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Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/googles-privacy-sandbox-is-officially-dead/

Google’s Privacy Sandbox Is Officially Dead
The elimination of many remaining Privacy Sandbox APIs come six months after third-party cookies got a reprieve in Chrome.

Forget What's Sensitive, Remember What Matters: Token-Level Differential Privacy in Memory Sculpting for Continual Learning
Bihao Zhan, Jie Zhou, Junsong Li, Yutao Yang, Shilian Chen, Qianjun Pan, Xin Li, Wen Wu, Xingjiao Wu, Qin Chen, Hang Yan, Liang He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12958

Forget What's Sensitive, Remember What Matters: Token-Level Differential Privacy in Memory Sculpting for Continual Learning
Continual Learning (CL) models, while adept at sequential knowledge acquisition, face significant and often overlooked privacy challenges due to accumulating diverse information. Traditional privacy methods, like a uniform Differential Privacy (DP) budget, indiscriminately protect all data, leading to substantial model utility degradation and hindering CL deployment in privacy-sensitive areas. To overcome this, we propose a privacy-enhanced continual learning (PeCL) framework that forgets what'…

Approvata la legge italiana sull’IA, Bolognini (IIP): “Soddisfazione, confermata la proposta IIP”
https://www.istitutoitalianoprivacy.it/2025/09/17/approvata-la-legge-italiana-sullia-bolognini-iip-sod…

🛫 Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
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Retelling near-death experiences helps aviators find meaning and purpose at work
When aviators face a close brush with death, their harrowing experiences often become stories—told again and again in break rooms, over beers or in quiet conversations with trusted colleagues. But what effect do these stories have on the people telling them? Can the act of storytelling itself help them make sense of their work—and even find deeper meaning in it?

Sad to see Trump Tariffs kill off a US-based small business that offers a unique product that works perfectly but will no longer be available because it’s now too costly to produce: the Starling Home hub that magically made your Google Nest devices play friendly with Apple Home and HomeKit. Will remain supported but no longer available for purchase because of tariffs. https://…

AI For Privacy in Smart Homes: Exploring How Leveraging AI-Powered Smart Devices Enhances Privacy Protection
Wael Albayaydh, Ivan Flechais, Rui Zhao, Jood Albayaydh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14050

AI For Privacy in Smart Homes: Exploring How Leveraging AI-Powered Smart Devices Enhances Privacy Protection
Privacy concerns and fears of unauthorized access in smart home devices often stem from misunderstandings about how data is collected, used, and protected. This study explores how AI-powered tools can offer innovative privacy protections through clear, personalized, and contextual support to users. Through 23 in-depth interviews with users, AI developers, designers, and regulators, and using Grounded Theory analysis, we identified two key themes: Aspirations for AI-Enhanced Privacy - how users …

An interview with Chris Gilliard on his new book Luxury Surveillance, how smart wearables could normalize pervasive surveillance, X's political shift, and more (Anika Collier Navaroli/The Tech Policy Press Podcast)
https://techpolicy.press/through-to-th

Through to Thriving: Protecting Our Privacy with Chris Gilliard | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli in conversation with Critical Internet Studies Institute privacy researcher and advocate Chris Gilliard.

WhatsApp updates its Business API terms to ban general-purpose chatbots starting January 15, 2026, affecting WhatsApp assistants of OpenAI, Perplexity, others (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/whatssapp-…

WhatssApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
WhatsApp is banning general purpose chatbots from using its Business API