The EFF Says the SECURE Data Act Is Privacy Theater — Are They Right?
We covered the SECURE Data Act when it passed committee, calling it a meaningful step toward federal privacy law. The Electronic Frontier Foundation j...
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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...
New York Is Coming for Your Face and Your AI Training Data — Two Bills Just Passed
New York's Senate passed the Biometric Identifier Privacy Act, requiring opt-in consent before companies can collect your facial geometry, fingerprint...
Colorado Just Scrapped Its AI Law and Started Over — Here's What Changed and Why It Matters
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 Sold 'Active Listening' AI Ads — It Was a Lie, and the FTC Just Fined Them $930K
Cox Media Group pitched advertisers on an AI service that supposedly listened to consumers through their smart devices and used those overheard conver...
Georgia Just Made Chatbots Tell You They're AI — And It's More Significant Than It Sounds
Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 540 into law, making Georgia the latest state to require chatbots to disclose they're artificial intelligence. It sounds...
20 States, One Mess: What Every American Needs to Know About the Privacy Laws Now in Effect
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 Warrant-Free Surveillance Loophole That AI Just Made Catastrophically Worse
The government doesn't need a warrant to buy your location data, browsing history, or financial transactions — because it buys them from commercial da...
The AI Police State Is Already Here: How Axon, Flock Safety, and Motorola Are Watching You
Facial recognition. Behavioral analytics. Vehicle scanning 20 billion times a month. Predictive policing algorithms that flag you before any crime occ...
The SECURE Data Act Could Rewrite American Privacy Law — Here's What It Actually Says
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...
Your Kid's School Uses Canvas. Here's What to Actually Do This Week.
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 ...
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