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Temu, the Chinese-owned e-commerce platform, has agreed to accept data privacy restrictions as part of a settlement with the state of Texas. The terms of the lawsuit and specific curbs were not detailed in available reporting.
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Temu, the Chinese e-commerce platform, has agreed to data privacy restrictions to settle a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas, according to court documents. The terms of the settlement impose new limits on how the company handles user data.
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Temu, the Chinese online retailer, has agreed to accept data privacy restrictions as part of a settlement with the state of Texas, according to court documents. Terms of the agreement were not detailed in the available reporting.
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Norway's data protection authority fined Xandr, the Microsoft-owned ad tech company, €8.6 million for unlawfully processing personal data, including sensitive categories. The case began with a 2020 complaint from the Norwegian Consumer Council and centered on violations of GDPR's core rules on lawful basis and special-category data.
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Open-weight AI models can be silently modified to carry backdoors, and one common method — called abliteration — strips out a model's refusal behavior by editing the underlying weights. Because these modified versions circulate freely, users often download and run them without knowing what has been changed.
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A federal district court has allowed a lawsuit against the Trump administration's social media surveillance program to proceed, rejecting the government's motion to dismiss. The case, brought by three major labor unions, challenges a program that monitors the online speech of noncitizens living in the United States.
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The League of Women Voters, EPIC, and LULAC have sued the Trump-Vance administration over what they describe as a secretive and unlawful effort to gather sensitive personal data on millions of American voters into a centralized national database.
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European Union regulators have opened their first enforcement cases under the AI Act, targeting OpenAI and Anthropic. The move marks the law's first real test as a regulatory tool against major AI developers.
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The EFF and ACLU of Wisconsin have petitioned the state Supreme Court to require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching automated license plate reader databases. The case involves ALPR systems operating in Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay, and is brought on behalf of a religious organization and an individual pastor.
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OpenAI has filed a federal court allegation that a former employee transferred over 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account before joining Apple, and later presented that material to senior Apple leadership. The filing surfaced hours before the two companies were set to appear in court in San Jose.
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A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against Flock Safety and a local sheriff's office, alleging that automated license plate reader cameras were used to track and monitor him without a warrant, reportedly in retaliation for a prior excessive force lawsuit he brought against the department.
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A lawsuit against the Reno Police Department over a facial recognition-linked arrest is turning on whether officers received adequate training in using the technology. The case puts departmental accountability for biometric tools at the center of the legal dispute.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has revealed that the spyware vendor behind a surveillance operation run by the previous government had direct access to the data it collected. Tusk, who ordered the investigation, described the program as among the worst political scandals in Poland since communism ended.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation secured a court win in its lawsuit challenging a government surveillance program called 'Catch and Revoke,' which EFF says was designed to monitor and penalize people for criticism of the government expressed online.
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Civil-rights organizations have filed in a lawsuit challenging an arrest made on the basis of facial recognition. The case, covered in a multi-part series, is drawing organized advocacy attention.
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The European Union has initiated its first enforcement actions under the AI Act, following incidents involving AI agents. The move marks a concrete step from regulation on paper to regulation with consequences.
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The UK has issued guidance governing the use of facial recognition technology in immigration enforcement contexts. The guidance sets out how and when the technology can be applied by authorities carrying out immigration-related functions.
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Doctoralia, described as the world's largest health appointment platform, removed web trackers that were sharing data with social media companies following an investigation by The Markup. The company framed the removal as a precautionary measure.
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US law enforcement, including the FBI, is tracking two converging threats: people using generative AI tools to help plan terrorist attacks, and a separate strain of extremism targeting AI technology itself. A May 2025 car bombing outside a California fertility clinic reportedly involved the suspect using an AI chatbot during planning.
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The EU's AI Act is facing its first real enforcement challenge following incidents in lab settings, marking an early test of whether the regulation's oversight mechanisms will hold up in practice.
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Canada's Privacy Commissioner has closed an investigation into WestJet following a cyberattack, concluding the airline has put adequate security measures in place. The decision signals regulatory satisfaction with the airline's response to the incident.
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The UK government has established rules governing the use of live facial recognition technology in immigration enforcement operations. The framework sets out conditions under which biometric surveillance can be deployed against people in immigration-related contexts.
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A podcast episode revisits the legal battle that secured encryption as a protected form of speech in the United States. The Bernstein v. Department of Justice case, fought three decades ago by a small group of advocates, overturned the government's attempt to regulate encryption as a weapon and shaped the private communications infrastructure people rely on today.
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The White House has formed a 'Super Intelligence' task force focused on AI safety, according to its vice chair. The group plans to coordinate with law enforcement, evaluate AI-related risks, and hold companies accountable to safety commitments they have already made.
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