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Latest News in Cybersecurity & Privacy
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February 25, 2026
FTC Backs Age Verification Use With New Enforcement Stance
The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it won't use its enforcement authority under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act to bring actions against certain websites and services that collect kids' personal information without parental consent for the sole purpose of verifying users' ages.
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February 25, 2026
Social Media Contributed To Mental Health Issues, Jury Hears
A therapist who treated the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial alleging Instagram and YouTube harm children's mental health told a California jury Wednesday that social media use contributed to the plaintiff's struggles, while acknowledging that social media addiction is not a diagnosis formally recognized in her field.
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February 25, 2026
Senate Bill Would Make Gov't Admit It Perused Your Emails
Courts issue hundreds of thousands of criminal surveillance orders each year, allowing law enforcement to spy on suspects beyond the bounds of what is normally legal, but a bill reintroduced Wednesday in the U.S. Senate aims to shed light on the process by informing someone when the government wanted their digital information.
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February 25, 2026
Nvidia Says YouTubers' AI Scraping Suit Undermines Fair Use
Nvidia urged a California federal judge to nix a lawsuit alleging it circumvented measures to scrape data from YouTube videos to train its AI model, arguing Monday the Digital Millennium Copyright Act doesn't prohibit circumvention of measures that prevent copying — which allows the public to make fair use of copyrighted works.
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February 25, 2026
T-Mobile Tells Justices FCC's Fines On 'Unsound' Footing
T-Mobile waded Wednesday into a high-stakes U.S. Supreme Court fight between its rivals AT&T and Verizon and the Federal Communications Commission, telling the justices that an FCC theory that companies facing penalties can eventually get a jury trial was "unsound."
Areas of Coverage
- AGENCIES
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal Trade Commission
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of Justice
- State and international privacy regulators
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- Cybersecurity Enhancement Act
- Cybersecurity Act of 2015
- Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Junk Fax Prevention Act
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Right to Financial Privacy Act
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act
- State and international privacy legislation and regulation
- ENFORCEMENT
- Data breach investigations
- Hacking, spamming, and other online privacy enforcement
- Wiretap and spying probes
- Identity theft charges
- Privacy and data security compliance efforts
- LITIGATION
- Suits over access to, sharing of, or improper use of personal records, including employment, health, and financial data
- Disputes over data hacks and classified information leaks
- Cases involving the coverage of data-related liability
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of privacy practices
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