The WhatsApp Lawsuit and a Tangent on What's Technically Possible
A class-action lawsuit claims Meta can access WhatsApp messages. I don’t know if it’s true. But the lawsuit gave me a reason to revisit a technical capability I’ve been writing about.
On-Device ML
On-Device LLMs & Your Encrypted Data: The Profiling Risk Amplified
Companies can already mine your non-encrypted data on their servers. It’s your end-to-end encrypted data that was supposed to be untouchable. On-device ML first changed that, turning your own phone into the profiling engine that encryption was meant to prevent. On-device LLMs now take that to another level.
Encrypted, But Not Invisible: How Apps Could Use On-Device ML to Profile You
End-to-end encryption isn’t enough. Learn how on-device machine learning models can silently profile you—and how to fight back.