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California’s Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare

by Rindala Alajaji
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 6/25/2025

California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections...

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Why Are Hundreds of Data Brokers Not Registering with States?

by Mario Trujillo, Hayley Tsukayama
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 6/24/2025

Español Written in collaboration with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Hundreds of data brokers have not registered with state consumer protection agencies. These findings come as more states are passing data broker transparency laws that require broke...

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FBI Warning on IoT Devices: How to Tell If You Are Impacted

by Alexis Hancock, Bill Budington
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Published on 6/24/2025

Español On June 5th, the FBI released a PSA titled “Home Internet Connected Devices Facilitate Criminal Activity.” This PSA largely references devices impacted by the latest generation of BADBOX malware (as named by HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligen...

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