Week in Review: The Mechanism That Was Built to Fail
TikTok paid $400 million. The FTC named surveillance pricing. Santa Barbara swapped one camera vendor for another. A data broker got fined for making ...
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Mid-Year Review: The Year Privacy Became an Infrastructure Problem
Eight hundred data centers under construction. 101 gigawatts of announced private gas generation. Two-thirds of new AI facilities sited in water-stres...
Week in Review: Cameras, Classifiers, and What Happens to Your Data When the Company Dies
Facial recognition on the Tube. A four-year-unpatched criminal records portal. An airline's emails and 30 million recorded calls sold for $10 million....
Fortnight in Review: A Delete Button That Works, an Age Gate That Won't, and Seams Coming Apart
Two weeks that produced the best privacy mechanism America has ever shipped and the worst architecture Congress has advanced, in the same news cycle. ...
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...
Surveillance by Default: The Week the Machinery Won Without Winning the Argument
This week's ledger isn't about a breach — it's about architecture. Europe's message-scanning regime survived a vote a majority cast against it. Americ...