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WhatsApp's Hidden Notes Told AI Not to Recommend a Regulator

Redact found hidden text on 80 of WhatsApp's 545 help pages instructing its support chatbot, including orders not to recommend data protection regulators to locked-out users and not to cite GDPR once a lawyer is mentioned, compares them with WhatsApp's privacy policy, and explains how to verify via the Internet Archive.

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Google's selfie video sign-in puts your face on its servers

Proton's Elena Constantinescu examines Google's new selfie video account recovery, which stores a multi-angle reference video of your face on Google's servers, and what that could mean for AI training, US government data requests and age checks, compares Facebook's video selfie checks and lists recovery options that avoid it.

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