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...

Privacy scholar Daniel Solove writes: I’m pleased to share the final version of my article, “Against Privacy Essentialism” 104 N.C. L. Rev. 613 (2026). In this article, I examine a foundational question: What is privacy? It is a question that has challenged scholars, courts, and policymakers for years, and for good reason. How privacy is defined...

A press release issued on March 17 by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has committed to implementing measures to help ensure that international sport federations and other anti-doping organizations do not use highly sensitive personal information collected from athletes and that is under WADA’s control for purposes other...

Regular readers may recall that this site recently noted The Data Broker Directory: Who has your data, where they got it, and who they sell it to by Codamail’s Stephen K. Gielda of Packetderm. Instead of taking a well-deserved break after all the work he did to compile that resource, Steve went down the rabbit...

Pranav Baskar and Hamed Aleaziz report: In a secret deportation arrangement, the Trump administration flew nine people, nearly all of whom had been granted U.S. court protections from being sent back to their home countries, to the African nation of Cameroon in January. None of them are from Cameroon, according to government documents obtained by...

Cindy Cohn of EFF has announced a book that every privacy advocate and fan of EFF is going to want to read. Her post on LinkedIn: I’ve been writing a professional memoir called Privacy’s Defender about my work defending privacy online with EFF for the past 30 years. Welp, it’s finally ready for publication by...

  ‘I Can’t Tell You’: Attorneys, Relatives Struggle To Find Hospitalized ICE Detainees Claudia Boyd-Barrett and Oona Zenda Illustration by Oona Zenda January 30, 2026 Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone. A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now,...

Joe Mullin of EFF writes: Government invasion of a reporter’s home, and seizure of journalistic materials, is exactly the kind of abuse of power the First Amendment is designed to prevent. It represents the most extreme form of press intimidation. Yet, that’s what happened on Wednesday morning to Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, when the FBI...