Paige Collings and Jillian C. York write: This week, politicians in the UK pushed forward with plans to eviscerate privacy and free speech on the internet by announcing a ban on social media for users under 16 that is set to take effect in Spring 2027. The UK government continues to falsely characterize this policy as a necessary response...

Zack Whittaker reports: Apple’s plan to change a privacy feature that lets paying customers hide their real email addresses when creating online accounts could make it easier for apps and websites to block anonymous sign-ups. Apple’s Hide My Email is an iCloud+ feature that generates anonymous email addresses under the @icloud.com domain, which then forward messages to...

Naomi Diaz reports: The American Hospital Association and Illinois Health and Hospital Association are urging the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in a website-tracking lawsuit against Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as Edward-Elmhurst Health. In a May 27 amicus brief, the hospital groups said they support Endeavor Health and...

A May 21, 2026 press release from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and WhatsApp LLC (collectively “WhatsApp”) after the company misled consumers regarding the strength and scope of its privacy protections for its messaging app, WhatsApp. WhatsApp is widely marketed as a secure messaging service...

Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California law, researchers say. By: Colin Lecher A new audit has found that websites across the internet may be failing to abide by California privacy law, ignoring a requirement to not track visitors who set a privacy control. The report, from researchers...

FBI Milwaukee Public Affairs Officer Caroline Clancy (414) 489-3644 April 22, 2026 Dear Parents and Guardians, Over the course of the last few years, the FBI has observed a concerning increase in activity by online actors involved in predatory activity. These predators target children across the United States, including in Wisconsin. “764” is often used...

Chris Smith writes: Incognito Mode is an internet browsing mode that most web browsers support to allow the user to visit websites without leaving traces on the computer, like browsing history. It’s a useful tool for visiting specific websites on a shared computer, or for testing websites and services in a different browser. However, Incognito...

Ernesto Van der Sar writes: HBO has obtained a DMCA subpoena, ordering X Corp. to identify the person behind a Euphoria fan account that allegedly posted spoilers from unaired episodes of Season 3. The action comes just days before the show’s long-awaited premiere this weekend, but it remains unclear what the company plans to do...

Over on Codamail (fka Cotse.net), Steve Gielda has updated his research on VPN infrastructure and its implications for your privacy. From that article: The Question VPN providers market themselves as independent services in diverse jurisdictions. This investigation asks a structural question: does the global VPN industry’s physical infrastructure actually reflect that diversity, or does it...

Colin Woods reports: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health last month settled a class-action lawsuit by a handful of Android users who claimed that the state had worked with Google to automatically install a COVID-19 contact-tracing app on their phones, and the phones of more than one million others, tracking their locations and transmitting their...

Top Class Actions reports: Google agreed to a $135 million class action settlement to resolve claims that it used Android devices to transfer information to Google without user permission, consuming cellular data. The Google class action settlement benefits consumers who have used mobile devices running the Android operating system to access the internet through cellular...

Sergiu Gatlan reports: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Americans against using foreign-developed mobile applications, particularly those created by Chinese developers. In a public service announcement (PSA) issued via its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) platform this Tuesday, the FBI warned of privacy and data security risks associated with these apps. “As of...

Did you sign up for the new White House app? Don’t use it until you read this, because it puts your privacy and data security at risk. Patrick Quirk takes an impressive technical piece and distills it for those of us who are not developers or coders. His article is based on original research by...

March 19, 2026 Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) re-introduced the Online Privacy Act, legislation that sets a national baseline for how Americans’ personal data can be collected, used, and shared. Key provisions of the Online Privacy Act: Prohibits companies from using private communications like users’ emails or web traffic for ads or other...

Hunton writes: On March 3, 2026, the Virginia Attorney General appealed a U.S. District Court’s grant of a preliminary injunction barring the enforcement of a new Virginia law requiring age verification and a time limit on social media use by minors under the age of 16 pending a final determination on the merits. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act was...

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 3, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency (“CalPrivacy”) announced its first California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) enforcement action involving student privacy, requiring 2080 Media, Inc., d/b/a PlayOn Sports (“PlayOn”), to pay a $1.10 million fine for alleged violations of the CCPA in a stipulated order. PlayOn is a media and technology company...

Lena Cohen and Hudson Hongo write: We’ve all had the unsettling experience of seeing an ad online that reveals just how much advertisers know about our lives. You’re right to be disturbed. Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples’ locations, new reporting has confirmed. For years,...

 Gail Menius // We avoid tasks that are too hard. When we avoid them (consciously or unconsciously) the things we do instead are called “avoidance behaviors.” Adults and teachers alike […]

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