Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan voted against a consumer-data privacy bill while holding up to $280,000 in Apple, Alphabet, and Meta stock.
Freedom Caucus lawmakers cheered the House Appropriations Committee advancing an amendment to a major funding bill that would protect Americans’ privacy against data brokers.
The Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) on Tuesday announced it has opened an investigation into Chinese e-commerce titan Temu for allegedly violating Nigeria’s data protection laws.
Protecting personal privacy from public intrusions in the digital space will underpin an address by Prince Harry when he fronts a Washington, DC, summit this spring.
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) have proposed legislation that would give drivers more control over their personal data collected by auto manufacturers without drivers’ consent.
China intercepted “vast amounts” of the most classified documents for several years by buying the data centre, Dominic Cummings has claimed.
The United Kingdom (UK) agreed Tuesday to drop its demand that Apple provide Americans’ encrypted data. President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, confirmed the backdown.
Prior to the 2024 election, a non-profit group called VOT-ER got 50,000 medical professionals to target patients in hospitals to register to vote. That’s among the bombshell findings in a new book by former House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz.
South Korea’s data privacy watchdog agency, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), said on Thursday that China’s DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) transferred user data to companies in China and the United States without obtaining proper consent.
The Chinese Communist government threw a fit Tuesday after South Korea banned China’s new DeepSeek artificial intelligence (AI) on security and data privacy grounds.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced on Tuesday that his office is suing the Chinese mobile phone shopping app Temu.
Republican lawmakers are attempting to ban the use of a Chinese-owned tutoring company by U.S. military service members and their families.
Conservatives are banding together to urge Speaker Mike Johnson against rushing through a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without measures to protect American citizens from a weaponized Deep State.
Sen. Tim Scott wrote to the Biden administration on Friday, blasting them for their alleged “flagrant violation” of Americans’ privacy.
House Judiciary Committee leaders sent letters to several financial institutions on Monday, demanding to know what degree they worked with the FBI to collect Americans’ private data.
The House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan requesting documents and communications surrounding the bank’s decision to provide the FBI with their customers’ private banking info “voluntarily and without any legal process.”
Socialist Spain is leading the way in attempts to ban private messaging technology in the European Union, a leaked survey revealed.
Facebook owner Meta was slapped with a record €1.2 billion by EU regulators on Monday over transfers of European data to the United States.
Italy’s data protection agency announced AI bot ChatGPT will be blocked from the country until it complies with data privacy rules.
The Biden administration is reportedly worried a 2008 spy law permitting warrantless wiretaps will not be renewed by Congress, as lawmakers on both the left and right have expressed privacy concerns.
All Britons should delete TikTok off their phones so as to protect themselves from being spied upon by Communist China, a senior MP has said.
The Dutch government has reportedly told public authorities to refrain from using Chinese social media platform TikTok over data security fears.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Making Money,” Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH) said that what TikTok does with data “isn’t entirely different than what the Twitter files are saying was going on with the United States government.” Davidson
Critics have slammed a new European Commission plan to monitor private communications online in the name of protecting children from abuse.
The European Union is aiming to set up a medical super-database containing the medical information of citizens from across the multinational bloc.
Weibo, a Chinese microblogging platform, announced on Thursday plans to publish the IP addresses of all Weibo users both on their individual account pages and whenever they post comments, stating it was part of an effort to prevent “bad behavior” online, Reuters reported.
Liu Jiacheng, a member of China’s National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), recently submitted a proposal to the body suggesting Beijing help fight human trafficking by establishing a “nationwide DNA database for kindergartens and primary schools as soon as possible,” the Global Times reported Sunday.
Yahoo, Inc. announced on Tuesday it has withdrawn its services from China, effective immediately – in fact, effective the previous day, November 1.
Security breaches in the EU’s vaccine passport system has resulted in health passes being granted to Spongebob, Hitler, and Mickey Mouse.
UK spy agencies have inked a billion-dollar deal with Amazon to host classified information on the tech giant’s cloud computing apparatus.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s personal vaccine passport QR code has been leaked, raising privacy concerns about the system.
The NHS has admitted that it is sharing facial recognition with police from the NHS app, which has been used as a vaccine passport
Health regulators across five countries are currently investigating a prenatal test owned by the Chinese company BGI for possible violations of local data privacy laws, including allegedly sharing women’s genetic information with the Chinese military for unknown research purposes, Reuters reported Monday.
The Health Ministry of Indonesia said on Tuesday it was investigating an alleged security breach of its Chinese coronavirus contact tracing app that potentially exposed the personal identification information of more than 1.3 million users.
Britain’s NHS reportedly falsified up to 700,000 vaccine passport records since the beginning of the controversial programme.
Transgender activists in Italy have objected to the Wuhan coronavirus “Green Pass”, claiming it would reveal information on their gender.
Apple and Google have blocked an update to the UK government’s coronavirus tracing app as it violated their privacy rules.
The European Commission unveiled its proposal for a coronavirus vaccine passport scheme on Wednesday, with the hopes of opening up travel within the bloc by the summer.
The CEO of an American data privacy firm said that it will be impossible for governments to keep personal health data private when they introduce coronavirus vaccine passports and that such a system could lead to “algorithmic discrimination”. In an
Singapore police used coronavirus contact tracing data from the government’s TraceTogether app to investigate a murder case sometime in the past several months, Singaporean government ministers admitted on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post.
