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California's Corporate Cover-Up Act Is a Privacy Nightmare


California lawmakers are pushing one of the most dangerous privacy rollbacks we’ve seen in years. S.B. 690, what we’re calling the Corporate Cover-Up Act, is a brazen attempt to let corporations spy on us in secret, gutting long-standing protections without a shred of accountability.The Corporate...

This would end the practice of targeting ads based on your online activity, removing the primary incentive for companies to track and share your personal data. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 ( S. 1829), which would undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content. In a victory for personal privacy, a New York federal district court judge today granted a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) disclosure of records to DOGE and its agents.

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