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July 07, 2026 Tracked: The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the Week Ending July 7th., 2026
Episode 299 Discoveries in this week's update...
Microsoft's Windows has been quietly assigning every PC a persistent tracking ID that survives VPNs, new IP addresses, and most attempts to disappear - and a hacker just got arrested because of it.
Anthropic built a secret tracker inside its own developer tool to watch for Chinese users - and the company that made its name on responsible AI had to remove it after researchers found the hidden code.
The Supreme Court just handed every smartphone owner in America a constitutional privacy right they didn't know they had - and it changes what law…
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