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Published: Thursday, May 21, 2026

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Lawmakers warn data protection rules don&#039;t protect key sites Skip to content NOWCAST KOAT Action 7 News at 4pm Live Now Menu Search News Policies News Local News Target 7 Consumer News Celebrate New Mexico Project Community News We Love Get the Facts Balloon Fiesta Zozobra Upload Weather Radar Alerts Closings Politics Sports New Mexico United High School Football Contests Route 66 KOATs for Kids Advertise with KOAT Advertise with Estrella About Very Local Titan TV Guide News Team Internships Editorials Contacts Privacy Notice Terms of Use SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL Weather Search Press enter to search Type to Search Search location by ZIP code ZIP Advertisement Lawmakers warn data protection rules don&#039;t protect key sites, including White House and CIA Lawmakers warn data protection rules don&#039;t protect key sites, including White House and CIA OK guys, I am really alarmed by this new scam going around, and I am someone who covers consumer news and scams for *** living. So I could really see *** lot of people falling for this one. So you know those capture boxes you have to click, I&#039;m not *** robot on? Well, scammers have found *** way to create fake versions of this that look real, but instead of clicking *** button, what they actually want you to do. is press *** series of keys. So here&#039;s *** real world example of what this looks like that someone shared on Reddit recently. And here&#039;s the thing, when you are running the sequence, what you are actually doing is running *** command that will download malware onto your device. That malware can steal your passwords, logins, potentially even banking information. So here&#039;s what you should know. *** real captcha message will never ask you to run *** sequence of keys. So if you see that immediate red flag, close out of the tab immediately. Now, if you did this by accident, you&#039;re going to want to act fast. So disconnect from Wi Fi, run *** virus scam, change your passwords from *** different device, and be sure to follow me for more scam alerts and consumer news like this. Updated: 12:40 PM MDT May 21, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ By BYRON TAU Associated Press Advertisement Lawmakers warn data protection rules don&#039;t protect key sites, including White House and CIA Updated: 12:40 PM MDT May 21, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ By BYRON TAU Associated Press The Biden administration spent almost a year crafting regulations to block U.S. adversaries from buying commercial data gathered from cell phones at the federal government's most sensitive locations.The resulting rules, however, have a few gaps. Left off the list of 736 sensitive locations were the White House, Congress and the CIA's headquarters, among others, according to a warning issued Thursday by three congressional Democrats."The sale of Americans' location data by data brokers poses a serious threat to U.S. national security, particularly when data about U.S. government employees is sold to foreign governments," the l

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