May 2026 brought a wave of mass data breaches, fresh fights over encryption backdoors and age checks, and a landmark order against a location data broker. 1. FTC bans Kochava from selling sensitive location data The Federal Trade Commission ordered the data broker Kochava to stop selling location data that can trace people to clinics, places of worship and shelters. The firm must also delete the records it gathered without clear consent. → www.ftc.gov 2. NYC Health and Hospitals breach exposes 1.8 million patients A third party vendor was breached, exposing medical records and biometric scans, including fingerprints, for at least 1.8 million people. It is one of the largest health breaches of the year so far. → techcrunch.com 3. Hotel check-in system left a million passports open to anyone An unsecured cloud storage bucket run by the Japanese hotel system Tabiq exposed around a million passports and driving licences. Anyone who found the link could read the documents without any…
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