A recent court order from the Northern District of California offers a useful reminder that not every alleged collection of browsing data will support an invasion-of-privacy claim. In Campbell v. Honey Science, LLC (N.D. Cal. June 15, 2026), the plaintiffs
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FCC Narrows Foreign Drone Restrictions with Toy Exception
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has narrowed its foreign-produced drone restrictions by removing a specific category of “Toy Drones” and “Toy Drones that contain foreign-produced components” from the FCC Covered List. The June 15, 2026, Public Notice follows a June
Deepfake Site Taken Down by DOJ + DHS
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
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