Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 21, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that two Democrat members of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (“PCLOB”) were unlawfully terminated by President Trump. The plaintiffs, Travis LeBlanc and Edward Felten, argued in their complaint against the PCLOB and others that the…
Category: Govt
Privacy enforcement under Andrew Ferguson’s FTC
Since Andrew Ferguson assumed the role of FTC chair in January 2025, has the FTC shifted its approach to privacy enforcement at all? The Bradley law firm has published a few articles at Online and On Point focused on that question. In Part 1, “Staying in Our Lane”: Andrew Ferguson’s FTC Philosophy on Privacy Enforcement,…
No Postal Service Data Sharing to Deport Immigrants
Adam Schwartz of EFF writes: The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently joined a U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) task force geared towards finding and deporting immigrants, according to a report from the Washington Post. Now, immigration officials want two sets of data from the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS). First, they want…
DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk
Hannah Natanson, Joseph Menn, Lisa Rein and Rachel Siegel report: The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of U.S. citizens and residents, a campaign that often violates or disregards core privacy and security protections meant to keep such information safe, government workers…