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DHS Investigates Potential Breach After 41,000 ICE, CBP and CISA Staff Records Published Online

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security says it is looking into a potential breach after a searchable directory of more than 41,000 of its employees and contractors went online on October 28. The records name staff at ICE, CBP, Homeland Security Investigations, USCIS and CISA, with titles, offices, work phone numbers, email addresses, managers and the internal access groups each person belongs to. Some of those groups point to undercover and surveillance work.

Social Security Rewrites Its Records With 17 Million Death Dates and 25 Million Citizenship Entries From DHS SAVE

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Social Security Administration said on October 20 that it has added 17 million missing death dates to its Social Security number records and filled in citizenship for about 25 million more, using DHS’s SAVE service. It is correcting another 8.5 million records with wrong citizenship status. All the figures are the agency’s own. SSA released no breakdown, no error rate and no outside review.

Commissioner Frank Bisignano called the database “our country’s books and records.” SSA says it has corrected nearly 15 percent of all active Social Security numbers since the start of the administration, touching nearly 390 million records in all. It describes the work as the largest clean-up in its 91-year history. The death dates came from SSA’s own systems and from State Department data. SSA repeated the totals in an October 23 release on its fiscal 2026 performance.

EU Cloud and AI Development Act Could Shut US Cloud Providers Out of Sensitive Public Contracts

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon, Microsoft and Google run most of Europe’s cloud computing. A law now moving through Brussels could decide whether they may keep hosting its most sensitive public data. On September 8, 2026, EU governments went through the key part of the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, articles 29 to 44, article by article. Those articles set who qualifies to host public-sector data at each level of sensitivity, and they turn on conditions the United States may not meet.

US CLOUD Act vs EU Law: The Data Privacy Framework Survives Its First Court Test as US Cloud Giants Build Sovereign Versions

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

American cloud companies run most of Europe’s computing, and American law can reach their data. The CLOUD Act of 2018 lets US authorities require a provider to hand over data it controls, wherever it’s stored. In June 2025 a French Senate inquiry asked Microsoft France’s legal director a simple question. Could he guarantee that data about French citizens held by Microsoft would never be handed to US authorities without French approval? Anton Carniaux answered: “No, I cannot guarantee it.”

TikTok's US Joint Venture Still Runs on ByteDance's Licensed Algorithm as the Company Skips a House China Committee Hearing

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

TikTok’s security chief was due to testify before the House Select Committee on China on September 15. On August 27 the company pulled out, citing litigation over child safety. Committee chair John Moolenaar said it “really undermines their credibility,” and that he couldn’t tell whether the decision came from TikTok’s new US company or from ByteDance in Beijing.

That’s the question Congress has been asking since the US deal closed on January 22, 2026.