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The FTC advises vehicle owners to erase personal information from connected vehicle systems and accounts before selling or donating a car.
11/9/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
U.S. parents use Life360 and Apple's Find My to monitor children from infancy through college, a 2020s trend experts say can heighten anxiety and limit independence.
11/9/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
Louisiana and Oklahoma will put comprehensive consumer privacy laws into effect on January 1, 2027, requiring qualifying businesses serving residents in those states to meet new data protection duties.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
ICE reportedly used drones, license plate readers, financial tracking, and other tools to monitor protesters and community activity in Minnesota during the 2020s.
11/9/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
In 2026, Pew Research Center mapped Flock Safety license plate cameras across the United States, finding more than 100,000 mapped devices and substantial geographic concentration.
11/9/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
Privacy International is compiling a global map of school facial recognition use, documenting cases in India, the United States, Serbia, China, and Russia amid growing calls for student protections.
11/9/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
In 2026, iVerify reported spyware infections across scanned consumer and enterprise devices, with criminal use of Coruna and DarkSword driving many iOS compromises.
11/10/2026 • Cybersecurity Tech (Privacy-Relevant) • General
On October 15, NEAR AI enabled Brave Leo users to run GLM 5.3 Flash private inference through attested hardware enclaves in NEAR AI Cloud.
11/9/2026 • Privacy Technology & AI • General
Who Gives a Crap disclosed in November that a former US marketing provider's breach, occurring October 30 through November 1, exposed customer contact and address data in Australia, the UK, and the US.
11/9/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
In July 2026, Sabrina Ross's office at the California Privacy Protection Agency launched its first formal privacy audit of gig economy platforms, examining consumer and worker data in California.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
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Today, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU filed a Sixth Circuit brief challenging police searches of automated license plate reader records linked to robberies near Cleveland, Ohio.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
On October 29, 2026, General Motors agreed with 35 states and the District of Columbia to pay $220 million and strengthen controls on driver-data sharing.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
The FCC, Pennsylvania, and France are changing telemarketing privacy requirements, including consent withdrawal, covered messaging, and calling schedules, across the United States and France.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
Fireworks disclosed in November that October cyberattacks exposed customer billing and AI-related data at the San Mateo company, and affected customers were notified.
11/10/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
NoName057(16) recently published personal details of 18 European officials and journalists on a dark web site, prompting an investigation in Italy.
11/9/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
A guide for UK teachers and students explains the privacy risks of school facial recognition and recommends safeguards against biometric surveillance.
11/9/2026 • Privacy Technology & AI • General
Palantir urged health minister Zubir Ahmed in February to consider extending its NHS data platform to GP records in England.
11/9/2026 • Privacy Technology & AI • General
On November 10, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced in Sacramento that Federal Express would change practices and pay nearly $3 million over CCPA violations.
11/10/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
In 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., rejected newly created Alien Tort Statute claims and ended Falun Gong practitioners' case alleging Cisco aided abuses through China's Golden Shield surveillance system.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
The Legal Action Center presented guidance for syringe services programs in a report with no stated publication date, addressing US privacy law and recommending reduced collection of participant data.
11/10/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
EFF describes digital surveillance risks and calls for legal safeguards as technologies evolve in the United States and internationally.
11/10/2026 • Data Collection & Surveillance Practices • General
ESET reported in 2025 that Russian-linked Turla hackers used Cereal malware to intercept government email on servers in Romania and Kazakhstan.
11/10/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
Vanderbilt University warned students and employees Monday of a cyberattack affecting campus systems in Nashville while investigating BYOD's unverified claims of stolen data.
11/9/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
After Nigeria's 2021 Twitter suspension, a comparison of five VPNs assessed Lagos speeds, privacy controls, and Nigerian server access for users in Nigeria.
11/9/2026 • Cybersecurity Tech (Privacy-Relevant) • General
Mittwald CM Service disclosed Saturday that an attacker exploited an MCP-server flaw to access 56 customer projects at its German hosting service, with AI involvement unconfirmed.
11/9/2026 • Data Breaches & Exposure Events • General
Anthropic introduced a beta personal-finance hub for paid Claude subscribers in the United States, linking bank and credit-card accounts through Plaid for transaction analysis.
11/10/2026 • Privacy Technology & AI • GeneralAdd'l Coverage: Aol
In 2025, the U.S. Joint Economic Committee examined Match Group's biometric verification and scam-detection safeguards across Tinder, Hinge, Match, and Plenty of Fish.
11/10/2026 • Risk & Harm & Societal Impact • General
New York Attorney General Letitia James and three other state attorneys general announced a settlement Friday with Perry Johnson companies over a 2023 breach that exposed medical and personal data across the United States.
11/9/2026 • Other • General
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A newly disclosed OpenSSH and musl flaw lets attackers bypass password-authentication restrictions on certain Alpine Linux and other musl-based Linux accounts.
11/10/2026 • Other • General
On November 10, 2026, Ouster's San Francisco announcement with Indra described tolling lidar deployments and only a general AI-related data privacy risk.
11/10/2026 • Other • General
China uses AI-powered facial recognition to surveil and detain Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, a practice cited in the U.S. debate over advanced chip controls.
11/10/2026 • Other • General
Recent attacks on refrigeration systems in France exploited internet-connected controls, while U.S. officials have warned that IoT devices can enable surveillance and location tracking.
11/9/2026 • Other • General
CVS website and app users in the United States may seek payments by a November deadline under a settlement concerning alleged disclosure of personal and health information.
11/9/2026 • Regulation & Law & Enforcement • General
Meta Platforms' past data-privacy and child-protection concerns shaped questions about trust in its Muse AI agent after the third-quarter results, across its social platforms.
11/9/2026 • Other • General
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