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Data protection law, surveillance and the fight over personal information, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and allied organizations argue that California's newly signed AB 1709 restricts young people's access to essential online communities and information rather than protecting them.
A review of Model Context Protocol integrations across customer environments uncovered widespread security gaps, with personal tokens and missing authorization controls creating blind spots in enterprise AI deployments.
Valve's privacy-conscious approach to Australia's new age verification requirement relies on bank cards, but spotty debit card support and low credit card adoption among young players are creating friction.
Law enforcement agencies nationwide are deploying surveillance technologies like automated license plate readers, cell-site simulators, and facial recognition systems while actively concealing their deployment from the public and courts.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has named Access Now, 7amleh, DeFlock, and New Media Rights as recipients of its 2026 Awards, recognizing their efforts to protect digital freedoms and advance technology that serves justice and innovation.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation released roughly 1,000 pages of government records revealing widespread operational failures, patient harm, and perverse financial incentives in the WISeR program, which uses artificial intelligence to evaluate medical service requests for Medicare beneficiaries.
Two major states have taken executive action against ALPR networks in recent days, signaling growing momentum against mass surveillance infrastructure across the country.
Meta ended its relationship with Kenyan contractor Sama less than two months after reports surfaced that workers had viewed intimate content captured by Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
