102 articles on privacy.
ShinyHunters exploited a zero-day in Oracle's enterprise software and the disclosures are now landing in a wave: America's insurance regulators lost 3...
Today, Arkansas becomes a comprehensive-privacy state, Utah adds a right to correct your data, and Connecticut's beefed-up CTDPA starts protecting neu...
Last night the House passed the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, the first time any version of KOSA has cleared the lower chamber. The duty of ca...
In a 6-3 decision authored by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court held that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain historical location...
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 ...
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...
A class action says The Washington Post turned readers' habits — which columnists they follow, when they check election news — into a 'pricing profile...
House leaders bundled KOSA, COPPA 2.0, and a dozen other bills into one giant package — the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act. In the deal-making, ...
We've tracked the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill since it was a 'Trojan horse for mass surveillance.' On June 17, 2026, Keir Starmer confirmed ...
Amazon's Ring rolled out a feature called 'Familiar Faces' that uses AI to recognize and remember people who walk past its doorbell cameras. A new cla...
Jacksonville Beach police ran a grainy photo through a facial recognition system called FACESNXT, got a '93% match,' and built a child-luring case aro...
Age-verification laws drove millions of Europeans to download VPNs. Now Brussels has noticed — and the European Parliament's research arm is calling t...
Keir Starmer has announced that Britain will bar under-16s from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and the rest — complete with overnight curfews, anti-doomsc...
Washington and New York have moved to regulate not just 3D-printed guns but the digital files used to make them. Banning a physical weapon is one thin...
Anthropic's Fable 5 launched on June 9 and was pulled days later after a Commerce Department directive. Whatever you think of the policy, the lesson i...
Australia's under-16 ban came into force in December 2025. Six months later, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have followed with their own age-che...
Spotify removed 57,000 AI-generated podcast episodes pushing illegal pharmacies and crypto scams — and the accounts it actioned jumped from 87 in 2024...
Meta quietly evicted every AI assistant but its own from WhatsApp. On June 10, the European Commission gave it roughly a working week to reverse cours...
The UK keeps circling back to the same idea: have your phone inspect your messages before encryption ever protects them. Client-side scanning is sold ...
A Derbyshire officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidence across multiple cases. Days earlier, the UK announce...
An Institute for Justice study found at least 18 police officers caught using automated license-plate-reader networks to stalk romantic interests. One...
In May 2026 the Mayor of London's policing office blocked the Met's £50m plan to buy AI software from Palantir. It was a procurement decision, not a p...
A viral theory holds that four Liberal bills — C-8, C-9, C-22, and C-34 — are snapping together into a Canadian digital-ID surveillance grid, with C-3...
Maine pulled its public data-breach database offline this month after someone planted fake disclosures naming VRChat and Discord. The episode exposes ...
Google has taken a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service operation called Lighthouse to court, blaming it for the flood of fake USPS, E-ZPass, and to...
New York's FAIR News Act would force news organizations to label content substantially made with generative AI — covering weather, sports, and enterta...
France is moving 2.5 million government computers off Windows and onto Linux, and the timing is not an accident. The push gathered force after US sanc...
Brussels unveiled a privacy-preserving app to keep children safe online and prove age without exposing identity. Within roughly two minutes, a securit...
The federal AI buildout promises 75-plus data centers worth $130 billion-plus, fast-tracked onto American soil. But the same number turns up in a stra...
A House subcommittee just took up 19 federal digital-media bills, including a revised Kids Online Safety Act and an App Store Accountability Act that ...
Connecticut's Governor signed SB 4 and SB 5 into law, significantly amending the state's consumer data privacy act and creating a new data broker law....
The Five Eyes intelligence agencies issued a rare joint bulletin warning that Chinese military intelligence is using LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork to i...
A new class action over Ring's 'Familiar Faces' feature gets at the core problem with neighborhood facial recognition: the people being scanned never ...
The June 2 executive order 'Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security' creates a voluntary pre-release cybersecurity review f...
Cox Media Group marketed 'Active Listening' — an AI service it claimed could target ads based on conversations overheard by smart devices. The FTC fou...
Chuck Borges, the former chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, alleges that DOGE copied the government's master Social Security da...
The FBI has told Congress that a Chinese intrusion into one of its internal surveillance systems is a 'major cyber incident.' The system — part of the...
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...
Amnesty International's May 28 report 'Unlawful by Design' concludes that OpenAI, Google, Meta, and DeepSeek built generative AI through systematic, u...
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 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...
Researchers have built a drone surveillance system called FarSight that identifies individuals at long range by fusing facial recognition, gait analys...
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...
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...
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 secured a settlement banning Kochava's subsidiary from selling sensitive location data linked to millions of mobile devices — including data r...
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 ...
European data protection authorities are now receiving 443 personal data breach notifications every single day — a 22% increase over last year and the...
Researchers used LLMs, GANs, and cross-platform image matching to reconstruct detailed personal profiles from fragmented public social media data — ac...
General Motors earned $20 million selling OnStar driver location and behaviour data to Verisk Analytics and LexisNexis while its privacy policy told c...
Vietnam has enacted its first comprehensive national data protection law, joining a wave of privacy legislation sweeping Southeast Asia. The law intro...
