The FTC Wants to Police What AI Models Refuse to Say — and Privacy Advocates Want It Withdrawn
The FTC's proposed policy statement on the 'suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems' closed its comment period on July 31. Issued u...
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ICE Outsourced Finding People — 13 Private Firms, 50,000 Names a Month, and AI Doing the Looking
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued open-ended skip-tracing contracts to 13 private companies worth up to $1.2 billion over two years. Each...
Enforcement Arrives, Data Keeps Leaking: The Privacy Week of July 19–26, 2026
In eight days: California opened its first proactive privacy audit, nine states lost their grace periods, an AI agent breached Hugging Face, 55 millio...
The GDPR Rewrite Stalled — Cyprus Pulled Its Text, and Ireland Inherited the Mess
The Cyprus Presidency withdrew its Digital Omnibus compromise text on June 30 after it became clear no qualified majority existed. Ireland took over t...
Cancer Diagnostics, Payroll Files, and Tax Returns: The Week Enterprise Data Kept Falling Out
Abbott Laboratories lost 30 million rows from its Cancer Diagnostics business, including over a million Social Security numbers, to ShinyHunters. Esté...
830 Towers Becoming 2,300 — and a Thousand Police Departments Cleared to Fly
A GAO report shows DHS plans to nearly triple border surveillance towers to 2,300 by 2034, funded by $1 billion in new spending — while CBP has failed...
The Grace Period Is Over: Nine States Can Now Fine You for a First Privacy Violation
Twenty state privacy laws are in effect, and as of July 2026 nine of their cure periods have lapsed — a first violation now means enforcement, not a w...
California's Privacy Regulator Just Opened Its First Audit — and It Picked the Gig Economy
CalPrivacy announced its first formal CCPA compliance audit on July 21, targeting app-based transportation, delivery, and task platforms. It will exam...
55 Million Suno Users Were Breached in November. They Found Out From Have I Been Pwned in July.
AI music platform Suno was compromised in November 2025 — names, addresses, phone numbers, purchase histories, and partial card data for 55.3 million ...
An AI Agent Breached Hugging Face — and Machine-Speed Attacks Stopped Being a Demo
Hugging Face confirmed that an attacker chained two code-execution flaws in its dataset pipeline, stole cloud credentials, moved laterally into intern...
Three Weeks After Chatrie: What the Supreme Court's Geofence Ruling Actually Changed — and What It Didn't
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, extending Carpenter into the cloud. But the Court pointedly declined...
Show Your ID to Speak: How 'Protecting Children Online' Became a Global Age-Verification Dragnet
In the name of child safety, the EU is rolling out an age-verification app, Brussels is preparing an EU-wide social media ban for kids, Australia has ...