Happy New Year! 2025 was a busy year for the Insider authors—we published 271 posts throughout 2025. To kick-off 2026, in case you missed them last year, we are providing the articles from 2025 that were the most interesting to our readers across various categories.
We hope you enjoy them and look forward to another productive year of keeping our readers informed on the rapidly changing and dynamic areas of data privacy, cybersecurity, information governance, artificial intelligence, and of course—the weekly Privacy Tip!
CYBERSECURITY
FBI Warns of Account Takeover Fraud
Insider Threats Climb + Are Costly
ENFORCEMENT + LITIGATION
EdTech and Privacy of Student Information: A Case Study
Breaches Within Breaches: Contractual Obligations After a Security Incident
DATA PRIVACY
Privacy Under Pressure: What the NYT v. OpenAI Teaches Us About Data Governance
New State Privacy Laws Expand Consumer Data Control in 2026
INFORMATION GOVERNANCE
Why Dumping Sensitive Data on Network Shares is a Liability
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE
When AI Notetakers Take the Stand: The Legal Risks Lurking in Your Virtual Meetings
PRIVACY TIPS
Privacy Tip #431 – DOGE Has Access to Our Personal Information: What You Need to Know
Privacy Tip #7 – Who is listening to your conversations through your smartphone microphone?