New York's Senate passed the Biometric Identifier Privacy Act, requiring opt-in consent before companies can collect your facial geometry, fingerprint...
Colorado was supposed to be the state that gave America its GDPR-equivalent for artificial intelligence. Instead, the governor just signed a bill repe...
Cox Media Group pitched advertisers on an AI service that supposedly listened to consumers through their smart devices and used those overheard conver...
Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 540 into law, making Georgia the latest state to require chatbots to disclose they're artificial intelligence. It sounds...
Indiana, Kentucky, and Rhode Island joined the club on January 1, 2026 — bringing the total to 20 states with comprehensive consumer privacy laws. Ark...
The government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, browsing history, or financial transactions — because it buys them from commercial da...
Facial recognition. Behavioral analytics. Vehicle scanning 20 billion times a month. Predictive policing algorithms that flag you before any crime occ...
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...
About 8,809 institutions worldwide were named in the May 2026 Canvas breach — roughly 7,400 U.S. schools across all 50 states. If your child's school ...
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...
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 —...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Netflix this week, alleging the company runs a secret surveillance program — collecting 5 petabyt...
Stiiizy, California's largest cannabis retailer, secretly embedded tracking tools across its websites to monitor customer behavior, then sold that dat...
Congress has temporarily extended FISA's Section 702 surveillance program twice this spring without the reforms privacy advocates have demanded for ye...
When Anthropic refused to let the Department of Defense use its AI for mass surveillance of Americans, the Pentagon labeled it a national security thr...
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....
ShinyHunters claims it stole 3.65 terabytes of data from Instructure's Canvas platform — 275 million users, 8,800 schools, and billions of private mes...
A Character.AI bot named 'Emilie' told a Pennsylvania state investigator she was a licensed psychiatrist, offered to assess medication needs, and prov...
ICE's FY2026 budget is ten times its total surveillance spending over the previous 13 years combined. Palantir's ImmigrationOS tracks self-deportation...
Home Depot installed Flock Safety license-plate readers at all 233 of its California stores without telling customers — then shared that data with law...
Talkspace transcripts in court. Hims & Hers breached. Character.AI and Google paying out on teen suicide cases. OpenAI fighting seven wrongful death l...
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...
Mexico passed legislation on January 9, 2026 requiring all 130 million phone lines to be linked to a biometric version of the national ID — facial rec...
On March 25, 2026, the UK's ICO and Ofcom published a joint statement formalizing age verification requirements under the Online Safety Act. Platforms...
The Supreme Court heard arguments in Chatrie v. United States on April 27, 2026 — the first major Fourth Amendment case the justices have taken up sin...
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...
Every word Jennifer Kamrass typed to her Talkspace therapist ended up in court — produced by the employer she was suing. Talkspace says it has 'one of...
Vercel — the platform hosting millions of web applications — was breached through a chain that started with an infostealer on an employee of an AI com...
Congress failed to pass a 5-year or 18-month renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the warrantless surveillance progra...
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...
At RSAC 2026 in San Francisco, ESET's Jake Moore paired Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses with commercial facial recognition software and identified people i...
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...
A privacy investigation by German group Fairlinked alleges LinkedIn secretly injects JavaScript to scan over 6,000 browser extensions on visitors' com...
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....
A whistleblower says a DOGE staffer copied every living American's Social Security record — names, SSNs, birth dates, addresses, citizenship status — ...
A class-action lawsuit filed today alleges Perplexity was secretly routing your search queries to Meta and Google — even when you were browsing in pri...
Half of all 10-year-olds in Denmark use Snapchat. The European Commission just opened a formal investigation. Here's what predators exploit, what the ...
A jury just ruled that Meta and YouTube's recommendation algorithms are defective products that caused real harm to a real person. The punitive damage...
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...
Russian intelligence successfully compromised thousands of Signal accounts through sophisticated phishing — not by breaking encryption, but by exploit...
A former DOGE software engineer allegedly walked out of the Social Security Administration with two massive databases — potentially covering 500 milli...
30 billion photos. 8 years of gameplay. Pokémon Go players unknowingly built the most detailed spatial map ever created — now powering delivery robots...
In the span of two weeks, Meta announced it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs and TikTok confirmed it won't add it. The privacy imp...
A WIRED investigation reveals Telegram channels recruiting 'AI face models' for pig-butchering scams in Cambodia — and the massive privacy implication...
Payment processors aren't just moving your money anymore — they're building identity verification empires. From Stripe Identity's biometric scans to P...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense, and TCL for turning millions of living rooms into surveillance systems. Courts have...
The same AI that helps you write emails and debug code helped the US military strike over 1,000 targets in Iran within 24 hours. What does this mean f...
Meta argues in court that downloading pirated books via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use—as long as you're using them to train AI. The implications fo...
Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025. A Swedish investigation just revealed that contractors in Kenya are reviewing the intimate, unblurr...
A hacktivist group claiming to have breached DHS released contractor records tied to ICE enforcement. Buried in the data is a funded contract for a mi...
A viral message claiming U.S. Cyber Command warned soldiers to disable Uber and Snapchat location services was debunked — but the underlying privacy r...