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...

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...

From the Federal Trade Commission: The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against the operator of the Sendit anonymous messaging app for unlawfully collecting personal data from children, misleading users by sending messages from fake “people,” and tricking consumers into purchasing paid subscriptions by falsely promising to reveal the senders of anonymous messages. A complaint,...

SC Media reports: TikTok was found by Canadian privacy authorities to have implemented inadequate data protections for children accessing its platform, according to Reuters. Aside from failing to adopt mechanisms that would prevent access to individuals younger than 13, TikTok has also obtained excessive data from its child users and then leveraged it for online...

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On September 4, 2025, the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) issued a significant decision in the case EDPS v SRB C-413/23 P. The ruling overturned a previous 2023 decision by the General Court of the European Union (“General Court”) regarding how pseudonymized data should be treated under European Union...

Landon Mion reports: A North Carolina city has approved a measure declaring itself a “Fourth Amendment Workplace” and boosting protections for illegal immigrant workers targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Durham City Council passed the resolution on Tuesday with a unanimous vote to shield city workers against raids and arrests carried out by federal...

Dozens of companies are hiding how you can delete your personal data, The Markup and CalMatters found. After our reporters reached out for comment, multiple companies have stopped the practice. By: Colin Lecher and Tomas Apodaca Data brokers are required by California law to provide ways for consumers to request their data be deleted. But...

Suzanne Smalley reports: Germany’s highest court on Thursday ruled that law enforcement cannot use spyware to monitor personal devices in cases that carry less than a three year maximum sentence. The court was responding to a lawsuit brought by the German digital freedoms organization Digitalcourage. The plaintiffs argued that a 2017 rules change enabling law...

Erik Eubelacker reports: A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to defund Planned Parenthood clinics through the GOP’s tax legislation, building on an earlier ruling that restored funding to just 10 clinics. Last week, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani blocked the government from cutting off Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood members that didn’t provide...

Jude Karabus reports: WeTransfer this week denied claims it uses files uploaded to its ubiquitous cloud storage service to train AI, and rolled back changes it had introduced to its Terms of Service after they deeply upset users. The topic? Granting licensing permissions for an as-yet-unreleased LLM product. Agentic AI, GenAI, AI service bots, AI...

This is what our country has deteriorated to under Trump. Think about whether this is acceptable to you, and if not, what you can and will do about it.  David Moyes reports: President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan went viral on Friday after practically boasting on TV about all the ways ICE agents and Border Patrol agents can go after...

Aurora Munteanu reports: The Leipzig District Court has awarded Facebook users EUR 5000 in compensation for data protection violations from Meta’s Business Tools. This marks a significant precedent in European privacy enforcement. The German court offered the judgment on July 4th, 2025, finding that Meta Platforms Ireland Limited breached the General Data Protection Regulation through its extensive tracking...

Jennifer L. Mitchell, Taylor A. Bloom, and Danielle A. A. Richardson of Baker Hostetler write: On July 1, the California attorney general (CA AG) announced the largest CCPA settlement to date, $1.55 million, and the first settlement against a website publisher, Healthline Media LLC (Healthline). The settlement (pending court approval) resolves allegations against Healthline, a health and wellness information website,...

Todd Richmond reports: The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban on Wednesday, ruling 4-3 that it was superseded by a newer state law that criminalizes abortions only after a fetus can survive outside the womb. State lawmakers adopted the ban in 1849, making it a felony when anyone other...

Jude Joffe-Block and Miles Parks report: The Trump administration has, for the first time ever, built a searchable national citizenship data system. The tool, which is being rolled out in phases, is designed to be used by state and local election officials to give them an easier way to ensure only citizens are voting. But...

Maybe they should change their name and not call themselves “Liberal” anymore?  Catharine Tunney reports from Canada: The Liberal government’s proposed border bill would empower police and the country’s spy agency to seek information from a wide range of service providers — including medical professionals, banks and car rental companies — without a warrant, government...

Daniel Wiessner reports: A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a rule adopted by the administration of former President Joe Biden that strengthened privacy protections for women seeking abortions and patients who receive gender transition treatments. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, said the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its...

From the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), June 17, 2025: We have fined genetic testing company 23andMe £2.31 million for failing to implement appropriate security measures to protect the personal information of UK users, following a large-scale cyber attack in 2023. The penalty follows a joint investigation conducted by the ICO and the Office of...

There are only two updates to PogoWasRight.org this morning. The first, a link to testimony by Bruce Schneier, offers a chilling indictment about the terrible harm DOGE has already done to each and every one of us. This second one, by Scott Greenfield, indicts the Supreme Court for its role in now giving DOGE permission...

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The German data protection authority (BfDI) has fined Vodafone GmbH, the telecommunications company’s German subsidiary, €45 million ($51.4 million) for privacy and security violations. “Due to malicious employees in partner agencies who broker contracts to customers on behalf of Vodafone, there had been fraud cases due to fictitious contracts or contract changes at...