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EU Parliament ram through “Chat Control” extension with undemocratic procedural trick

Οpponents warn that the infrastructure for automated scanning of private communications creates a dangerous precedent that could later expand to other categories of content, such a...

From Privacy Policies to System Architecture: The Supreme Court’s New Compliance Standard

Your Privacy Policy is now Irrelevant! A strategic breakdown of the Supreme Court’s shift in “No Privacy by Design”!! On May 22, 2026, the Supreme Court quieted a massive structura...

EU’s Dirty Tricks to Erase Your Privacy

“Democracy” in Action – EU’s Dirty Tricks to Erase Your PrivacyKit KnightlyYesterday, the European Parliament held a vote on the issue of “chat control” – the legislation empowerin...

EU Parliament approves chat scanning after controversial second vote

The European Parliament has approved an extension of temporary rules allowing online platforms to continue voluntarily scanning unencrypted user communications for known child sexu...

The most Orwellian law yet has just passed in the EU

the European Parliament has adopted Chat Control 1.0, a temporary extension of rules allowing the scanning of private communications to combat online child sexual abuse, by leverag...

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages via the “Chat Control” bill to find child abuse material online.

European member states and Google still want to keep cookie banners

Plans to phase out cookie banners are under pressure. The European Commission had wanted to replace cookie banners with an automated consent signal. However, Google and several EU...

Canada lawful access bill faces backlashes from privacy watchdog and tech giants

Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said Tuesday that the federal lawful access bill requires further amendments to strengthen privacy protections for Canadians despite...

EDPB’s New Anonymization Guidelines: What They Mean for Indian Businesses under the DPDP Act

Introduction The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) has issued detailed guidelines on anonymisation and web scraping in the context of generative AI. These guidelines clarify...

A Strong Defense Ruling for Companies Facing CIPA Website Tracking Claims

A recent Third Circuit decision gives companies another strong defense point in the wave of website tracking and session replay litigation, including claims brought under the Calif...

EU parliament passes ‘chat control,’ allowing private chat scans until 2028

EU lawmakers have again allowed tech firms to scan chats for abuse material, but exempted end-to-end encrypted messages.

Европарламент так и не смог отменить закон о сканировании переписок, хотя большинство проголосовало против

Попытка европейских парламентариев заблокировать повторное введение временной нормы, которая позволяет технологическим компаниям сканировать переписку граждан на предмет наличия ма...

Canada rights groups calls for privacy legislation regulating federal political parties

A coalition of Canadian civil rights groups called for privacy legislation that regulates the collection of personal information by federal political parties on Wednesday. The appe...

France’s CNIL Rules Push Marketers to Use Opens Even Less

New privacy rules in Europe are placing fresh limits on the use of tracking pixel data, which has already seen its usefulness decline dramatically in the wake of Apple’s Mail Priva...

Canada privacy watchdog says Grok generates explicit deepfakes without users valid consent

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said in a report on Thursday that X (formerly Twitter) had not obtained valid consent to collect users’ personal information before...

European Parliament Imposes Mass Electronic Surveillance Regulation After a Majority Votes it Down Three Times

By Eugyppius, Daily Sceptic. (Image: Wiki Creative Commons) That title is polemical, okay? But it’s morally right. If anybody cares, what actually happened is that an extension of...

The Privacy Filter: June 2026

STANDING STRIKES AGAIN IN PRIVACY LITIGATION- The Third Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms The District Court’s Dismissal...

Hi, CIPAWorld! Kelly Sandberg here, with another case on alleging an injury in fact to meet Article III standing requirements for privacy claims. In the case of In re BPS Direct, L...

Chatrie + the Shrinking Third-Party Doctrine: What Data Custodians Should Watch