The Hallway Track

privacy

17 tracked signals on privacy.

Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS

Apple · Apple Developer News · Oct 02, 2026

Apple is restricting Full Disk Access in macOS, citing rising risks from autonomous AI agents

“As AI agents become increasingly capable and autonomous, the risks associated with this level of access will grow substantially.”
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses

Mark Zuckerberg · Meta Engineering · Sep 24, 2026

Meta extends Private Processing confidential computing to AI glasses so even Meta can't access user data.

“It extends the trust boundary of AI glasses directly into cloud data centers, executing AI models inside confidential virtual machines (CVMs) such that even Meta cannot access your data.”
WWDC26: Meet Trust Insights | Apple

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 08, 2026

Apple introduces Trust Insights in iOS 27, a privacy-preserving framework to detect coerced user actions from social engineering scams.

“Authentication confirms who, but not whether they're acting freely.”
FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service

Simon Willison · May 22, 2026

FTC fines Cox Media Group $1M for falsely claiming AI 'active listening' ad targeting used voice data

“this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers' conversations or use voice data at all—nor did the service accurately place ads in customers' desired locations. Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers.”
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine’s Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph

Sequoia Capital · Sep 01, 2026

Peregrine is building city-safety AI while explicitly rejecting surveillance-state approaches.

“Paragrin is building AI that protects cities and communities and they are rejecting the surveillance state while doing that.”
Build local AI agents on Mac with MLX

Apple Developer (WWDC) · Jun 09, 2026

MLX on Apple Silicon runs the entire agentic AI loop locally on a Mac, with M5 neural accelerators making prompt processing up to 4x faster.

“What if your AI agent never needed the internet?”
Coding and Personal Agents with Ollama | LIVE145

Microsoft Developer (Build) · Jun 04, 2026

Ollama is launching a privacy-centered cloud service so developers can run open models locally or in the cloud, with agents now its top use case.

“For Ollama, it's the easiest way for developers to get up and running with models, open models specifically, um, on locally and now in the cloud.”
End-to-end encrypted ML inference with Amazon SageMaker AI and FHE

AWS Machine Learning Blog · Jun 08, 2026

AWS shows how to run end-to-end encrypted ML inference on SageMaker using fully homomorphic encryption via concrete-ml.

“What if you could run ML inference in the cloud while hiding your data from the cloud itself?”