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NY’s Attorney General and CT’s Attorney General held both a provider and its IT company liable for a data breach. The settlement also includes a corrective action plan to improve data security. New York Attorney General Letitia James and…
Anne Arundel County, Maryland, said an intruder stole files from government systems, and investigators are working to assess how much data was exposed.
In today’s reminder of the insider threat, Kim Ji-won reports: A National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) employee was dismissed for illegally selling personal information of health insurance subscribers to external parties, but victims…
Barry Steinhardt, a lifelong privacy champion and an early leader in the battle for digital civil liberties who served as EFF’s president in 1998-99, died last week at age 73. A Connecticut native, Steinhardt led the Vermont and…
No one should have to choose between speaking freely and protecting their immigration status. Yet that’s precisely the choice the Trump administration’s mass surveillance of online speech forces on noncitizens living in the U.S. Last fall,…
Debra Ahmed reports: An unprotected database linked to India-based AI software development and IT services company Vibetech exposed 13.7 million records containing credentials and other sensitive information from previous data breaches.…
Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which was compromised in a cyberattack in 2025…
Today, EFF joined the ACLU of Wisconsin in filing a petition to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, asking it to rule that the state’s constitution requires a warrant for retrospective searches of ALPR databases used by law enforcement in four…
EFF legal intern Gabrielle Ladun was the principal author of this post. The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) has published a summary of findings from its audit of the Transportation Security…
No one should have to think twice before criticizing the government online. But a mass surveillance program known as "Catch and Revoke" was created to make millions do just that. EFF and other defenders of free speech are fighting back. In…
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