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Grindr Fined for Sharing HIV Status Data: What Users Should Do Now
Grindr, the dating app used by 11 million monthly active users, faces a $20 million settlement with the Federal Trade…
How the New COPPA Rules Change Data Collection for Children’s Apps
The Federal Trade Commission's updated Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rules—effective December 2024—represent the latest…
How to Download and Delete Your TikTok Data Before It’s Too Late
TikTok's data download feature—allowing users to request their account information under GDPR and similar regulations—appears…
AI Chatbots Are Recording Your Conversations: Which Companies Keep Your Data
Every conversation with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini generates behavioral exhaust: which topics you linger on, how you phrase questions, what you revise before sending, when you abandon searches mid-query. These…
Kids Online Safety Act: How New Rules Change Social Media for Teens
The Kids Online Safety Act represents a critical inflection point in how legislators respond to surveillance capitalism—but not in the…
The FTC Crackdown on Data Brokers: What Changed in 2026
The Federal Trade Commission's enforcement action against data brokers in 2026 represents not a solution to Cambridge Analytica's legacy, but…
TikTok Data Transfer to Oracle: What Actually Happened to Your Data
TikTok's promised "data transfer" to Oracle was meant to solve American national security concerns. What actually happened reveals something more…
New US State Privacy Laws in 2026: What Rights Do You Have Now?
The wave of state privacy legislation sweeping the US—California's CPRA, Virginia's VCDPA, Colorado's CPA, and their 2026 successors—appears to offer…