Week in Review: Cameras, Classifiers, and What Happens to Your Data When the Company Dies
Facial recognition on the Tube. A four-year-unpatched criminal records portal. An airline's emails and 30 million recorded calls sold for $10 million....
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Chat Control Is Back Until 2028, and the AI Act's Big Date Came and Mostly Went
Member states approved the temporary CSAM scanning derogation in early August, restoring voluntary message scanning until April 2028 after a Parliamen...
Surveillance by Default: The Week the Machinery Won Without Winning the Argument
This week's ledger isn't about a breach — it's about architecture. Europe's message-scanning regime survived a vote a majority cast against it. Americ...
How Chat Control Survived a Vote It Lost: The EU's Message-Scanning Regime Lives On Until 2028
On July 9, a majority of the European Parliament voted to end the EU's mass message-scanning regime — 314 against, 276 for. It survived anyway. Becaus...
Chat Control Rises From the Dead: Parliament Fails to Block Message Scanning Until 2028 — By 47 Votes
In March, the European Parliament killed Chat Control 1.0. In April, it expired. Today it came back: a motion to reject the extension won the vote 314...
Chat Control's Endgame: Tomorrow, Brussels Decides Whether Every European Message Gets Scanned
On June 29, negotiators from the EU Parliament, Council, and Commission sit down for the fifth and final scheduled trilogue on the Child Sexual Abuse ...
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 ...