Google Bought a Dead Airline's Data for $10 Million, and Picked the Company That Anonymised It
In a bankruptcy auction revealed in an 14 August court filing, Google won Spirit Airlines' enterprise dataset for $10 million: 100 million emails, 500...
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Three Weeks After Chatrie: What the Supreme Court's Geofence Ruling Actually Changed — and What It Didn't
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants are Fourth Amendment searches, extending Carpenter into the cloud. But the Court pointedly declined...
The Squeeze on GrapheneOS: What Happens to the Private Phone When Google Stops Making the Only Phone It Runs On
GrapheneOS is the gold standard for a hardened, de-Googled Android phone — and for years it ran on exactly one hardware line: Google's Pixel. In 2026 ...
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...
Google Is Paying $135 Million Over Android Data It Collected Without Your Permission — Here's How to Claim Your Share
A class action lawsuit alleges Google's Android OS secretly transferred user data to Google's servers in the background — even when phones were idle —...
A Billion Identities in Your Pocket: Google Wallet Just Became India's Biometric ID Distribution Network
On April 28, 2026, Google announced that India's Aadhaar biometric credentials can now be stored in Google Wallet — making a US tech giant the distrib...
$375 Million and Counting: Juries Are Starting to Hold Social Media Platforms Accountable for Teen Harm
Two landmark verdicts in April 2026 have cracked open a decade of platform immunity: a New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million over child exp...
770%: The Staggering Rise of Government Requests for Your Social Media Data
New research from Proton reveals that US government requests for social media and tech company user data have surged 770% in the past decade — with 3....