Law professor and privacy law scholar Dan Solove has made two short essays available to everyone: The AI Inference Problem in Privacy Law AI inferences undermine privacy laws. Whether they recognize inferences or not, privacy laws are in a bind. Rethinking Privacy of the Mind:  Why Protecting Neural Data Is Insufficient Is protecting neural data...

Alice Gibbs reports: A candidate who is on bond after being charged with two counts of second-degree rape is set to become a chief of police in Louisiana. Christopher “Chris” Paul was arrested last month after being accused of raping two 13-year-old girls 20 years ago. He is also currently running unopposed to become the...

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Kelsey Reichmann reports: In an emergency order, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to let the Trump administration resurrect a national citizenship database using Social Security information for voter verification during the midterm elections. A lower court blocked the Department of Homeland Security from collecting individuals’ Social Security numbers, citizenship status and other private data...

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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...