23andMe Filed for Bankruptcy. Your DNA Went With It. By: Christopher Perry, CEO — PrettyFluid Technologies In March 2025, 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company that built a business on collecting, analyzing, and commercializing the genetic data of more than 15 million people was now in financial distress, and its most valuable […]
In January 2025, a Chinese AI lab called DeepSeek released an open-weight language model that matched or exceeded the performance of leading American AI systems at a fraction of the reported training cost. The release sent shockwaves through the technology industry. It also surfaced a set of data privacy questions that the rapid adoption of […]
In December 2024, PowerSchool — the largest K-12 education software provider in the United States — suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of students and teachers across thousands of school districts. The breach was exposed in January 2025, when affected districts began notifying families. PowerSchool’s platform is used by more than 18,000 […]
In 2024, the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force — the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for regulating AI systems. Like GDPR before it, the AI Act is expected to become a de facto global standard, shaping how AI is developed and deployed well beyond Europe’s borders. The Act takes a risk-based approach. […]
In late 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services proposed the most significant update to the HIPAA Security Rule since it was last revised in 2013. The proposed changes would make several currently “addressable” requirements mandatory: multi-factor authentication, network segmentation, encryption of electronic protected health information at rest and in transit, and annual penetration […]
In the summer of 2024, a background check company called National Public Data suffered what may be the largest data breach ever recorded by number of records. A threat actor published a dataset claiming to contain 2.9 billion rows of personal information: Social Security numbers, full names, addresses, and family member relationships — scraped and […]