July 1 Brings Neural Data Protections, LLM Training Disclosures, and Two New Privacy States
Today, Arkansas becomes a comprehensive-privacy state, Utah adds a right to correct your data, and Connecticut's beefed-up CTDPA starts protecting neu...
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The KIDS Act Passes the House 267-117 — The Anonymity Tax Heads to the Senate
Last night the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, the first time any version of KOSA has cleared the lower chamber. The duty of ca...
Chatrie v. United States: The Supreme Court Just Put the Fourth Amendment Between You and the Geofence Dragnet
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain historical location...
Chat Control's Endgame: Tomorrow, Brussels Decides Whether Every European Message Gets Scanned
On June 29, negotiators from the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission sit down for the fifth and final scheduled trilogue on the Child Sexual Abuse ...
The June Breach Ledger: A Record Korean Fine, a Nintendo Ransom, and 1.4 Million Medical Records
While the policy fights over age verification and facial recognition grabbed the headlines, the back half of June 2026 delivered a brutal run of breac...
Loyalty Tax: The Washington Post Allegedly Charged Its Most Devoted Readers More — by Watching How They Read
A class action says The Washington Post turned readers' habits — which columnists they follow, when they check election news — into a 'pricing profile...
The KIDS Act: How a Child-Safety Bill Became a Mandate to Card Every American Online
House leaders bundled KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and a dozen other bills into one giant package — the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act. In the deal-making, ...
It's Law Now: Britain Bans Under-16s From Social Media — and Builds the Age-Check Machine to Enforce It
We've tracked the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill since it was a 'Trojan horse for mass surveillance.' On June 17, 2026, Keir Starmer confirmed ...
You Didn't Consent to Ring's Camera, But It Remembers Your Face Anyway
Amazon's Ring rolled out a feature called 'Familiar Faces' that uses AI to recognize and remember people who walk past its doorbell cameras. A new cla...
A 93% Match and an Overnight in Jail: How Florida's Facial Recognition Wrongly Branded Robert Dillon a Child Predator
Jacksonville Beach police ran a grainy photo through a facial recognition system called FACESNXT, got a '93% match,' and built a child-luring case aro...
When the Escape Hatch Becomes the Target: Europe Declares War on the VPN
Age-verification laws drove millions of Europeans to download VPNs. Now Brussels has noticed — and the European Parliament's research arm is calling t...
Curfews, Kill-Switches and the Under-16 Ban: What Starmer's Social Media Crackdown Actually Does
Keir Starmer has announced that Britain will bar under-16s from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and the rest — complete with overnight curfews, anti-doomsc...