Suzanne Smalley reports: California’s attorney general announced Thursday that his office has settled with the parent company of the streaming service Sling TV for allegedly failing to give consumers an easy way to block sales of their personal data and for inadequately protecting the privacy of children. Sling TV has agreed to pay a $530,000…
Massive Great Firewall Leak Exposes 500GB of Censorship Data
Mathura Kayir reports: In a historic breach of China’s censorship infrastructure, over 500 gigabytes of internal data were leaked from Chinese infrastructure firms associated with the Great Firewall (GFW) in September 2025. Researchers now estimate the full dump is closer to approximately 600 GB, with a single archive comprising around 500 GB alone. The material…
US judge permanently blocks Trump order requiring voters to prove citizenship
Dietrich Knauth reports: A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked part of an executive order from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, ruling that the president cannot require voters to show passports or similar documents as proof of citizenship before voting. Several lawsuits have challenged the president’s March 25 executive order, a sweeping order aimed at…
Landmark civil penalty of AU$5.8 million issued under Australia’s Privacy Act
Charmian Aw, Melissa B. Levine, and Ciara O’Leary of Hogan Lovells write: On 9 October 2025 the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) imposed an AU$5.8 million civil penalty on Australian Clinical Labs Limited, one of Australia’s largest private hospital pathology service providers (the Company), for systemic failures that led to the unauthorised access to…