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News Articles: Privacy

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaking at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025.

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  • Politics

A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration's efforts to merge personal data

A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
A cursor moves over Google's search engine page, in Portland, Ore., on Aug. 28, 2018. The most valuable information Google is being forced to share under Judge Amit Mehta's ruling is users' click-and-query data. That refers to the information Google collects from users about what they search for (the queries) and what links they select (the clicks).

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  • Technology

A judge ordered Google to share its search data. What does that mean for user privacy?

The ruling in the Google antitrust trial has led to a host of hard-to-answer questions about the future of Google's search data, which the tech giant must now share with competitors. What does that mean for users' data privacy?

September 19, 2025
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A 2022 file photo demonstrating Clearview AI's facial recognition software.

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  • Technology

With no federal facial recognition law, states rush to fill void

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes as Congress has yet to pass any facial recognition technology.

August 28, 2025
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A closed entrance to the Social Security Administration headquarters sits empty in Woodlawn, Md., on March 20.

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  • Politics

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

A whistleblower complaint says the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by former members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

August 27, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
A coalition of states is suing the federal government to prevent it from gathering personal data on tens of millions of people who receive food assistance.

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  • National

States sue USDA over efforts to gather food stamp data on tens of millions of people

Twenty-one states are suing after the USDA demanded states turn over sensitive data on food assistance applicants. The lawsuit calls the demand an "Orwellian surveillance campaign."

July 28, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
A banner showing an image of President Trump hangs on the side of the U.S. Department of Agriculture building in Washington, DC. The department wants states to turn over records about tens of millions of people who have received federally-funded nutrition assistance by July 30.

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  • Politics

The USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data by the end of July

The USDA has set a deadline of July 30 for states to hand over the sensitive data of tens of millions of people who applied for federal food assistance, while a lawsuit is trying to stop the collection.

July 19, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on February 01, 2024 in Sunnyvale, California.

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  • Technology

Judge OKs sale of 23andMe — and its trove of DNA data — to a nonprofit led by its founder

The DNA data of millions of people who used 23andMe's services won't be sold to a pharmaceutical company. A bankruptcy judge greenlighted the sale of the remnants of the firm, including its wealth of genetic data, to a nonprofit led by co-founder Anne Wojcicki.

June 30, 2025
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By:
  • John Ruwitch

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

The Trump administration is building a national citizenship data system

The Department of Homeland Security, with help from DOGE, has rolled out a tool that purports to be able to check the citizenship status of almost all Americans.

June 29, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Miles Parks
The Trump administration is trying to get access to data held by states, such as information about people who have been enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food aid to people.

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  • Politics

The Trump administration is making an unprecedented reach for data held by states

States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal agencies. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

June 26, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
The federal government wants states to turn over data about tens of millions of people who received food assistance benefits since 2020. A new lawsuit challenges that data request.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

Lawsuit challenges USDA demand for food stamp data as some states prepare to comply

The suit claims that efforts to get sensitive information about food aid recipients from states violates federal privacy laws.

May 22, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block and
  • Stephen Fowler
Customers shop for produce at a grocery store on Feb. 12, 2025 in Austin, Texas.

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  • Politics

Privacy advocates urge states not to comply with USDA requests for food stamp data

One payment processor has so far signaled to states that it intends to turn over data about millions of Americans to the federal government even as privacy groups warn that the request is illegal.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
The genetic testing company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy.

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  • Technology

How to delete your 23andMe data after the company filed for bankruptcy

When the California biotech firm filed for bankruptcy, there was one looming question for customers: What's going to happen to my data?

March 25, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
Elon Musk's DOGE team has sought sweeping access to government databases that store personal information on millions of Americans.

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  • National

The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks about Siri during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., June 4, 2018.

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  • Business

Apple to pay $95 million to settle lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping

Apple isn't acknowledging wrongdoing in the settlement, which still must be approved by a U.S. District judge. Lawyers in the case have proposed scheduling a Feb. 14 court hearing to review the terms.

January 03, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa.

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  • World

Canada orders TikTok's Canadian business to be dissolved but won't block app

Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the decision to dissolve TikTok of its Canadian business is meant to address risks perceived to be related to TikTok's Chinese parent company.

November 07, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
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