Vegas Week: Hackers Spent August Explaining Why Age Verification Is a Breach Waiting to Happen
Black Hat USA ran August 1–6 and DEF CON 34 ran August 6–9, in the same week the Senate advanced four bills that require knowing every internet user's...
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The Youth AI Privacy Act Has One Genuinely Good Idea and One Fatal Design Flaw
S. 4199 would bar AI companies from training on minors' chat logs or disclosing them to other firms. That provision is correct and overdue. But by pro...
Four Bills, One Committee, One Direction — the Senate Just Advanced the Age-Gated Internet
On August 5 the Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the SCREEN Act, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act in a single sitting. Every one ...
Four Ad Libraries Ship Your Precise Location by Default — and the App Developer Usually Doesn't Know
An EFF investigation found that BidMachine, InMobi, Verve's HyBid, and Huawei's Petal Ads can collect or transmit device location by default once the ...
The FTC Wants to Police What AI Models Refuse to Say — and Privacy Advocates Want It Withdrawn
The FTC's proposed policy statement on the 'suppression of accuracy in artificial intelligence systems' closed its comment period on July 31. Issued u...
830 Towers Becoming 2,300 — and a Thousand Police Departments Cleared to Fly
A GAO report shows DHS plans to nearly triple border surveillance towers to 2,300 by 2034, funded by $1 billion in new spending — while CBP has failed...
Show Your ID to Speak: How 'Protecting Children Online' Became a Global Age-Verification Dragnet
In the name of child safety, the EU is rolling out an age-verification app, Brussels is preparing an EU-wide social media ban for kids, Australia has ...
100,000 Cameras and a Reckoning: How Flock Safety Became America's Most-Cancelled Surveillance Company
Flock Safety's automatic license plate readers now number more than 100,000 across the United States, quietly logging where your car goes and building...
Two Minutes, No Suspicion Required: Fourth Circuit Says Border Agents Can Manually Search Your Phone at Will
In United States v. Belmonte Cardozo, the Fourth Circuit held that a manual search of your cellphone at the border is 'routine' — meaning a CBP office...
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 ...
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 Warrant-Free Surveillance Loophole That AI Just Made Catastrophically Worse
The government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, browsing history, or financial transactions — because it buys them from commercial da...
New York Wants to Put a Surveillance Agent Inside Every 3D Printer
New York's 2026-2027 budget bill would require all 3D printers sold in the state to include mandatory censorware that scans every print job for forbid...