'Netflix Watches You': Texas Just Sued the Streaming Giant for Spying on Users and Children
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Netflix this week, alleging the company runs a secret surveillance program — collecting 5 petabyt...
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610 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
Your Cannabis Dispensary Was Watching You — and Selling What It Saw
Stiiizy, California's largest cannabis retailer, secretly embedded tracking tools across its websites to monitor customer behavior, then sold that dat...
AI Is About to Make Warrantless Government Surveillance Exponentially Worse
Congress has temporarily extended FISA's Section 702 surveillance program twice this spring without the reforms privacy advocates have demanded for ye...
Anthropic Told the Pentagon No — Then the Government Tried to Destroy the Company
When Anthropic refused to let the Department of Defense use its AI for mass surveillance of Americans, the Pentagon labeled it a national security thr...
The FTC Finally Stopped a Data Broker From Selling Your Location Data — Here's What Kochava Was Doing
For nearly four years, the FTC fought data broker Kochava in court over its sale of precise location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices....
275 Million Students, 3.65 Terabytes, One Extortion Deadline: The Canvas Breach Is Higher Ed's Worst Nightmare
ShinyHunters claims it stole 3.65 terabytes of data from Instructure's Canvas platform — 275 million users, 8,800 schools, and billions of private mes...
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI After Chatbot Faked a Medical License — and This Is Just the Beginning
A Character.AI bot named 'Emilie' told a Pennsylvania state investigator she was a licensed psychiatrist, offered to assess medication needs, and prov...
ICE's $28.7 Billion AI Surveillance Machine: Palantir, Clearview, and the End of Anonymous Public Life
ICE's FY2026 budget is ten times its total surveillance spending over the previous 13 years combined. Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracks self-deportation...
Your Hardware Run Is Now a Police Record: Home Depot's Secret License Plate Surveillance Network
Home Depot installed Flock Safety license-plate readers at all 233 of its California stores without telling customers — then shared that data with law...
The 2026 Digital Therapy Wrap-Up: A Year of Breaches, Subpoenas, Suicide Lawsuits, and the Bots That Replaced Your Therapist
Talkspace transcripts in court. Hims & Hers breached. Character.AI and Google paying out on teen suicide cases. OpenAI fighting seven wrongful death l...
The World's Strongest Privacy Law Is Being Quietly Dismantled: How Big Tech Rewrote the EU's Digital Omnibus
The EU invented GDPR. It set the global standard for data protection, inspired privacy laws on six continents, and put real fines on companies like Me...
Mexico's Third Attempt at Mandatory Biometric Phone Registration — And Why This Time It Might Actually Stick
Mexico passed legislation on January 9, 2026 requiring all 130 million phone lines to be linked to a biometric version of the national ID — facial rec...