The Warrant Loophole: How the FBI Tracks You Without Breaking the Law
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed under oath what privacy advocates feared: the FBI is buying your location data without a warrant. Here's the legal l...
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581 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
The Algorithm Is on Trial — and It Just Lost
A jury just ruled that Meta and YouTube's recommendation algorithms are defective products that caused real harm to a real person. The punitive damage...
You Told BetterHelp Your Darkest Secrets. They Sold Them to Facebook.
2 million people chose BetterHelp for privacy. BetterHelp sold their mental health data to Facebook, Snapchat, and Criteo. The FTC fined them $7.8M. T...
Russia Phished Thousands of Signal Accounts — The App Was Fine, the Users Weren't
Russian intelligence successfully compromised thousands of Signal accounts through sophisticated phishing — not by breaking encryption, but by exploit...
DOGE Employee Allegedly Stole 500 Million Americans' Social Security Data on a Thumb Drive
A former DOGE software engineer allegedly walked out of the Social Security Administration with two massive databases — potentially covering 500 milli...
Meta's AI Agent Leaked Sensitive User Data to Employees — Here's What We Know
A Meta AI agent gave bad engineering advice that exposed massive amounts of sensitive user and company data to unauthorized employees for two hours — ...
You Were Never the Player: How Pokémon Go Built a $3.5 Billion Surveillance Map
30 billion photos. 8 years of gameplay. Pokémon Go players unknowingly built the most detailed spatial map ever created — now powering delivery robots...
The Great Encryption Retreat: Meta Kills Instagram E2EE While TikTok Refuses to Build It
In the span of two weeks, Meta announced it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs and TikTok confirmed it won't add it. The privacy imp...
Your Face For Rent: How AI Model Recruitment Is Fueling the Next Generation of Deepfake Scams
A WIRED investigation reveals Telegram channels recruiting 'AI face models' for pig-butchering scams in Cambodia — and the massive privacy implication...
The Payment Giant That Wants to Be Your Digital ID
Payment processors aren't just moving your money anymore — they're building identity verification empires. From Stripe Identity's biometric scans to P...
Texas Sues the Biggest TV Makers in the World — Your Smart TV Has Been Spying on You Every 500 Milliseconds
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense, and TCL for turning millions of living rooms into surveillance systems. Courts have...
Ottawa's Surveillance Creep: What Bill C-22 Actually Does — And Why Canadians Should Be Alarmed
The Carney government tabled Bill C-22 — An Act to Keep Canadians Safe — on March 12, 2026. It's the third attempt at the same surveillance framework:...