Tonya Riley

Tonya Riley covers privacy, surveillance and cryptocurrency for CyberScoop News. She previously wrote the Cybersecurity 202 newsletter for The Washington Post and before that worked as a fellow at Mother Jones magazine. Her work has appeared in Wired, CNBC, Esquire and other outlets. She received a BA in history from Brown University.

You can reach Tonya with sensitive tips on Signal at 202-643-0931. PR pitches to Signal will be ignored and should be sent via email.

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Federal agencies are falling behind on meeting key privacy goal set five years ago

Privacy

A pedestrian walks past a seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation”, displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building, in Washington, DC, on August 15, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Privacy watchdog recommends court approval for FBI searches of spy data

Privacy

Scaffolding covers the Statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome on September 27, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

New working group to probe AI risks and applications

AI

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 6: An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed upon entering the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023. (Photo by David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

How a private company helps ICE track migrants’ every move

Privacy

The UK parliament amended a controversial surveillance clause in a sweeping online safety bill. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

US, UK strike data transfer agreement

Privacy

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks to members of the press outside the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023.(Alex Wong/Getty Images)

FTC nominees urge Congress to pass federal data privacy law

Government

Attendees walk past the logo of US multinational technology company Microsoft during the Web Summit in Lisbon on November 6, 2019. (PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP /AFP via Getty Images)

Microsoft AI researchers exposed sensitive signing keys, internal messages

Cybersecurity

A California flag flies in front of 555 California Street on May 09, 2023 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)

California passes first-in-the-nation data broker deletion tool

Privacy

The logo of X, formerly known as Twitter, is displayed on a smart phone screen. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Former Twitter executives: Privacy and security practices deteriorated under Musk

Privacy