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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.
A new GOP-backed bill would create a national consumer privacy framework but preempt stronger state laws like California's CCPA, reigniting a years-long battle over whether federal rules should be a floor or a ceiling.
The Commission says its new age-verification app is ready for deployment, but researchers and privacy advocates are already flagging security and platform-dependence concerns.
Meta will strip end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages on May 8, citing low adoption, just eleven days before the Take It Down Act compels platforms to police intimate content.
New regulations effective April 10 ban algorithmic price discrimination and merchant coercion on Chinese internet platforms, capping a year-long crackdown on subsidy-fueled competition among Alibaba, JD.com, and Meituan.
The warrantless surveillance program authorized under FISA Section 702 is set to expire on April 20, with Congress divided between a clean reauthorization backed by the White House and reform proposals that would require warrants for searches of Americans' communications.