I’ve occasionally shared memories of that terrible day in September. And there is not a day that has gone by since then I don’t remember the 343 firefighters who lost their lives that day. To this day, I cannot think about their heroism or how firefighters Stephen Siller and Gary Box of Squad 1 ran...

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Matt Burgess reports: Cory Solovewicz receives more unwanted emails than you. Seriously—it’s a lot more. Since December 2024, one of the domains at which the security researcher receives email has registered 401,796 messages—by his calculations that’s an average of 699.99 pings per day. This deluge isn’t the regular flood of spam, newsletters, and unwanted deals...

Alexander Martin reports: A 20-year-old man was sentenced Monday to two years in prison for coercing more than 100 girls worldwide into sexual and self-harm activity using platforms such as Snapchat, Telegram and Discord, British authorities said. Justin Swaddle, of Leeds in northern England, targeted 117 female victims aged 13 to 17, according to the...

Charmian Aw, Ciara O’Leary, and Florence Seow of Hogan Lovells Cadwalader write: Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”) has issued its final Advisory Guidelines on Use of Personal Data in Generative AI (“Guidelines”), marking a significant development in Singapore’s AI governance framework. The Guidelines provide long-awaited clarity on how the Personal Data Protection Act 2012...

This arrived in my email today. I do have a ChatGPT account and checked the header and path to make sure it was not just a phishing attempt. The email appears to be a genuine email from ChatGPT/OpenAI. The email says, “Share your travel route and timing, then get a simple plan and pre-drive checks....

Paul Schroeder writes: On June 4, 2026 the Department of Commerce issued a new order “Disclosure Avoidance for Statistical Products” (DAO 216-26) that limits the types of privacy protection methods that the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) can use for their data products. This order subverts processes developed over decades to foster transparency and...

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 22, 2026, the House Energy & Commerce Committee announced the introduction of and intention to advance the “Securing and Establishing Consumer Uniform Rights and Enforcement over Data Act” (the “SECURE Data Act”). The SECURE Data Act, which was crafted by the majority committee members’ Privacy Working Group, would replace the...