Lynnwood terminates Flock Safety cameras due to trust and oversight issues

LYNNWOOD—The Lynnwood City Council voted unanimously on Monday, February 22, to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, scrapping a controversial network of automated license plate recognition cameras that had drawn months of fierce community backlash over privacy invasions and potential misuse for immigration enforcement. The Council’s decision was a swift reversal for a program once […]

Time is running out to get up to $7,500 in AT&T’s $177 Million data breach settlement

NEW YORK—AT&T, one of the nation’s largest telecommunications providers, finalized a $177 million settlement in March 2025 to address two major data breaches that compromised the personal information of nearly 109 million current and former customers. With the claim filing deadline set for December 18, 2025—just weeks away—the window to claim a settlement for as […]

Massive data breach exposes Social Security information

FLORIDA—On the 89th anniversary of the Social Security program on Wednesday, August 14, it was reported that 2.9 billion records were compromised, including Social Security numbers, in a breach of National Public Data, a background check company, that occurred four months earlier in April. “It is disturbing and unacceptable that Americans are just now learning […]