Meta's AI Glasses Get Worse, Password Managers Have Risks, iOS Privacy, and more!
Our top stories this week:
- Meta wants to add facial recognition to their smart glasses
- Several password managers were not immune from server compromise
- New privacy features in iOS
- Reminders that AI is still a privacy nightmare
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Updates from the Team
Site Changes
We made a few changes to our recommendations this week.
- We removed Yattee (YouTube front end for iOS) because it appears to no longer work and has been removed from app stores.
- Removed Dataveria from the list of data broker sites as it appears to be defunct
- We also updated information about uBlock Origin Lite, the Bitlocker cmd workaround for Windows Home, the Firefox daily usage ping, and more behind-the-scenes work.
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Private Browsing
Our private browsing video is finally out! We explain the myth of "Incognito Mode," then go through each of the popular browsers and explain how they (don't) protect your privacy and finally recommend a few browsers that do! (It should be added to PeerTube soon!)
Smartphone Security Course: Intermediate
Our Smartphone Privacy & Security course's Intermediate videos are finally out to the public. Learn how to swap out the stock apps with more private alternatives - and in the case of Android, how to get apps more privately in general.
News
This week, Fria wrote about Google's upgrades to face unlock, Amazon's cancelled partnership with Flock, and Apple finally adding E2EE RCS in iOS 26.4 beta.
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Sources
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
Meta's already-problematic AI-powered Ray-Bans are now set to include facial recognition. It's worth noting that nothing has been set in stone yet. The New York Times article paints a picture of a company desperately trying to stand out from the competition and throwing out pretty much any idea they can think of, so it's unclear what final form this idea will take. It should be said though that Meta's internal memos did explicitly state that now is a perfect time to release a product like this, while civil rights groups who would normally oppose it are busy with everything else going on. The EFF has decided they are not too busy and put out a blog post about it.
Mario Trujillo
Popular password managers fall short of “zero-knowledge” claims
Researchers at ETH Zurich have conducted on audits on Bitwarden, LastPass, and Dashlane to see what information could be accessed if a malicious actor gained access to the servers. They were able to recover passwords and even tamper with vault data. These three password managers account for 23% of the market - or over 60 million users. Bitwarden and Dashlane have already responded and fixed most of the issues raised. LastPass said they've fixed some of the issues and plan to fix others in the future. 1Password pre-emptively published a blog post about how they were already mostly immune.
Alex Lekander
iOS News
iOS 26.3 has released with one especially exciting privacy-preserving feature: "Limit Precise Location" for cell towers. This essentially takes the existing "course vs precise location" toggles that Apple already allows for apps and applies it to cell towers, which should improve privacy of users. Meanwhile, in the upcoming iOS 26.4 beta we're already seeing the first signs of end-to-end encrypted RCS and Stolen Device Protection being enabled by default.
Ryan Christoffel
Juli Clover
AI News
This week we have more reminders that AI should - at best - be used carefully and does not respect training data. First up, Copilot had a bug that ignored enterprise security settings that would've forbid it from accessing sensitive data and thus allowed it to summarize confidential emails. Meanwhile, Grok was revealing a porn actress's legal name and birthdate without being prompted. It's a reminder that AI scrapes up data from everywhere, even if you didn't consent to it, and you lose control of that data once it happens.
Sergiu Gatlan
Noelle Perdue
Age Verification Reminders
Once again, countries continue to push forward with the overly-simplistic and flawed idea that age-gating the internet will solve problems. We still have nothing new to add to this discussion, but we believe we should continue to let people know whenever we hear about new developments so people can continue to fight back and spread awareness. This week Germany jumped on the bandwagon, and TechCrunch put out a list of countries who have so far expressed interest.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/gavin-newsom-backs-social-media-age-restrictions-00789951
Aisha Malik
Forum Updates
