An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these scams start, and more than half of that money was stolen in scams began on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram.

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Explore how geofence warrants and AI-assisted searches challenge the Fourth Amendment. Can 18th-century privacy laws survive 21st-century digital surveillance?

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Beyond the "headline breach," modern enterprises face a persistent threat: steady-state data leakage. Learn why traditional privacy definitions fail and how "authorized" data flows in workplace apps create continuous legal and operational risk.

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China-sponsored threat groups like Salt Typhoon and Flax Typhoon are increasingly relying on multiple massive botnets comprising edge and IoT devices to run their cyber espionage and network intrusion campaigns, CISA and other security agencies say. The use of such "covert networks" makes it more difficult to detect and mitigate their campaigns.

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The intersection of constitutional law and cybersecurity enforcement, specifically the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial in regulatory data privacy cases.
Central Conflict: Whether federal agencies (like the FCC, SEC, or FTC) can administratively impose monetary penalties for data misuse without a jury, or if such actions are "Suits at common law" requiring Article III court proceedings.

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A group of unauthorized users reportedly has gained access to Anthropic’s controversial Claude Mythos Preview AI frontier model despite the AI vendor’s efforts to keep it out of public hands by limiting the organizations that can use it. Bloomberg reported that the unnamed group had tried multiple ways to gain access to the AI model..

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Data breach litigation faces a valuation crisis as courts and the Trump v. IRS case grapple with the "concrete harm" requirement and the actual dollar value of privacy.

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NIST said it overwhelmed by the surge in the number of CVEs submissions in recent years, so it is paring back the analysis work it does on the dangerous security flaws. Security experts say the number of new vulnerabilities detected will only grow during the AI era and that the private sector will need to pick up the slack left by NIST's decision.

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The dark web is often misunderstood, but it plays an important role in both privacy technology and cybercrime activity. In this episode, Tom Eston speaks with cybersecurity researcher and educator John Hammond about what the dark web actually is and how it has evolved in recent years. The discussion covers underground marketplaces, ransomware leak sites, […]

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How modern age-verification laws, like the California Digital Age Assurance Act, dismantle the principle of data minimization by mandating the collection of sensitive personal data, effectively turning "don't know" into "must know" and knowledge into liability.

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On March 26, Anthropic confirmed the existence of Claude Mythos, an unreleased AI model described internally as "a step change" in capabilities, after a data leak exposed approximately 3,000 unpublished assets in a publicly searchable, unencrypted data store (Fortune, March 26, 2026). The leak was not a sophisticated intrusion. A toggle switch in Anthropic's content management system was left in the wrong position, setting digital assets to public by default (Fortune, March 26, 2026). Among the exposed materials were internal assessments describing Mythos as posing "unprecedented cybersecurity risks" and being "far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities" (World Today News, March 2026).

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Akamai researchers saw a 245% spike in cyberattacks in the first two weeks after the start of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran as Iranian nation-state groups and independent hacktivists launch increasingly decentralized and destructive cyberattacks, which are expected to increase as long as the kinetic battle continues.

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AI tools may better protect children online by detecting harmful content without the privacy risks of strict age verification laws.

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AI makes it easy to find executive PII online. Security teams must reduce digital exposure before attackers use AI to surface sensitive data.

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The FBI, CISA, and NSA reportedly are investigating the hack by an unnamed "sophisticated" actor of a FBI surveillance system that holds sensitive information. The breach carries the hallmarks of Chinese nation-state groups and comes amid concerns about attacks in the wake of the war against Iran and the shrinking of the federal cybersecurity apparatus.

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Shadow AI leaks data to uncontrolled external systems and spreads virally across organizations, requiring user training and compliant alternatives rather than prohibition. 

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Explore how advancements in surveillance infrastructure and the democratization of intelligence have transformed espionage.

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TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy update went viral—especially language about sensitive data like immigration status and precise location—and argue much of it reflects longstanding practices and required California […]

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An single threat actor used AI tools to create and run a campaign that compromised more then 600 Fortinet FortiGate appliances around the world over five weeks, according to Amazon threat researchers, the latest example of how cybercriminals are using the technology in their attacks.

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Explore the evolving landscape of privacy and security in the age of AI. This article examines the cultural and regulatory differences between the U.S. and Europe, the limitations of current policies, and the imperative for architectural solutions to ensure that autonomous systems can uphold privacy standards.

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