You Save $3,768. Your Data Earns Them $6,565.
Five companies extract more from your data each year than you manage to put away. Nobody has to tell you.
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Capital One Sent Your Job and Income to Meta
Its privacy policy said targeted advertising. It didn't say your preapproval status went to Facebook.
115 Hospitals Closed. The Insurers Got Richer.
Speaker Johnson said it would catch people playing video games. It caught maternity wards.
200 Said Don't. They Fired the One Who Asked.
Thomson Reuters renewed its ICE data deal after its own staff revolted. Nine days after the NYT, they fired the organizer.
The Plan That Got Surrendered
3.6 million borrowers had a $0 payment. Then the administration that could have defended the plan signed it away.
Flock's "Immutable" Logs Aren't Anymore
They promised audit trails that catch officer abuse. Then the logs caught it.
Three Phone Calls Killed the AI Order
79% of Republican voters wanted what three billionaires phoned in to stop.
Altman Called AI Ads a 'Last Resort'
He said it on camera in May 2024. Twenty months later your chat history became the targeting.
Treasury Agreed to Fix Half the Breach
An auditor named six fixes for the payment-system breach. Treasury signed off on three of them.
The Researcher the SEC Cited Says It's Wrong
He spent 16 years advising the firms that benefit. Then he proposed letting them go dark for six months.
$35M for Billing, a Letter for Revenge Porn
Same FTC bureau, same official, six days apart. One got a federal case. One got a PDF.
Two PE Firms. Two EdTech Breaches in a Row.
KKR paid $4.8B for Canvas. Bain paid $5.6B for PowerSchool. PowerSchool was breached 3 months later. Canvas 18 months later.
The Fine Print
The AI Excuse Just Died in Court
DOGE fed $100M in grants into ChatGPT. A judge spent 143 pages on why that's still their decision.
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Oscar's Record Quarter and the Math Behind It
A third of denied-claim appeals win, and almost nobody files one. The insurers did that math first.
The Full Story
Johnson Said Video Games. The CBO Said Paperwork.
Nebraska went live May 1 with no new staff and an exemption that stops at age 13.
The Full Story
fairlife Got Sued Twice. Marketing Unchanged.
Two settlements, three undercover investigations, one cartoon cow still on the carton.
The Public Record
The DHS Study That Said Its Own Towers Don't Work
DHS paid for a study proving the towers failed. CBP responded with $1.8 billion for more towers.
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Taxpayers Now Co-Own Intel's Xinjiang Partner
The US took 9.9% of Intel in August. Intel's 2024 Chinese partner sold fingerprint tech to Xinjiang police.
The Fine Print
GM's $12.75M Fine on $20M in Sales
The record CCPA penalty equals 64 cents on every dollar GM made selling driver data.
The Fine Print
DHS Wants $7.5M for What Agents Already Wear
Agents have been recording in Meta Ray-Bans since June 2025. DHS just asked Congress to fund it.
The Public Record
The Unchecked Box on ICE's Subpoena
DHS used a 1930 customs law to unmask an ICE critic. The form's child-exploitation field is blank.
The Public Record
The DOJ's Own Court Filing on the Voter Data Deal
A DOGE staffer signed a contract using SSA records to challenge election results. The DOJ admitted it under oath.
The Fine Print
ICE Got 79M Medicaid Records. Found Nobody.
Pennsylvania and Colorado terminated zero enrollees. Ohio flagged 1,000 out of 65,000 referrals.
The Fine Print
Cut the Food, Kill the Count
Congress cut $186B from SNAP, then USDA cancelled the 30-year hunger survey. The money went to ADM.