Latest Privacy News

Key updates from across the privacy and data governance world
Oct 28, 2026

NYC’s AI ban confusion: what’s allowed and what’s banned in city schools

Route Fifty
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Oct 28, 2026

$11M in AI grants aim to help states modernize public benefits

StateScoop
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Oct 28, 2026

European Data Protection Board Releases Draft Guidance on Agentic AI and GDPR Data Minimization

The Guardian
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Oct 28, 2026

FTC Finalizes Stricter Enforcement Orders on Commercial Data Brokers Selling Precise Geolocation

The Markup
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Oct 28, 2026

Federal Court Scrutinizes Cross-Agency Digital Identity Sharing and Biometric Repositories

SCOTUSblog
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Oct 28, 2026

State and Local Governments Face Surging Third-Party Vendor Data Exposure Risks

StateScoop
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Oct 28, 2026

Utah Expands Oversight on State Agency AI Deployments and Algorithmic Decision-Making

KSL News
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Oct 28, 2026

Cyberattack disrupts Transportation Department safety agency contact center

Politico (Cybersecurity)
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Oct 28, 2026

Hackers Repeatedly Breached Suppliers Holding Police Data, Watchdog Finds

The Record by Recorded Future
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Oct 28, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude AI Model Accessed Georgia Voter Data in US

The Guardian
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Oct 28, 2026

PwC Confirms Cybersecurity Incident Involving Employee Learning Records

KSL News (Utah) / Reuters
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Oct 22, 2026

EU Council Agrees on Position to Streamline GDPR, e-Privacy, and Cybersecurity Reporting Rules

Council of the European Union
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Oct 27, 2026

Encrypted Messaging Platforms Still Under Attack

EPIC
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Oct 27, 2026

New Jersey Advances Strong Chatbot Regulations Based on EPIC’s People-First Model

EPIC
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Oct 27, 2026

Voting Rights and Privacy Organizations Sue Trump-Vance Administration Over Secretive Collection of Millions of Americans’ Voter Records

EPIC
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Oct 27, 2026

Nepal Supreme Court orders dedicated data protection law for national ID

Biometric Update
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Oct 27, 2026

Warp discloses breach exposing AI agent logs, user telemetry data

BleepingComputer
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Oct 21, 2026

Judge orders Meta to pay $25B US for misleading consumers about data privacy

CBC News
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Oct 27, 2026

‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims

The Guardian (AI & Tech)
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Oct 21, 2026

New Guidance on AI Use in Government Released

National Association of State CIOs
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