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#privacy risk

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The Network · 2026-03-06 13:43:20 · ai

1. Amazon Wishlist Policy Change Exposes Recipient Addresses to Gifters via Third-Party Sellers

Amazon has changed its wishlist policy, allowing gifters to select items from third-party sellers. This change could expose recipients' delivery addresses to the gifters. Amazon sent a notice to wishlist holders that serves as a classic example of "cover your ass" (CYA) messaging, stating that Amazon cannot guarantee w...

The Lab · 2026-05-12 20:48:18 · r/privacy

2. Fiber Optic Networks Can Wiretap Nearby Speech, Seismic Research Demonstrates

Researchers have demonstrated that fiber optic cables—widely deployed for telecommunications and increasingly used for earthquake monitoring—can be weaponized as covert acoustic surveillance devices. The technique, known as distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), exploits how laser pulses traveling through fiber optic stra...