Data Privacy

Privacy laws, data collection rules, and consumer information rights.

2026
4 items
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May 22
FTC fines Cox Media Group $930K for fake AI listening ad service
FTC fines three companies $930K for selling fake AI voice surveillance ads
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1
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5 figures
May 13
Federal judge quashes DOJ subpoena for transgender youth medical records
Trump-appointed judge blocks DOJ demand for children's transgender medical records
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+3
8 figures
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Mar 10
Connecticut signs sweeping voter privacy law as DOJ sues for data
DOJ is 23rd lawsuit demanding SSNs and license numbers from Democratic states
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+2
7 figures
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Mar 4
ICE bypasses Fourth Amendment by buying phone location data without warrants, Wyden reveals
Wyden''s letter documents ICE''s return to practices the OIG found illegal in 2023
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+5
10 figures
2025
3 items
Sep 2
Disney pays $10 million for turning kids' cartoons into surveillance goldmine
Disney pays $10M for illegally harvesting kids' data worth billions in ads
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4 figures
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Feb 21
Federal courts block DOGE from accessing Treasury payment data for 300 million Americans
Nineteen state attorneys general sued to stop Elon Musk's team from reading Social Security numbers, bank accounts, and tax data stored in the Bureau of Fiscal Service — and two federal judges agreed
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5 figures

People

Key figures in Data Privacy

38 figures

Andrew Ferguson

Chair, Federal Trade Commission (2025–present)

Pam Bondi

U.S. Attorney General (confirmed January 2025)

1010 Digital Works LLC

Defendant, settling party ($25,000)

Bob Iger

Disney CEO

Brian Schatz

U.S. Senator (D-HI), Senate Commerce and Appropriations Committees

CMG Media Corporation / Cox Media Group

Defendant, primary settling party ($880,000)

Cobwebs Technologies

Developer of the Webloc location tracking product licensed to Penlink

Donald Trump

President of the United States (2025-present)

Ed Markey

U.S. Senator (D-MA), author of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act

Elizabeth Warren

U.S. Senator (D-MA), Senate Banking and Armed Services Committees

Elon Musk

DOGE leader

Harmeet Dhillon

Assistant U.S. Attorney General, Civil Rights Division

Jeannette Vargas

U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York

John Roberts

U.S. Supreme Court, author of Carpenter v. United States (2018)

Joseph Cuffari

DHS Inspector General

Josh Golin

Executive Director of Fairplay (child advocacy organization)

Katelyn Medeiros

Rhode Island Child Advocate (2026)

Kevin Love Hubbard

Lawyers' Committee for Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)

Kristi Noem

Former DHS Secretary

Lindsay James

New York Attorney General

Lynette Labinger

ACLU of Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)

Mark McElroy

U.S. District Judge, District of Rhode Island (Trump appointee, confirmed September 2019)

Marsha Blackburn

U.S. Senator (R-TN), Senate Commerce Committee

Martin Looney

Connecticut Senate President

MindSift LLC

Defendant, settling party ($25,000)

Miriam Weizenbaum

Lawyers' Committee for Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)

Neal Mohan

YouTube CEO

Ned Lamont

Governor of Connecticut

Paul Engelmayer

U.S. District Judge, Southern District of New York

Penlink

Nebraska-based surveillance technology company, holder of ICE location data contract

Reed O'Connor

Chief U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Texas (George W. Bush appointee)

Robert Chesney

Professor of Law, University of Texas School of Law; co-director, Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Ron Wyden

U.S. Senator (D-OR), Senate Intelligence Committee member, author of the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

Scott Bessent

Treasury Secretary

Scott Kupor

Stephanie Thomas

Connecticut Secretary of State

Will Hughes

Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut

William Tong

Connecticut Attorney General