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Transparency Cascade Press “In December 2024, the Federal Trade Commission caught a data broker called Mobilewalla holding more than 500 million advertising IDs paired with people’s precise location — and selling the ability to draw a circle around a building and get a list of every phone that had been inside it. The FTC’s own …
Above The Law: “The ‘law firm intimidation policy’ suit just entered its ‘show us the memos’ phase. In a Tuesday filing in American Bar Association v. Executive Office of the President, the ABA asked U.S. District Judge Amir Ali to force the White House to hand over internal communications, including those involving Bannon and Boris …
404 Media: “…Hide My Email is part of Apple’s paid iCloud+ product. It lets users generate an anonymous email address which they can then use to sign up to services or email people with instead of their personal email. These email addresses are often two random words and a number ending in the @icloud.com domain. …
Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote. AP, June 24, 2026. “A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote. …
PCMag: “Google can log your searches, watch history, and activity across its various services. That might sound handy for a quick review of your browsing history or revisiting locations on Google Maps, but the company’s data collection practices can also feel very invasive. Your data helps Google serve faster searches and better location tracking, but …
The Parnas Perspective: “A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track processing of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking records about why the Trump administration decided not to release the Jeffrey Epstein files in July, despite earlier promises of transparency. The request, brought by Democracy Forward, seeks internal communications that could reveal whether …
CNN Reliable Sources: “Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files” is the title of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan’s explosive excerpt from their forthcoming book “Regime Change.” Now comes the freakout over the “freakout” article. The New York Times published the “Regime Change” excerpt at 6 a.m. ET today, and it immediately intensified …
Email Markup Consortium: “This report serves as a technical audit of the senders, platforms and email clients that define the modern inbox. The results below are from analysis of over 376,000 emails across senders and geographies, looking at how each email scored on a detailed accessibility scorecard. This year’s report also looks beyond the sender, …
Confidential Government Information Nondisclosure Agreement, Federal Register, May 27, 2026 AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: Notice with request for comment. SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) requests comment on a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) for use by Federal agencies for both new and existing employees. The form is intended to document Federal employees’ …
Gizmodo: “The SolarWinds attack in 2020 was a humiliating all-out assault on U.S. government cybersecurity, and it’s likely that one key reason it’s not more famous is that we still know very little about what the hackers achieved. But we now have a few more crumbs to work with, because new revelations from Bloomberg have …
Proton Blog: “Journalists have always operated in the crosshairs. They investigate the powerful, protect confidential sources, and publish uncomfortable truths. Today the threats they face are evolving, with political pressure and surveillance coming not only from authoritarian regimes but also from backsliding liberal democracies. Bad actors can use hacks and data breaches to disrupt their …
Citizens for Ethics: “A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction today requiring Trump administration officials to follow the Presidential Records Act and preserve text messages, including Signal messages, pertaining to its work, in response to a motion filed and argued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington on behalf of the Freedom of the …
