Scammers mining public jail rosters to identify a defendant's family, then calling to demand bail money, has now surfaced in three counties this year — and one sheriff just pulled the list

The FBI's own advisory on generative AI lists four things criminals now do with it. Read against the advice families have been given for twenty years, it is an inventory of retired safety checks — and two of them are still in the advisory's own tips.

Prize fraud is old enough to have its own federal statute. What is worth a second look is that the search demand sits on the entry side, and that is where the research says the risk starts.

California's data broker platform went live on 1 August. The enforcement case behind it shows why reducing exposure is the lever that exists, and prosecution is not.