A law passed in 1968 is apparently driving a new surge in privacy violation settlements. That’s according to new research published Monday (Oct. 5) by privacy platform Privado AI, showing that American companies are on track this year to pay upwards of $1.4 billion to settle claims that...
Amazon blocked Meta’s new personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, from its eCommerce site, GeekWire reported Sunday (Sept. 20). Meta never informed Amazon that its Muse agent would access the online marketplace, the report said. In addition, the agent does not identify itself as it browses,...
The technology industry’s campaign to block state regulation of artificial intelligence is losing political force as public anxiety and election-year pressures embolden lawmakers to advance new restrictions. State legislators are pursuing measures covering frontier-model safety, independent audits, children’s interactions with chatbots, data privacy, and the...
The Federal Trade Commission is considering an enforcement policy that would put businesses on notice that using personal data to set individualized prices without adequate disclosure could violate federal consumer protection law. The proposed policy statement targets what is sometimes called “surveillance pricing”: using information...
July 14, 2026
Fraudsters and privacy-conscious consumers have one thing in common. Neither wants to be easily found. For years, that overlap didn’t matter much. Privacy-minded consumers wanted to limit their data exposure and control how merchants stored their credentials. Fraudsters wanted to hide stolen identities and card numbers. Different motives, different corners of the system. Digital wallets […]
April 24, 2026
The internet had native formats for video, audio and files. It did not have one for money. Stablecoins changed that. They represent internet-native dollars that move like MP3s and work...
March 17, 2026
Financial data now circulates through banks, FinTech platforms and intermediaries in ways that stretch beyond the structure of existing privacy law, banking and FinTech executives said Tuesday (March 17), raising...
January 01, 2026
A new presidential administration in the United States and a new executive commission in the European Union transformed technology regulation in 2025. They each had different views from their predecessors...
October 07, 2026
U.S. Bank introduced a service called Project 360, designed to help customers protect their privacy, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 7) press release. Project 360 lets users monitor credit activity, identify threats to their privacy and respond when personal info might be exposed, per the release. “Fraud, scams and the exposure of personal information have […]
October 05, 2026
A law passed in 1968 is apparently driving a new surge in privacy violation settlements. That’s according to new research published Monday (Oct. 5) by privacy platform Privado AI, showing that American companies...
September 21, 2026
Amazon blocked Meta’s new personal artificial intelligence agent, Muse, from its eCommerce site, GeekWire reported Sunday (Sept. 20). Meta never informed Amazon that its Muse agent would access the online...
April 06, 2026
Small businesses are increasingly at risk for litigation related to website tracking practices. That’s according to a recent report from cyber risk analytics company KYND, which found a steep rise in privacy lawsuits...
