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A proposed class action lawsuit claims Meta scraped photos from Facebook and Instagram without permission to train its AI image-generation tools and develop an unreleased facial recognition feature called NameTag.
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The New Mexico Supreme Court fined and held defense attorney Stephen Aarons in contempt after he submitted an appeal brief in a murder case that contained fabricated police testimony and invented witnesses generated by ChatGPT. Aarons said he used the AI tool to build what he described as a bulletproof summary, but did not verify the filing's accuracy before submitting it.
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Amazon introduced a new encryption feature for Ring cameras called Throw Away the Key Encryption, which shifts some control over video access toward users. Critics argue the approach still leaves Amazon holding temporary encryption keys, stopping well short of true end-to-end privacy protection.
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An executive order directed the Department of Homeland Security to create a mechanism for states to review citizenship lists of potential voters. DHS has not yet provided those lists, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center has filed suit to stop the agency from compiling or distributing them.
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The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has issued a statement regarding an investigation it opened into Police Scotland. No further details about the investigation's findings or scope are available from this disclosure.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the company violated children's data privacy laws. The specific claims and statutes cited have not been detailed in available reporting.
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France's data protection authority, the CNIL, fined IT and engineering firm EXTIA €300,000 following complaints from former employees about violations of transparency requirements and the right to erasure under GDPR. The July 2026 decision found the company failed to respect individuals' rights over their personal data.
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Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million to settle a data privacy lawsuit in the United Kingdom. The settlement resolves legal claims against the dating app, which has faced scrutiny over how it handled users' personal data.
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The Supreme Court's ruling limiting geofence warrants is now creating uncertainty around the government's broader practice of purchasing location and other personal data from commercial brokers for use in criminal and immigration investigations.
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German privacy group noyb will file an injunction against credit agency SCHUFA after the company rejected a cease-and-desist letter over its so-called shadow database. SCHUFA has publicly denied the allegations, and noyb is also inviting people to register interest in a potential class action.
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Police departments across the United States are actively concealing their use of surveillance tools — including license plate readers, cell-site simulators, and facial recognition — by instructing officers to omit these technologies from reports and structuring records to evade public disclosure requests.
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Grindr has agreed to a $35 million settlement with UK users who sued the dating app over claims it shared their HIV status data without proper consent, in violation of British privacy law. The lawsuit was filed in April 2024.
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A federal lawsuit filed July 24, 2026 by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and three individual plaintiffs from California, Minnesota, and South Carolina alleges that the Department of Homeland Security has been surveilling protesters and bystanders across the country.
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Florida's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Netflix, alleging the company tracked children's data and violated its own privacy commitments to users. The suit centers on claims that Netflix broke promises it made about how it handles personal information.
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The FBI has issued a public warning about an active phishing campaign that exploits OAuth consent flows, a legitimate authorization mechanism used across countless apps and services. The technique is sophisticated enough to warrant a formal federal alert.
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France's data protection authority, the CNIL, fined consulting firm EXTIA €300,000 for failing to respect individuals' rights under data protection law. The penalty reflects a formal finding that the company did not meet its legal obligations toward the people whose data it held.
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The Trump administration plans to challenge Australia's proposed digital platform rules, which would require social media companies to remove harmful content, give users the ability to opt out of algorithmic feeds, and expose platforms to fines exceeding $100 million for violations.
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Roughly 1,000 pages of federal records released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, obtained through litigation against CMS, reveal that Medicare's AI-driven prior authorization program, WISeR, has produced widespread delays and denials of medical care. The documents include contracts with tech companies, internal status reports, and complaints from healthcare providers about the program's performance.
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Grindr has agreed to a £26 million settlement to resolve data privacy claims brought against the dating and social networking app. The settlement suggests the company faced significant legal exposure over how it handled user data.
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Meta is facing a lawsuit alleging it used facial recognition technology to train systems connected to its smart glasses. The case centers on how the company may have collected or processed biometric data in developing the wearable product.
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Chemical and technology conglomerate BASF has filed a lawsuit against Apple, alleging infringement related to facial recognition technology. The dispute centers on intellectual property claims connected to Apple's face-scanning capabilities.
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Uber has been hit with a $966 million fine, a penalty that is drawing attention to how companies govern agentic AI systems and the accountability gaps those systems can create.
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Anthropic has reached a $1.5 billion settlement over its use of pirated books to train its AI, with a $3,000 payment set per book. Authors are now in conflict with publishers over how that money will be divided.
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A new enforcement advisory has put data brokers on notice about submitting incorrect information in their registration filings. The advisory signals that regulators are tightening scrutiny not just on whether brokers register, but on the accuracy of what they report.
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