Privacy Roundup #0238 • May 2026
May 2026 brought a wave of mass data breaches, fresh fights over encryption backdoors and age checks, and a landmark order against a location data broker.
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Privacy in the digital world covers how personal data is collected, stored, and used. Posts in this category discuss ways to protect your information online, privacy tools, and related concerns. As more of life moves online, understanding privacy becomes more important.
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Privacy Roundup #0237 • April 2026
April brought a hacked FBI wiretap system, fresh fights over government location buying, and a wave of breaches and fines across Europe and the United States.
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Privacy Roundup #0236 • March 2026
March brought huge healthcare and supply-chain breaches, a wave of GDPR court rulings, and fresh proof that the government buys location data from the advertising industry.
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Privacy Roundup #0235 • February 2026
February brought a wave of vishing-driven breaches, fresh fights over police cameras and ICE surveillance, and regulators leaning on data brokers.
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Privacy Roundup #0234 • January 2026
January brought a wave of government surveillance deals, fresh data broker fines, large corporate breaches and a renewed fight over encryption.
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Privacy Roundup #0233 • December 2025
December closed the year with fresh fights over message scanning, the first big fine under the EU platform rules, and a run of large breaches and data broker reckonings.
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Privacy Roundup #0232 • November 2025
November brought a wave of vendor breaches, fresh fights over surveillance and encryption, and large fines that showed regulators are not slowing down.
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Privacy Roundup #0231 • October 2025
October 2025 brought a wave of supply chain extortion, fresh attacks on encryption, and a hard look at the surveillance camera networks now woven through everyday life.
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Privacy Roundup #0230 • September 2025
September 2025 brought record privacy fines, a string of supply chain breaches, and fresh fights over surveillance and encryption.
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Privacy Roundup #0229 • August 2025
August 2025 was dominated by a wave of Salesforce supply chain breaches, fresh fights over encryption and age checks, and court wins against intrusive data collection.
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Privacy Roundup #0228 • July 2025
July 2025 brought mass breaches, fresh age checks, and a clearer look at how governments and firms hoard our data.
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Privacy Roundup #0227 • June 2025
June 2025 brought record credential leaks, fresh spyware findings and a wave of state and court decisions that pushed surveillance deeper into everyday life.
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Privacy Roundup #0226 • May 2025
May 2025 brought record fines, insider breaches and government surveillance contracts that showed how data brokers, Big Tech and encryption sit at the centre of the privacy fight.
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Privacy Roundup #0225 • April 2025
April 2025 saw Europe land its first Digital Markets Act fines on Apple and Meta, a run of large health and corporate breaches, and fresh fights over encryption, location tracking and government access to data.
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Privacy Roundup #0224 • March 2025
March 2025 was dominated by encryption fights, a wave of breach disclosures and a sharp rise in government and corporate data grabs.
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Privacy Roundup #0223 • February 2025
February 2025 was defined by encryption under siege, with Britain and Sweden pressing for backdoors while breaches, AI chatbots, and a new government data grab kept defenders busy.
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Privacy Roundup #0222 • January 2025
January 2025 opened the year with a flood of location data scandals, hard regulatory action against connected cars and data brokers, and a Supreme Court ruling that sealed the fate of TikTok.
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Privacy Roundup #0221 • December 2024
December 2024 closed the year with record European fines, fresh data broker crackdowns, and a stark warning that lawful surveillance backdoors had become a national security liability.
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Privacy Roundup #0220 • November 2024
November 2024 was dominated by the Salt Typhoon telecom espionage revelations, a wave of breach disclosures, and fresh fines and surveillance fights on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Privacy Roundup #0219 • October 2024
October 2024 brought record fines for Big Tech, a wave of mass breaches, and fresh proof that the state and data brokers keep buying their way around warrants.
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Privacy Roundup #0218 • September 2024
September 2024 brought record European fines, fresh breach disclosures and a sharp reminder that surveillance reaches from telecom wiretap systems to children's social accounts.
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Privacy Roundup #0217 • August 2024
August 2024 brought the arrest of Telegram's founder, a record GDPR fine on Uber, the National Public Data mega-breach and a run of court rulings that reshaped surveillance and Big Tech privacy.
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Privacy Roundup #0216 • July 2024
July 2024 was dominated by the fallout from the Snowflake breaches, record-breaking fines and bans, and fresh fights over surveillance and online safety law.
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Privacy Roundup #0215 • June 2024
June 2024 was dominated by the sprawling Snowflake credential thefts, fresh curbs on Big Tech artificial intelligence and surveillance, and a run of regulators, courts and breach disclosures reshaping data protection.
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Privacy Roundup #0214 • May 2024
May 2024 was dominated by the Snowflake breach wave and a fierce backlash against artificial intelligence features that quietly harvest personal data.
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