privacy

Senators Lee and Wyden introduce the Government Surveillance Reform Act to close warrantless search loopholes and ban government data broker purchases, with Section 702 set to expire on April 20, 2026.

The European Parliament voted 458 to 103 on March 11 to restrict scanning of private communications to judicially authorized, targeted investigations, rejecting years of pressure for blanket surveillance of encrypted messaging platforms.

Consumer backlash follows OpenAI's DoD agreement; Claude climbs to No. 1 on U.S. App Store as QuitGPT campaign claims 1.5 million participants.

A ransomware attack on government services giant Conduent exposed SSNs, medical records, and health insurance data for at least 25 million Americans across multiple states.

The EU Commission's Digital Omnibus proposes narrowing GDPR's personal data definition and delaying AI Act high-risk rules by 16 months. Official data protection authorities and privacy groups are opposing the changes.

Mozilla delivers on its kill switch promise: Firefox 148 adds a single toggle to block all current and future AI features, arriving February 24.

Discord will default all users to a teen-appropriate experience in early March, gating adult features behind facial age estimation or government ID verification.

Substack disclosed a breach that went undetected for four months, with a hacker leaking email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata for hundreds of thousands of users on BreachForums.