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California Court Rules SMUD Illegally Shared Customer Utility Data With Police
A decade-long dragnet of household energy use meets its match in a courtroom siding with privacy over profiling.
Ted Cruz Targets Government “Jawboning” of Big Tech, Vows Legislation
The senator’s sights are set against a digital speech crackdown he says is cloaked in national security.
Supreme Court Rejects Google’s Bid to Delay Play Store Reforms in Epic Games Antitrust Case
Google braces for a forced reckoning as its Play Store monopoly faces a court-mandated teardown.
YouTube to Pay Trump $24.5M in Censorship Lawsuit Settlement
YouTube cuts a check but keeps its content playbook sealed.
California Bill Raises Alarm Over Algorithmic Censorship, Awaits Governor Newsom’s Signature
Platforms could face million-dollar penalties not for what users say, but for how algorithms deliver it.
California Bills on Social Media and AI Chatbots Fuel Privacy Fears
The bills pit mental health urgency against the right to private digital conversations.
California Social Media Age Verification Rules Face No Constitutional Ruling Until Finalized, Ninth Circuit Says
The fight over SB 976 now moves from the courtroom to the attorney general’s rulebook.
MembersA Death, A Lawsuit, and Infinite Surveillance
The louder the calls to make AI safer, the more they sound like demands for police access and identity checks.
Ex-WhatsApp Security Chief Sues Meta Over Alleged Data Failures, Retaliation, and FTC Violations
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.
Roblox Expands AI Facial Scanning and Digital ID Amid Growing Government Pressure
Roblox’s age checks are pitched as child safety tools but double as a blueprint for an internet where logging on increasingly means showing ID.
California Advances Bills Requiring Social Media Warning Labels and AI Chatbot Conversation Monitoring
California bills AB 56 and AB 243 target Meta, Snap, and AI chatbots with warnings and mandatory conversation monitoring.
Senator Amy Klobuchar Can’t Take A Joke, Demands Censorship Law
A senator’s wounded ego just became the blueprint for federal speech policing.