On June 12, 2026, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security announced that deepfake domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com were seized and taken down using the TAKE IT DOWN Act. The seized domains “were being used to publish thousands
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Why AI Is Changing Anonymized Data Rules
For years, companies have treated anonymization as a legal comfort zone. Remove names, emails, phone numbers, and other identifiers, and the remaining dataset was often viewed as safer to share, analyze, monetize, and retain. That assumption is getting harder to
Privacy Tip #496 – Imposter Scams Hit Senior Population Hard: How to Avoid Becoming a Victim
June 15, 2026, was designated World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. One of the ways seniors are victimized is through financial scams. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), “in 2025, [elderly] people reported losing about $16 billion to scams,
CISA + Partner Warn That Automatic Tank Gauge Systems Are Being Targeted
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Energy (DOE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Department of Transportation (DOT), and the
Doxim Data Breach Settlement Underscores Third-Party Data Security Risk
On May 5, 2026, the parties in In re Doxim, Inc. Data Security Incident Litigation (E.D. Mich. June 13, 2024), filed a proposed $5.5 million class action settlement arising from a cyber incident involving Doxim, a software provider serving credit
Kaiser Tracking Tech Case Moves Toward Class Certification
A member of Kaiser Permanente, an integrated managed care consortium headquartered in Oakland, California, has asked a federal judge in Seattle to certify nationwide classes and California subclasses in a privacy lawsuit against Microsoft and Qualtrics over tracking technologies allegedly
Anthropic Suggests Global “Pause” on AI Development
AI giant Anthropic has suggested that the world temporarily “pause” on AI development because of AI tools’ ability for “‘recursive self-improvement’– that is, being able to make better and more powerful versions of itself. Recursive self-improvement is a bugbear of
AI Governance Is Not Just a Policy Problem – Your Contracts Matter
AI governance is often discussed through the lens of policies, frameworks, and responsible AI principles. Those tools matter, but they are not where many of the most important AI decisions are actually being made. In practice, AI governance is increasingly
Privacy Tip #495 – What We Can Learn from The Worst Breaches of 2026
I apologize that this post is not light reading. It’s critically important to know what the threats are so you can avoid becoming a victim.
Although disconcerting, it is crucial to know what has happened in the first half of
Stolen Hotel Reservation Data Used in Targeted Phishing Scams
A new report by Wired states that customer data from “more than 350 hotels around the world may have been accessed as part of realistic reservation-hijacking scams.” According to the report, travelers’ information and booking data may have been stolen