Congress Punted on FISA 702 — Your Emails and Texts Are Still Being Swept Up Without a Warrant
Congress failed to pass a 5-year or 18-month renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act — the warrantless surveillance progra...
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593 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
$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...
A Security Researcher Walked Through a Conference and Identified Every Stranger He Saw Using Meta's Glasses
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 Wants to Put a Surveillance Agent Inside Every 3D Printer
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...
BrowserGate: LinkedIn Is Allegedly Scanning Your Browser Extensions — and Sharing What It Finds
A privacy investigation by German group Fairlinked alleges LinkedIn secretly injects JavaScript to scan over 6,000 browser extensions on visitors' com...
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....
God-Level Access: How DOGE Copied 300 Million Americans' Social Security Records to an Unauthorized Server
A whistleblower says a DOGE staffer copied every living American's Social Security record — names, SSNs, birth dates, addresses, citizenship status — ...
Incognito Mode Won't Save You from AI: Inside the Perplexity Privacy Lawsuit
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...
Hong Kong Just Made It a Crime to Refuse to Unlock Your Phone
> U.S. State Department Security Alert — March 26, 2026...
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...
The EU Just Put Snapchat on Trial: What the DSA Investigation Means for Your Kids
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 ...
Your Chatbot is the World's Most Patient Interrogator — And You're Telling It Everything
52% of Americans now use AI chatbots. 43% of workers have shared sensitive information with them. A Stanford researcher put it plainly: 'You just can'...