This week: Apple's Hide My Email still leaks real addresses, Connecticut protects brainwaves, and a US firm dives for a laptop in China.

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• Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
• Connecticut Classifies Brain Data as Sensitive Starting July 1: New Rights for EEG Wearable Users
• CA to share driver license data despite immigration fears - CalMatters
• Alameda County extends Flock Safety contract amid worries over surveillance network
• Hidden code in Claude Code secretly flagged Chinese users
• US-based ‘Amazon of South Korea’ forced to recover laptop from bottom of Chinese river in bizarre data privacy clampdown: report

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Reddit locks old.reddit behind login, White House sites hide analytics, Illinois targets AI deepfake bullies, and Schrems strikes again.

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• Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com - Ars Technica
• Trump's White House Allegedly Rebuilt Federal Websites Quietly With Hidden Visitor Tracking Tools | IBTimes UK
• Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For | Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Illinois Schools Brace For AI Deepfake Bullies With New Legal Crackdown
• Schrems preps new privacy challenge to EU-US data deal

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Supreme Court protects cellphone location, WhatsApp adds usernames, and Google fights EU data rules.

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• WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private
• Supreme Court Supports Privacy Protections for Cellphone Location Data
• Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

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From mandatory age verification to warrantless tracking and AI listening, today's edition covers the biggest threats to your digital privacy.

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• The KIDS Act Would Require Age Checks To Get Online
• Big Tech Took a $3.5 Billion Hit for Feeding AI With Your Personal Data
• Will My Pixel Smartphone Soon Be Eavesdropping on Me?
• “You Can’t Avoid Them”: A Mother Says She Counted Eight Flock Cameras on the Way to Her Kid’s School
• Martin Lewis data privacy warning whenever you phone up a service provider
• Your web browser knows a lot about you. Here’s what you can do about it.
• “Double Threat” to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcont
• ATF cancels phone tracking contract after lawmakers raise concerns - ABC News
• Your Kids’ School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
• Data breach exposes up to 14.2 million email logins at six ISPs
• Mint Explainer: Why quantum computing is the next geopolitical race
• Big Tech Took a $3.5 Billion Hit for Feeding AI With Your Personal Data
• Will My Pixel Smartphone Soon Be Eavesdropping on Me?
• “You Can’t Avoid Them”: A Mother Says She Counted Eight Flock Cameras on the Way to Her Kid’s School
• Martin Lewis data privacy warning whenever you phone up a service provider
• Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle

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Australia tightens children's privacy, police expand drone surveillance, post-quantum mandates loom, and US data erasure spreads.

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• ‘Everyone Is A Child To Some Extent’: What The Looming Children’s Privacy Code Changes Means For Advertisers
• Drone network part of Met Police's London-wide tech push
• Post-Quantum Encryption: Cloudflare Moves to 2029 as Federal 2030 Mandate Reaches Every Vendor
• Canadian workers have few defences against workplace surveillance
• Trump Has ‘Almost Completely’ Erased LGBTQ+ Data. Is Race Next?

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Cloudflare joins browsers for PACT, Cate Blanchett launches consent registry, and Trump's census ban sparks data chaos.

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• Cloudflare Collaborates with Leading Browsers to Develop a Privacy-First Protocol for the Global Internet
• License plate cameras can track your AirPods, smartwatch, and more, disturbing study finds | The Independent
• Medical AI could compromise your privacy in disturbing new way, experts warn
• Cate Blanchett Just launched a Free Tool To Stop AI From Stealing Your Face
• The Trump Administration’s New Census Data Rules Are a Policy Disaster

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From police abusing license plate data to Meta tracking its own employees and a new tool for AI consent – your daily privacy briefing.

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• LastPass Breached via Klue Supply-Chain Attack:… | DeafNews
• Google Pixel preps ‘Audio Memory’ to track ‘important conversations'
• Cate Blanchett Launches 'Human Consent Registry' to Help Protect Your Likeness From AI Industry Scraping
• Cops Are Already Using License Plate Readers to Stalk People
• Meta hits pause on tracking employee keystrokes to train AI after internal leak

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A federal judge halts a controversial voter database, AMD restores memory encryption after backlash, and Canada passes a contentious surveillance bill.

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• Trump voter database blocked by judge for privacy, accuracy fears
• Anthropic's new privacy policy collects biometric data from flagged Claude users
• Feds pass controversial C-22 lawful access bill before summer break
• Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract
• Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

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Sweden bans AI driver monitoring, India blocks Telegram, France mandates quantum encryption, and more – a packed privacy landscape.

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• GDPR Driver Monitoring Fails Safety Defense: Securitas AI Cameras Ruled Unlawful
• Experts warns AI toy apps for kids are tracking users and collecting personal data
• The Quantum Threat to Encryption Is Coming. France Just Set a 2027 Deadline
• Europol is going rogue – so Brussels is doubling its budget??
• Singaporean brothers use unsolvable maths equations to build modern, unbreakable encryption
• India's Telegram Ban Upheld by Court, Putting 150 Million Users and Every Encrypted App at Risk
• Canadians have days left to claim up to $500 in $4M data breach settlement
• NP View: Mark Carney's online surveillance state
• Anthropic now requires identity verification using a government photo ID before unlocking certain Claude capabilities.
• Anthropic's new privacy policy adds biometric checks to Claude accounts
• Council of Europe Data Breach: ShinyHunters Makes 10,000 Employees' Records Permanent
• Vermont bans AI-only therapy and tightens data broker rules
• ChatGPT can read your bank statements now - here's what it knows
• LETTERS: Canada’s Bill C-22 cause for great concern

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France phases out non-quantum encryption, Google tracks by IP in EU, Apple updates passwords, and US warns of China-linked data risks.

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• Alarm raised over China’s threat to older Americans through drug supply chains
• France to Phase Out Non-Quantum Encryption as Bitcoin Security Concerns Grow
• Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization
• Apple introduces AI password updater
• French spy service drops Palantir – POLITICO
• Why India's New Data Law Is A Costly Wake-Up Call

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