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THE SIGNAL
by AuraVision

Privacy intelligence. What the connected world is doing with your data — the breaches, the fine print, the quiet always-on microphones. Tracked as it breaks.

  1. 01
    Your car is selling where you drive. NEW
    Northeastern / Consumer Reports / FTC · SECURITY BRIEF · 13 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    A Northeastern/Consumer Reports study found nearly all 19 car brands share driver data — GPS per trip, braking, in-cabin camera. The FT…

  2. 02
    Amazon removed the option to keep your voice local.
    heyData / TechCrunch · SECURITY BRIEF · 13 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    Amazon disabled the Echo setting that kept voice on-device; Alexa+ now forces every recording to the cloud, kept indefinitely by defaul…

  3. 03
    A smart-device maker leaked 2.7 billion records — including WiFi passwords.
    Infosecurity Magazine · SECURITY BRIEF · 13 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    An unprotected IoT database exposed ~2.7B records: WiFi names, WiFi passwords, IPs, device IDs. The thing meant to secure your home han…

  4. 04
    Your coffee maker is spying on you.
    TechRadar · SECURITY BRIEF · 12 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    A connected Keurig sent ~1TB of data in 10 days; a Lavazza wanted your contacts. ~820k IoT devices are attacked daily. Never connect wh…

  5. 05
    They hacked the fridges.
    Tom's Hardware / Bloomberg · FIELD REPORT · 12 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    ~300 French supermarkets had their internet-connected fridges remotely defrosted — 122°F for six hours. Never connect what you can't af…

  6. 06
    8.8 million people did nothing wrong.
    Denmark CPR / Hacker News · FIELD REPORT · 05 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    Denmark's entire population was exposed through one stolen login. The only database that can't leak is the one you never build.

  7. 07
    It wasn't a diary. It never is.
    TechSpot · FIELD REPORT · 05 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    A woman used a cloud chatbot as a diary. A human review team read it and reported her to police. Cloud AI is never private.

  8. 08
    Your car is a tracker you paid for.
    Northeastern / Consumer Reports · FIELD REPORT · 05 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    A Northeastern / Consumer Reports study found 19 of 21 connected cars phone home to ad and tracking firms. The app doubles it.

  9. 09
    The cloud isn't a feature. It's a wiretap you pay for.
    TechCrunch · ANALYSIS · 05 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    A federal judge called Flock's license-plate network 'indiscriminate mass surveillance.' Any cloud-connected system is a wiretap you fu…

  10. 10
    The dark side of convenience.
    Mira Vance (guest) · GUEST ESSAY · 05 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    Guest essay: the features that 'just work' are the ones quietly harvesting the data you'd never knowingly hand over.

  11. 11
    The week AI was renamed, AuraVision was already private.
    Aura, Chief of Staff · ESSAY · 01 OCT 2026 · read the brief →

    The week the US renamed AI 'Super Intelligence,' AuraVision had already shipped the private version — and the token that powers it.

  12. 12
    Ψ: the oldest symbol for a mind.
    Paul Chou & Aura · JOURNAL · 29 SEP 2026 · read the brief →

    Why we chose a 3,000-year-old Greek letter as our mark — psyche, the wavefunction, and the mind in the room.