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Police in Bradford used facial recognition technology in an operation that led to 28 arrests. The deployment appears to be part of ongoing live facial recognition use by UK law enforcement in public spaces.
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The FTC is distributing more than $2.7 million to consumers harmed by Handy Technologies, now operating as Angi Services, following a January 2025 enforcement action brought jointly with the New York Attorney General. The company allegedly advertised earnings that most workers never saw and buried fees and fines that quietly reduced their pay.
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Florida's Attorney General reached a resolution with Roku over an enforcement action related to children's data privacy. The agreement concludes a regulatory proceeding that targeted how the streaming platform handled data belonging to younger users.
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HYBE, the South Korean entertainment company behind major K-pop acts, disclosed in its 2025 sustainability report that it is using facial recognition technology at concerts and pursuing counterfeit merchandise enforcement, among other operational and governance initiatives.
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EPIC joined the ACLU, NYCLU, Legal Aid Society, and other civil liberties and criminal defense groups in filing an amicus brief with the New York Court of Appeals in New York v. Morris. The brief argues against broad 'all-content' search warrants that would allow law enforcement to access everything on a person's cell phone during a criminal investigation.
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The Supreme Court ruled in Chatrie v. United States on the constitutionality of geofence warrants, which compel tech companies to hand over location data for all devices near a specific place and time. The decision represents a significant moment for digital privacy rights and Fourth Amendment protections in the context of modern law enforcement tools.
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The Supreme Court's Chatrie decision addressed how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital-age surveillance, with analysts describing the ruling as a limited but meaningful check on law enforcement's ability to use technology to override privacy protections.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has issued a ruling on geofence warrants, a surveillance method that allows law enforcement to collect location data from all devices near a specified place and time. The decision addresses privacy protections around this practice under federal law.
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission has released its 2025 annual report alongside findings from a survey focused on 'sharenting' — the practice of parents posting photos and information about their children online. The report covers the DPC's enforcement and regulatory activity for the year.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that cellphone users' location history is protected under constitutional privacy guarantees, a decision that limits how law enforcement can access that data. The ruling extends Fourth Amendment protections to a category of digital records that courts had long treated as fair game.
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The US Supreme Court's ruling in Trump v. Slaughter puts the FTC's independence in doubt, threatening the legal foundation of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The current adequacy decision depends heavily on the FTC acting as an independent enforcement body, a status that may no longer hold.
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that significantly curtails the independence of federal agencies like the FTC by expanding presidential control over them. The decision, which drew a sharp division among the justices, was condemned by EPIC as a threat to consumer and data protection enforcement.
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The Supreme Court has significantly curtailed law enforcement's ability to use geofence warrants, which allow investigators to obtain location data on every device near a crime scene. The Court stopped short of declaring the practice unconstitutional outright, leaving some room for their continued use under certain conditions.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has placed limits on geofence warrants, a law enforcement tool that collects location data from all mobile devices in a defined area during a set time window. The ruling addresses longstanding concerns about the privacy implications of dragnet-style digital surveillance tied to cellphone data.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a divided ruling, sided with phone location privacy rights in a case involving geofence warrants, which allow law enforcement to collect location data on all devices near a specific place and time.
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A man was arrested by police using facial recognition technology, according to a BBC report. Few details about the case are available, but it represents another instance of law enforcement acting on a facial recognition match.
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The Supreme Court has ruled that geofence warrants are subject to constitutional privacy protections, marking a significant limit on a surveillance tool that law enforcement has used to identify suspects by pulling location data from everyone near a given place and time.
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South Africa's data privacy law, POPIA, can require mandatory breach reporting even when personal information is exposed by something as routine as a misdirected email, according to attorneys citing an enforcement notice against a Johannesburg college. The case confirms that accidental internal disclosures are not exempt from the law's reporting obligations.
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A policy advocate is urging lawmakers at all levels of government to move quickly to regulate armed drones and robots used by domestic law enforcement, arguing that technology companies are outpacing any existing legal framework for when and how lethal or harmful force can be deployed remotely.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has canceled a contract for phone tracking services following pressure from lawmakers who raised concerns about the arrangement. The move comes amid broader scrutiny of how federal law enforcement agencies acquire and use commercial surveillance tools.
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The International Association of Privacy Professionals has published the first installment of a multi-part series examining the current landscape of consumer privacy rights enforcement, surveying how regulators are pursuing compliance and penalizing violations across jurisdictions.
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Two teenagers, Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, were convicted for a cyberattack on Transport for London that caused significant financial damage. Reporting now reveals that both individuals had come to the attention of law enforcement well before the attack took place.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has found that law enforcement agencies using Flock Safety's automated license plate reader systems are running scans against federal hotlists that include targets designated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Local police departments may be participating in immigration enforcement through this system without the public being aware.
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