privacy-First Pipeline for Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA Data (opens on the source site)
null Continue reading Predicting Health Plan Member Behavior with Neural Networks: Building a Privacy-First Pipeline for Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA Data on SitePoint.
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymize (opens on the source site)
Airbnb ·
Project Lighthouse — Part 3: Introducing project-lighthouse-anonymizeThe data in Project Lighthouse is powered by privacy-preserving anonymization code. We’ve put this code into open source, and published two new technical papers detailing the scalable algorithms and data quality frameworks behind it.By: Adam BloomstonIntroductionIn 2020, we launched Project Lighthouse, which we developed in partnership with leading civil rights and privacy organizations. As our 2020 announcement details, Project Lighthouse enables us to measure potential disparities in user experiences. This work uses…
PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web (opens on the source site)
This is the technical companion to our update on Distilled, “Keeping the web open and private in the bot era.” Here we take a deeper look at the problem space, the design we’re proposing, and the problems still left to solve. Bots (and privacy-preserving browsers) not welcome Browse a news site in a private window. Shop […] The post PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough (opens on the source site)
Yesterday Apple announced a big step towards deploying real AI in their Siri ecosystem. In most ways this is good and inevitable: Siri is one of the world’s most widely-used voice agents, and it would be good if it didn’t suck. The idea that Apple would boost its capabilities with frontier models wasn’t so much … Continue reading The future of Siri, or: why private inference isn’t private enough →
Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer (opens on the source site)
This post has been on my back burner for well over a year. This has bothered me, since with every month that goes by, I become more convinced that anonymous authentication the most important topic we could be talking about as cryptographers. This isn’t just because I love neat cryptography: it’s that I don’t trust … Continue reading Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer →
When AI Listens: Security and Privacy Challenges in Enterprise AI Voice Agents (opens on the source site)
Haptik ·
Voice has rapidly become the main interface between enterprises and their customers. AI voice agents now handle service requests, authentication, payments, and issue resolution at scale. In doing so, they move beyond responding, they actively listen, in real-time and at scale. When AI listens, the security and privacy stakes fundamentally change. The focus is no longer limited to protecting databases and dashboards, but extends to safeguarding live conversations, emotions, and intent. This shift requires enterprises to rethink traditional security and privacy approaches. In this blog, we…
CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox (opens on the source site)
Firefox is now the first and the only browser to deploy fast and comprehensive certificate revocation checking that does not reveal your browsing activity to anyone (not even to Mozilla). Tens of millions of TLS server certificates are issued each day to secure communications between browsers and websites. These certificates are the cornerstones of ubiquitous […] The post CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
Privacy for the newly appointed (and already exasperated) DPO (opens on the source site)
Latacora ·
Every other week, regulators around the world bombard their constituents with new data protection laws and acronyms. As the person who was just voluntold you’re now responsible for privacy at your startup, in addition to all your other duties and without any additional resources, how can you possibly be expected to keep up—let alone contextualize that information to maintain compliance? Privacy, at its core, is an ethical issue, which means the solution to your privacy challenges is deceptively simple: do the right thing and be transparent with your customers. That’s it. That’s what everyone…
Hacking Around Safari's 7-day Cookie Limit (opens on the source site)
Artsy ·
Amongst the many, many things that organizations have to contend with around cookie consent laws is Apple’s very own browser, Safari. Did you know that Safari will only retain a client-side cookie for 7 days? This is in support of Apple’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) feature, designed to protect a user’s privacy. These privacy efforts are great but, in hand with laws like GDPR and CCPA, their rollout often creates a UX nightmare for users without some extra care. Here at Artsy, we’ve landed on a way to make things slightly less bad and want to share our approach. Scenario: Imagine…
Privacy Policy (opens on the source site)
Privacy Notice This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for and applies solely to information collected by the following websites and apps (SERVICE): www.andrewcbancroft.com Ten Read Ten Said This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that we collect are used for providing and improving the Service. We will not…
Security Privacy & Trust: Major 2020 Themes (opens on the source site)
Security, Privacy and Trust will be major themes in 2020. Looking at this arm report, 30% of surveyed folks were more concerned in 2019 over data privacy and security than they were in 2018. Add the elections, legal actions against Google & Facebook, Apple and others pushing for less tracking and safer data and we are going to see a huge need to push compute power to the edge (on device).
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