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Hate handing over your Social Security number? Don’t worry! The US Supreme Court just handed over wholesale access to the (formerly, Musk’s) Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) because…well, why not? DOGE asked, which was reason enough. Plus, in additional recognition of its specialness, they also paused a lower court order requiring DOGE to respond to a lawsuit request for documents. Apparently, unlike other government agencies, DOGE doesn’t need to comply with federal records requests.

Researchers at a Madrid science institute discovered Meta and its Russian counterpart Yandex were able to evade privacy protections of Android users by funneling cookies – from websites that contain tracking scripts – to their own apps. This enabled them to analyze web data and make it available to their own apps by bypassing user permissions, incognito mode and working around device IDs.

Seems there are some holes in Switzerland’s legendary commitment to privacy. The country is poised to change encryption laws that govern VPNs by extending surveillance obligations and requiring companies to ID their users. This would undermine VPNs’ strict no-log policies.

Don’t need that data? Best policy is to dump it, according to Biancco’s 2025 State of Data Sanitation Report on how global companies handle end-of-life (EOL) and redundant, obsolete, or trivial (ROT) data. With AI and IoT now collecting more data than ever, knowing when and how to dispose of it is crucial since the more data you hold the riskier it is. And, while the focus of cybersecurity is often on breaches and hacks, proper cleaning and disposal are critical. This requires first knowing what you have, though according... Read More >

In the seven years since GDPR was enacted, five of the ten most popular platforms – Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter) received fines totaling €3.9 billion (~$4.5 billion). A third of those fines were related to the handling of children’s data. No prize for guessing that Meta had the most, according to a report from cybersecurity company, Surfshark.

Reason is OpenAI is fighting a court order that requires those chats be stored due to a New York Times copyright lawsuit against the company.