Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer looks at a laptop computer for sale last year. Comprehensive consumer privacy laws are taking effect in eight states ...

December 23, 2025 - Over the past several months, I have handled more cross-border data issues than I have in my whole career. This phenomenon only reinforces what I've known for some time: In this ...

The law hasn't kept pace with these technical realities, and this gap impacts every American. More than ever before, as a privacy professional working on cutting-edge software systems, I believe ...

The number of individual US states with local data privacy legislation on their statute books has expanded rapidly in 2025, with nine more state laws coming into effect this year and three more states ...

Who should be held liable when a person’s biometric data — their facial features, voice or fingerprints — is misused? Illinois is home to some of the strongest consumer privacy regulations in the ...

When I joined Palantir in 2010 to cofound its Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering team, the proliferation of Internet services and post-9/11 acknowledgement of ...