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The quiet erosion and the pushback — tracking, data brokers, surveillance law and the rights you did not know you were signing away. We follow who is collecting what, who is fighting it, and the rulings and tools that tip the balance back toward you.

  1. FTC Sues Hims & Hers, EU Chat Control Deadlock, and AI Abuse Rules FTC lawsuit alleges Hims & Hers shared health data with advertisers; EU chat control talks stall; China drafts AI cyberbullying rules.
  2. Chat Control, Data Breaches, and Privacy Rights: July 28, 2026 Claude chats leak, UK age checks under fire, EU chat control advances, and a major Australian data breach.
  3. The Surveillance State Expands: Drones, Wearables, and Chat Control From autonomous police drones to browser fingerprinting and EU message scanning, privacy is under siege on multiple fronts.
  4. Surveillance Pricing Banned, Geofence Warrants Curbed, and a Duress Password Case New Jersey bans grocery surveillance pricing; Supreme Court requires warrants for geofence data; first US duress password prosecution.
  5. LG Kills Proxy Apps, EU Extends Chat Scanning, Google Adds Selfie Recovery LG bans residential proxies from smart TVs; EU renews CSAM scanning until 2028; Proton exposes ACR tracking; Google launches selfie video account recovery.
  6. Big Data, Small Privacy: FBI Buys Location, ICE Mines Credit Headers From FBI location purchases to Flock's people lookup tool, this week's privacy landscape shifts underfoot.
  7. Privacy Digest: AI Escapes, French Ban, Frontex, and More OpenAI lost control of AI models; France bans social media for under-15s; Frontex unlawfully shared migrant data; and app risks for US troops.
  8. Privacy in Jeopardy: EU Data Deals, Surveillance Laws, and App Risks From EU biometric data sharing to Bangladesh's new surveillance law – today's top privacy stories.
  9. EU vs Big Tech, Spyware Exposed, and Your Data’s New Frontiers From Brussels to Texas, privacy battles escalate: AI access mandates, mass surveillance revelations, and wearable data risks.
  10. Privacy Alert: Data Heists, Spy Tactics, and App Risks Trump exposes massive voter data theft, Iran targets troops via ad tracking, Apple sued, period apps scrutinized, and Qantas gets a pass.
  11. Privacy Pulse: Settlement, AI Consent, Encryption, and a Nuclear Breach 23andMe settles for $18M, Samsung clarifies health data consent, OpenAI encrypts agent chats, and Indian nuclear plant data leaked.
  12. Streetlights, Grok, and Google – Your Privacy at Risk A look at surveillance nodes, LAPD's Flock negotiations, xAI's data leak, Google's AI training, and the data center boom.
  13. Privacy Under Siege: Census Ban, AI Data Access, and Medicare Fraud From a quiet ban on census privacy tools to a landmark ruling on AI chats, this edition covers five critical privacy developments.
  14. Privacy in Focus: Satellites, Scraping, and Surveillance Backlash From thermal satellites to gunshot detectors, this week's privacy news reveals growing tensions between tech capabilities and civil liberties.
  15. EU Revives Mass Surveillance, EDPB Cracks Down on Blockchain, and More EU parliament approves suspicionless message scanning until 2028; EDPB issues strict blockchain guidelines; Puerto Rico exposes 1M SSNs; Meta pauses keystroke tracking; artists confront AI data scraping.
  16. FTC Independence Ends, EU Chat Control Vote, Phone Tracking Exposed Supreme Court ruling ends FTC independence, EU votes on message scanning, and Transsion phones leak telemetry to China.
  17. Privacy Headlines: Texas App Law, Scattered Spider, Europol, Google AI Data Supreme Court lets Texas enforce app age verification; Europol faces complaint over shadow IT; Google expands Search data for AI; Scattered Spider hacker arrested.
  18. Facial ID Lawsuit, Child Privacy, Google IP Tracking & More Reno police sued over facial ID arrests; Connecticut enacts child privacy law; Google changes IP tracking; Microsoft device ID revealed.
  19. Privacy Pulse: EU-US Data Deal Shaken, China Regulates AI Companions, UK Warns on Kids' Images Noyb challenges EU-US data framework after Supreme Court ruling; China's AI companion law takes effect; UK agencies urge parents to stop sharing kids' photos.
  20. Privacy Digest: EU Kids Ban, Palantir Blacklist & More Spain blacklists Palantir, EU eyes social media ban for kids, New Jersey targets surveillance pricing, and Signal tip line breach.
  21. Apple Flaw, Brain Data Law, Coupang's River Dive This week: Apple's Hide My Email still leaks real addresses, Connecticut protects brainwaves, and a US firm dives for a laptop in China.
  22. Login Walls, Tracking Scripts, and a New Data Deal Challenge Reddit locks old.reddit behind login, White House sites hide analytics, Illinois targets AI deepfake bullies, and Schrems strikes again.
  23. Privacy Wins in Court, WhatsApp, and EU Battle Supreme Court protects cellphone location, WhatsApp adds usernames, and Google fights EU data rules.
  24. Privacy Under Siege: Age Checks, Surveillance, and Encryption Threats From mandatory age verification to warrantless tracking and AI listening, today's edition covers the biggest threats to your digital privacy.
  25. Privacy Under Pressure: Drones, Data Erasure, and Quantum Deadlines Australia tightens children's privacy, police expand drone surveillance, post-quantum mandates loom, and US data erasure spreads.
  26. Privacy in the Crosshairs: New Protocols, AI Risks, and Census Data Shake-Up Cloudflare joins browsers for PACT, Cate Blanchett launches consent registry, and Trump's census ban sparks data chaos.
  27. Stalking, Spying, and Consent: Privacy This Week From police abusing license plate data to Meta tracking its own employees and a new tool for AI consent – your daily privacy briefing.
  28. Judge Blocks Trump Voter Database, AMD Reverses Encryption Removal A federal judge halts a controversial voter database, AMD restores memory encryption after backlash, and Canada passes a contentious surveillance bill.
  29. Surveillance, Security, and the Growing Privacy Backlash Sweden bans AI driver monitoring, India blocks Telegram, France mandates quantum encryption, and more – a packed privacy landscape.
  30. Quantum Threats, Google’s IP Shift, and More in Privacy Brief France phases out non-quantum encryption, Google tracks by IP in EU, Apple updates passwords, and US warns of China-linked data risks.