Engadget: OkCupid settles FTC case on alleged misuse of its users’ personal data . “According to the lawsuit, the FTC accused OkCupid of inappropriately sharing personal user data that includes photos and location info with a third party company, Clarifai, which offers AI-powered software for uses like facial recognition and content moderation.”

NOTUS: The White House App Is Riddled With Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities. “The cybersecurity experts’ reviews of the app code turned up a host of issues that they say make data — for both users and some White House staffers — vulnerable. Several told NOTUS they were shocked by the slipshod approach to cybersecurity by the federal government, especially while the U.S. is engaged in war.”

Jens Oliver Meiert: Releasing Searcher, a Configurable, Privacy-Minded Chromium Extension to Trigger Random Searches. “As part of my brand-new IA Defensa family of mini defense tools, Searcher Chromium is a configurable and extensible browser extension that automatically enters and can trigger searches on Google, Amazon, and almost any other site with a search field. The capability makes it […]

Times of India: Aravind Srinivas’s Perplexity AI faces lawsuit over sharing users’ data without consent; company responds. “Perplexity AI has been accused of sharing user data with major tech companies – Google and Meta without proper consent. According to a report by Bloomberg, a lawsuit has been filed against Perplexity AI, led by CEO Aravind Srinivas accusing the company of allowing […]

ZDNet: Proton just launched a Google Workspace alternative – and it’s fully encrypted. “Proton, the organization behind the popular Proton VPN service, is carving a foothold in the productivity arena with the launch of Proton Workspace, available today. Proton, based in Switzerland and subject to the country’s strict privacy and data protection laws, calls its new offering a ‘private […]

Different institutions frequently collect people’s private data. This episode of the series “What Everybody Knows About You” by Andrew Oram focuses on governments.

Check it out: https://lpi.org/xqlz

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CNBC: Epstein victims sue Google and the Trump administration over alleged disclosure of personal information. “The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, where Google is headquartered, claims the Justice Department ‘outed’ about 100 Epstein survivors in late 2025 and early 2026, and that even after the government acknowledged the mistake and withdrew the […]

ZDNet: Want to know which sites are selling your data? This free privacy tool gave me answers. “There’s a service called Global Privacy Control that offers extensions and/or links to browsers and apps that support the cause. This service began in 2020 and was inspired by the California Consumer Privacy Act, which gives California residents the right to opt out of any business that would sell […]

Bleeping Computer: Crunchyroll probes breach after hacker claims to steal 6.8M users’ data. “Popular anime streaming platform Crunchyroll is investigating a breach after hackers claimed to have stolen personal information for approximately 6.8 million people.”

Ars Technica: FBI started buying Americans’ location data again, Kash Patel confirms. “Three years after saying it had stopped buying location data of Americans without a warrant, the FBI acknowledged it has restarted the purchases. During questioning at a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing yesterday, FBI Director Kash Patel said the location data purchases have produced valuable […]