The Grace Period Is Over: Nine States Can Now Fine You for a First Privacy Violation
Twenty state privacy laws are in effect, and as of July 2026 nine of their cure periods have lapsed — a first violation now means enforcement, not a w...
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The Other Shoe: How the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Just Put Every EU-US Data Transfer on the Clock
On June 29, the Supreme Court handed privacy advocates a landmark win in Chatrie. The same day, it quietly detonated the legal foundation under transa...
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...
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...
Cox Media Group Sold 'Active Listening' AI Ads — It Was a Lie, and the FTC Just Fined Them $930K
Cox Media Group pitched advertisers on an AI service that supposedly listened to consumers through their smart devices and used those overheard conver...
The SECURE Data Act Could Rewrite American Privacy Law — Here's What It Actually Says
House Republicans dropped the SECURE Data Act on April 22 — the most serious federal privacy legislation in years. It would give every American the ri...
The Take It Down Act Is Law — Now the FTC Is Telling Big Tech to Actually Comply
The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove non-consensual deepfake intimate imagery within 48 hours of a victim's request. A year after Preside...
The FTC Finally Stopped a Data Broker From Selling Your Location Data — Here's What Kochava Was Doing
For nearly four years, the FTC fought data broker Kochava in court over its sale of precise location data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices....
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained
When Your Privacy Policy Is a Lie: The OkCupid–Clarifai Data Scandal Explained...
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...