More Moxie in the IT Privacy and Security Weekly Update for the week ending January 13th., 2026

EP 274.  In this week’s update:Moxie Marlinspike, architect of Signal’s groundbreaking privacy standards, now brings his uncompromising approach to secure, user-controlled artificial intelligence with the launch of Confer.The fifth annual Worst in Show anti-awards returned to CES 2026, shining a harsh spotlight on the year’s most wasteful, invasive, and counterproductive consumer electronics.Wegmans has quietly expanded biometric surveillance in its New York City stores, collecting facial, iris, and voice data from every shopper under the stated goal of safety and security.California’s new DROP law marks a major victory for consumer privacy, empowering residents to delete their personal information from hundreds of data brokers with a single request.Google faces intense backlash after directly notifying 13-year-olds that they can unilaterally remove parental supervision from their accounts, raising serious concerns about child safety and parental authority.Chinese state-sponsored hackers, operating under the long-running Salt Typhoon campaign, have compromised email accounts of staff on multiple powerful U.S. House committees.Anthropic has committed $1.5 million over two years to the Python Software Foundation, targeting major security improvements to CPython and PyPI to protect millions of developers and users.Neuromorphic computers, designed to emulate the human brain’s architecture, have demonstrated remarkable efficiency and accuracy in solving complex partial differential equations, challenging conventional assumptions about their capabilities.Let's go get the moxie.Find this week's full transcript here.