digital rights

Federal prosecutors have charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick under a rarely used destruction-of-property statute for allegedly wiping his phone with GrapheneOS's duress password during a border search.

France's National Assembly and Senate approved a law blocking under-15s from social media, the first blanket ban of its kind in the EU.

Citizen Lab found Pegasus spyware infected the phone of a European Parliament member who sat on the committee investigating Pegasus abuses, prompting a joint civil-society demand for EU action.

Brussels says Meta failed to assess addiction risks from infinite scroll, autoplay and recommender systems on Instagram and Facebook, exposing the company to a fine of up to 6% of global turnover.

New York's Unified Court System will bar recording-capable eyewear from its 1,240-plus courts starting July 20, the first statewide blanket ban of its kind.

The European Parliament and Council reached a provisional political agreement on May 7 to simplify the AI Act, shifting key compliance deadlines and adding a new ban on nonconsensual intimate imagery.

An EFF analysis of millions of Flock Safety ALPR searches reveals law enforcement using crime-fighting surveillance tools for school residency fraud checks, employment background investigations, and noise complaints — with no warrant required.

Justice Kagan rejected Apple's emergency stay request in under an hour on May 6, and Apple has now formally petitioned the Supreme Court to review the contempt finding and injunction scope.

The FTC launched enforcement of the TAKE IT DOWN Act on May 19, sending warning letters to fifteen platforms — including Snapchat, TikTok, Meta, and X — that have not yet built compliant removal processes for nonconsensual intimate images and AI deepfakes.

The UN's first global cybercrime treaty has just one ratification seven months after its signing ceremony, as a January 2026 Vienna meeting collapsed over whether civil society gets any seat at the table.

Meta filed a judicial review challenging Ofcom's use of qualifying worldwide revenue to set fees and penalties under the UK's Online Safety Act, with a full hearing scheduled for October.

The FTC settled its 2022 lawsuit against Kochava and subsidiary Collective Data Solutions, barring the companies from selling precise location data without affirmative express consent in the most significant U.S. enforcement action against a location data broker.