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Data protection law, surveillance and the fight over personal information, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
Governor Newsom signed a slate of 12 bills targeting online child safety, including measures the Electronic Frontier Foundation backs for teaching digital skills alongside a social media ban the group opposes.
Ring's new Throw Away the Key Encryption (TAKE) system limits how long the company holds decryption keys, but security experts say the approach still leaves significant privacy gaps compared to genuine end-to-end encryption.
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.
