Chat Control Is Back Until 2028, and the AI Act's Big Date Came and Mostly Went
Member states approved the temporary CSAM scanning derogation in early August, restoring voluntary message scanning until April 2028 after a Parliamen...
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Seven Months Inside the UK Criminal Records Office, on Software Last Patched in 2019
The ICO has reprimanded ACRO Criminal Records Office after attackers spent seven months inside its website and content management system. The portal w...
Enforcement Arrives, Data Keeps Leaking: The Privacy Week of July 19–26, 2026
In eight days: California opened its first proactive privacy audit, nine states lost their grace periods, an AI agent breached Hugging Face, 55 millio...
The GDPR Rewrite Stalled — Cyprus Pulled Its Text, and Ireland Inherited the Mess
The Cyprus Presidency withdrew its Digital Omnibus compromise text on June 30 after it became clear no qualified majority existed. Ireland took over t...
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...
Chat Control's Endgame: Tomorrow, Brussels Decides Whether Every European Message Gets Scanned
On June 29, negotiators from the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission sit down for the fifth and final scheduled trilogue on the Child Sexual Abuse ...
The June Breach Ledger: A Record Korean Fine, a Nintendo Ransom, and 1.4 Million Medical Records
While the policy fights over age verification and facial recognition grabbed the headlines, the back half of June 2026 delivered a brutal run of breac...
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...
Vietnam Just Enacted Its First National Data Protection Law — Southeast Asia's Privacy Landscape Is Changing Fast
Vietnam has enacted its first comprehensive national data protection law, joining a wave of privacy legislation sweeping Southeast Asia. The law intro...
The World's Strongest Privacy Law Is Being Quietly Dismantled: How Big Tech Rewrote the EU's Digital Omnibus
The EU invented GDPR. It set the global standard for data protection, inspired privacy laws on six continents, and put real fines on companies like Me...
7 Million Surveillance Nodes on People's Faces: How Meta's Smart Glasses Became the Biggest Bystander Privacy Disaster in History
Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025. A Swedish investigation just revealed that contractors in Kenya are reviewing the intimate, unblurr...