On March 19, 2026, House Bill 8014, “Online Privacy Act of 2026,” was introduced in the House and referred to the Energy and ...

The draft proposal is expected to face opposition from Democrats wanting a higher ceiling for federal data protection.

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In 1998, the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act became law. COPPA was designed with the future of the Internet in mind. Dotcoms were fast on their way to ...

How effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease?

A proposal to create a comprehensive data privacy law in Maine was unable to recover after sizable business pushback led ...

More states are passing laws to protect information generated by a person's brain and nervous system as technology improves the ability to unlock the sensitive details of a person's health, mental ...

Since last year, the Justice Department has made unprecedented demands to states for sensitive voter data, including drivers ...

When I joined Palantir in 2010 to cofound its Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering team, the proliferation of Internet services and post-9/11 acknowledgement of ...