When Transparency Becomes an Attack Surface: Maine's Breach Portal Goes Dark
Maine pulled its public data-breach database offline this month after someone planted fake disclosures naming VRChat and Discord. The episode exposes ...
Privacy & Cybersecurity Articles
685 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
Google Sues the Factory Behind Your Fake Toll Texts
Google has taken a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service operation called Lighthouse to court, blaming it for the flood of fake USPS, E-ZPass, and to...
New York's FAIR News Act: When 'Made With AI' Becomes the Law
New York's FAIR News Act would force news organizations to label content substantially made with generative AI — covering weather, sports, and enterta...
Sovereignty Is a Login Screen: France's Linux Migration and the Day Microsoft Cut Off a Prosecutor
France is moving 2.5 million government computers off Windows and onto Linux, and the timing is not an accident. The push gathered force after US sanc...
Two Minutes to Break a Child-Safety Promise: The EU's Age-Verification App Meets Reality
Brussels unveiled a privacy-preserving app to keep children safe online and prove age without exposing identity. Within roughly two minutes, a securit...
The $130 Billion Question: Who Decides Where America's AI Gets Built?
The federal AI buildout promises 75-plus data centers worth $130 billion-plus, fast-tracked onto American soil. But the same number turns up in a stra...
To Protect Kids Online, Congress Wants to ID Everyone. That's the Trade Nobody Voted For.
A House subcommittee just took up 19 federal digital-media bills, including a revised Kids Online Safety Act and an App Store Accountability Act that ...
Connecticut Just Quietly Passed One of the Strongest State Privacy Updates of 2026
Connecticut's Governor signed SB 4 and SB 5 into law, significantly amending the state's consumer data privacy act and creating a new data broker law....
Five Eyes Warns China Is Recruiting Insiders Through LinkedIn. Your Job Profile Is Intelligence Data.
The Five Eyes intelligence agencies issued a rare joint bulletin warning that Chinese military intelligence is using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork to i...
Amazon's Ring Is Scanning the Faces of People Who Never Bought a Ring. Now It's a Class Action.
A new class action over Ring's 'Familiar Faces' feature gets at the core problem with neighborhood facial recognition: the people being scanned never ...
Trump's New AI Executive Order Makes Frontier Model Security Review Voluntary. That's the Problem.
The June 2 executive order 'Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security' creates a voluntary pre-release cybersecurity review f...
The 'Your Phone Is Listening' Ad Tool Was a Scam — and the FTC Just Proved It
Cox Media Group marketed 'Active Listening' — an AI service it claimed could target ads based on conversations overheard by smart devices. The FTC fou...