Fingerprints. The AI, Privacy, and Security Weekly Update for the week ending August 18th. , 2026.
EP 305. In this week's update: Anthropic is adding invisible watermarks to everything Claude writes-and you won't know it's there until someone looks for it. China is racing to the Moon by 2030, and the real competition isn't about flags; it's about water. Meta's AI glasses are so good at recording people without their knowledge that Germany is treating them like a crime. Your WiFi router can identify who you are without a camera, a sensor, or your phone-just by watching the signals bounce around your apartment. The Royal Navy's drones were quietly sending heartbeat signals to an IP address in China for who knows how long. France just blocked its own law to ban kids under 15 from social media because the privacy cost was too high. Your cloud storage provider can disappear tomorrow and take 50 terabytes of your data with them-and you can't do a thing about it. Stripe just bought a gateway that lets developers switch between AI models like they're che...
