On April 7, 2026, Anthropic did something no frontier AI company has ever done before. They finished training their most capable model — and announced they would not be releasing…
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Protecting your privacy online can feel overwhelming. But we can help.As you browse online for health conditions or advice—looking up symptoms, medications, or clinics—ad trackers can quietly broadcast clues about what you’re reading and where you are billions of times a day across the web. Data brokers turn those clues into “audience lists” of people likely dealing with things like asthma, depression, or diabetes (sometimes even tagging caregivers or people in government/medical roles), even when platforms say they ban this. And once your data is pushed into that system, there’s no practical way to control who sees it, how it’s combined with other data, or who it’s sold to next.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Light Collective, a patient advocacy group committed to protecting privacy and patient rights, today announced it has submitted a formal complaint to the Federal Trade Commission…
Your DNA isn’t just personal — it’s permanently identifying, impossible to change, and increasingly valuable to insurers, researchers, marketers, and law enforcement. As technology advances, your genetic and health data becomes more profitable to others and more predictive of your future — not just your ancestry, but your disease risk, reproductive potential, even your kids’ health. And yet, the protections around it remain fragile, fractured, and easy to sidestep.
Today is World Patient Safety Day, and The Light Collective is proud to share new community-based participatory research on patient priorities in health technology. Health data regulations today are fraught…
In a nutshell, the ruling that hospitals can share patient browsing data to Meta, TikTok and other third parties via adtech if patients view health related content, voiding part of OCR’s ban on tracking technologies.