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...
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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 ...
The Take It Down Act Is Law — Now the FTC Is Telling Big Tech to Actually Comply
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...
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 —...
'Netflix Watches You': Texas Just Sued the Streaming Giant for Spying on Users and Children
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Netflix this week, alleging the company runs a secret surveillance program — collecting 5 petabyt...
Your Cannabis Dispensary Was Watching You — and Selling What It Saw
Stiiizy, California's largest cannabis retailer, secretly embedded tracking tools across its websites to monitor customer behavior, then sold that dat...
AI Is About to Make Warrantless Government Surveillance Exponentially Worse
Congress has temporarily extended FISA's Section 702 surveillance program twice this spring without the reforms privacy advocates have demanded for ye...
Anthropic Told the Pentagon No — Then the Government Tried to Destroy the Company
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...
The FTC Finally Stopped a Data Broker From Selling Your Location Data — Here's What Kochava Was Doing
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....
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