The following is a personal statement, cross-posted with DataBreaches.net: Today is a day of national protest against the authoritarian regime being imposed by a narcissist and those who are afraid to stand up to him. Today is the day when my husband — an arch-Conservative who has never participated in a political protest in his...

Jacob Roach reports: You’re constantly leaving your fingerprint all over the internet. You leave it with the personal information you share willingly, the personal information you share unknowingly, and with the mountain of data that gets sent to each website you load. Maybe you know a thing or two about privacy and decided to pick up a...

From a press release by Claro: The Town of Dover has taken a bold step forward in public safety by partnering with Claro to deploy advanced AI-driven surveillance technology across its municipal buildings. This initiative, which enhances both security and operational efficiency, is already being recognized as a model for smart city innovation. With the...

NEW YORK—The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint asks a federal court to stop this unconstitutional surveillance program, which has silenced and...

Gabriel Geiger, Crofton Black, Emmanuel Freudenthal, and Riccardo Coluccini report: … Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap’s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley. It...

As posted on Telegram by Pavel Durov, its founder: Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms: Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would...

Christopher Brown reports: LinkedIn Corp. must face three related lawsuits alleging it collected the sensitive information of visitors to several health-related websites without their consent in violation of California privacy laws. The individual plaintiffs in two of the proposed class actions adequately pleaded claims of invasion of privacy under the California Constitution and violations of...

GW Law Professor Daniel Solove talks with GW Research Magazine About His Latest Research October 9, 2025 For authoritarian governments, surveillance has always been a powerful tool for stifling dissent and ensuring obedience in a population. Private information gathered on individuals can be used to manipulate, blackmail or threaten them with punishment. In his article,...

Joe Fay reports: An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country’s data protection regulator ruled the software giant “illegally” tracked students via its 365 Education platform and used their data. noyb said the ruling [PDF] by the Austrian Data Protection Authority also confirmed that Microsoft had tried to shift responsibility for access requests to...

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A great deal of scraped data contains people’s personal information. This personal data provides the grist for AI tools such as facial recognition, deep fakes, and generative AI. Although scraping...

The Upper Tribunal (UT) has handed down its judgment in the UK Information Commissioner’s appeal against the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) decision on Clearview AI Inc (Clearview). In May 2022, the Commissioner fined US-based company Clearview £7.5m and issued an enforcement notice for scraping images of UK residents from the web and social media, and then uploading them into its global online...

How many readers would think about moving to California because of this regulation? It sounds great. Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On September 26, 2025, following a public comment period, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”) adopted its regulations concerning the Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform (“DROP”). The DROP is a tool developed to address the California Delete Act’s requirement...

Scott Holland reports that a California state appeals court agreed with a hospital that it should not be held liable for employee misbehavior if they had a clear policy in place but the employee knowingly violated it: A state appeals panel has agreed hospitals can’t be sued if one of their employees posts confidential patient...

Suzanne Smalley reports: Researchers have discovered new spyware embedded in fake messaging apps being used to target people in the United Arab Emirates. The cybersecurity firm ESET said Thursday its experts found two Android spyware campaigns, dubbed ProSpy and ToSpy, which pose as Signal and ToTok — a free messaging and calling app that originated...

In an interview recorded in March with the understanding that it would only be released after her death, Jane Goodall shared her views on a number of topics.  You can read more about the interview or watch a clip from the interview, which is transcribed below: “I would say I was somebody sent to this...

Researching a crime on ChatGPT that you just committed may not be the smartest move. Kathryn Skopec reports: A Springfield teen allegedly damaged 17 vehicles in a Missouri State University (MSU) freshman parking lot in late August, with ChatGPT and cell data used in the investigation leading to his arrest. […] The SPD also later...

From the good folks at EFF: Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy much easier. This month we’re going to do just that....

Joseph Cox reports: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. The documents explicitly show that ICE is choosing this product over others offered...

Nada Hassanein reports: Louisiana has issued an arrest warrant for a California doctor for allegedly mailing abortion pills to a Louisiana woman — the latest legal volley in an ongoing fight between states with abortion bans and those that have enacted protections for abortion providers who use telemedicine to send abortion medication over state lines....

Zack Whittaker reports: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has blocked an effort to pass legislation that would have extended data privacy protections for federal lawmakers and public officials to everyone in the United States. On Monday night, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) asked the U.S. Senate for unanimous consent from fellow senators to pass his legislation, S.2850, or...