Brussels Pries Open WhatsApp: Meta Has Days to Let Rival AI Back In
Meta quietly evicted every AI assistant but its own from WhatsApp. On June 10, the European Commission gave it roughly a working week to reverse cours...
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643 articles on data privacy, breach protection, and cybersecurity insights.
Scanning Before the Lock Clicks: The UK's Plan to Search Your Phone Before Encryption
The UK keeps circling back to the same idea: have your phone inspect your messages before encryption ever protects them. Client-side scanning is sold ...
The Same Day: A UK Cop Accused of Faking Evidence With AI, and a £140m Bet on Police AI
A Derbyshire officer is under criminal investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidence across multiple cases. Days earlier, the UK announce...
Build the Database and It Will Be Abused: Cops Are Using Flock Cameras to Stalk Their Exes
An Institute for Justice study found at least 18 police officers caught using automated license-plate-reader networks to stalk romantic interests. One...
London Blocks a £50m Palantir Police Deal — But a Block Is Not a Ban
In May 2026 the Mayor of London's policing office blocked the Met's £50m plan to buy AI software from Palantir. It was a procurement decision, not a p...
Bill C-34 and the 'Missing Piece' Theory: What Canada's Digital Bills Actually Say
A viral theory holds that four Liberal bills — C-8, C-9, C-22, and C-34 — are snapping together into a Canadian digital-ID surveillance grid, with C-3...
When Transparency Becomes an Attack Surface: Maine's Breach Portal Goes Dark
Maine pulled its public data-breach database offline this month after someone planted fake disclosures naming VRChat and Discord. The episode exposes ...
Google Sues the Factory Behind Your Fake Toll Texts
Google has taken a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service operation called Lighthouse to court, blaming it for the flood of fake USPS, E-ZPass, and to...
New York's FAIR News Act: When 'Made With AI' Becomes the Law
New York's FAIR News Act would force news organizations to label content substantially made with generative AI — covering weather, sports, and enterta...
Sovereignty Is a Login Screen: France's Linux Migration and the Day Microsoft Cut Off a Prosecutor
France is moving 2.5 million government computers off Windows and onto Linux, and the timing is not an accident. The push gathered force after US sanc...
Two Minutes to Break a Child-Safety Promise: The EU's Age-Verification App Meets Reality
Brussels unveiled a privacy-preserving app to keep children safe online and prove age without exposing identity. Within roughly two minutes, a securit...
The $130 Billion Question: Who Decides Where America's AI Gets Built?
The federal AI buildout promises 75-plus data centers worth $130 billion-plus, fast-tracked onto American soil. But the same number turns up in a stra...