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I’ve occasionally shared memories of that terrible day in September.

Nicholas Boyle, Claire Kermond, and Alexandra Moore of White & Case write: On August 31, 2026, the Australian Government released a Privacy Reform – Consultation Paper (the Consultation Paper) and an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data…

Jake Moore of ESET had a concerning post on LinkedIn: I found a way to disable the privacy LED on Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses.

Connor Jones reports: LG is once again fending off allegations that its expensive consumer hardware gathers extensive information about users and their surroundings for the benefit of its advertising business.

Sanjana Karanth reports: In a setback for the Trump administration, a federal appeals court has upheld a previous ruling preventing the Internal Revenue Service from sharing taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Gintaras Radauskas reports: If you’re a Polarsteps user who loves to share your travels on the app, be aware that anyone could find out what you were up to this past summer.

Roxanne Libatique reports: A data breach affecting more than one million students, parents, and teachers across Australia and New Zealand has produced one of the clearest test cases the Australian cyber insurance market has seen for how patch-management o…

Brian Dolinar writes: A growing movement has been campaigning against surveillance cameras from companies like Flock Safety, which allow local police to gather mass surveillance data, often citing the possibility of misuse of that data.

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California has settled a lawsuit against Sonoma County over a runaway drone surveillance program in which code enforcement inspectors spied on residents’ homes and the areas surrounding them without first getting a warrant,…

Jonathan Bilyk reports: A federal judge will allow lawyers who led a privacy class action lawsuit against Google to claim nearly $147 million in legal fees, nearly a third of the $425 million a jury had ordered the tech giant to pay for allegedly tracking…