California Just Fined GM $12.75M for Collecting Too Much Data — Not for Leaking It
California's $12.75 million settlement with General Motors is the largest CCPA penalty in state history — and the first built on the data-minimization...
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671 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
Amnesty International: Generative AI Is 'Unlawful by Design' — Built on Mass Privacy Violations
Amnesty International's May 28 report 'Unlawful by Design' concludes that OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek built generative AI through systematic, u...
Palantir Built ICE a Deportation Map Using Your Medicaid Records. Here's How It Works.
ICE's ELITE tool — built by Palantir — populates a real-time map of deportation targets using data including Medicaid records from 80 million patients...
The Digital Euro Is Coming. Here's What a €3,000 Holding Cap and a Centralised Ledger Actually Mean for Your Privacy.
The European Central Bank's digital euro is scheduled for a 2029 debut with a €3,000 individual holding cap and a centralised ledger that grants autho...
FarSight: The Drone Surveillance System That Identifies You by Your Walk, Not Just Your Face
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
The EU's Digital ID Wallet Deadline Is December 2026. Most Member States Aren't Close.
Every EU member state must offer a functional European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. As of April, only four had reached public sandbox stage...
70+ Civil Liberties Groups Want Meta to Stop Its Facial Recognition Smart Glasses. An Internal Memo Explains Why They're Worried.
A coalition of 70+ organisations including the ACLU and EFF is demanding Meta halt its 'Name Tag' facial recognition feature for Ray-Ban and Oakley sm...
The EFF Says the SECURE Data Act Is Privacy Theater — Are They Right?
We covered the SECURE Data Act when it passed committee, calling it a meaningful step toward federal privacy law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation j...
The FTC Just Banned a Data Broker From Selling Sensitive Location Data. Here's Why That Matters.
The FTC secured a settlement banning Kochava's subsidiary from selling sensitive location data linked to millions of mobile devices — including data r...
Canada Found OpenAI Broke Privacy Law Training GPT-4. The Fix Doesn't Apply to the Models That Broke It.
A joint investigation by Canadian privacy commissioners found that OpenAI's collection of personal data to train GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was 'overbroad and ...
GDPR Breach Notifications Hit 443 Per Day — What Eight Years of Data Tells Us
European data protection authorities are now receiving 443 personal data breach notifications every single day — a 22% increase over last year and the...
Your Scattered Public Data Can Be Assembled Into a Digital Twin of You — Researchers Just Proved It
Researchers used LLMs, GANs, and cross-platform image matching to reconstruct detailed personal profiles from fragmented public social media data — ac...