When the Escape Hatch Becomes the Target: Europe Declares War on the VPN
Age-verification laws drove millions of Europeans to download VPNs. Now Brussels has noticed — and the European Parliament's research arm is calling t...
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6 articles on encryption.
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...
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 ...
China Breached the FBI's Wiretap System. The Targets' Phone Numbers Were Inside.
The FBI has told Congress that a Chinese intrusion into one of its internal surveillance systems is a 'major cyber incident.' The system — part of the...
Hong Kong Just Made It a Crime to Refuse to Unlock Your Phone
> U.S. State Department Security Alert — March 26, 2026...
The Great Encryption Retreat: Meta Kills Instagram E2EE While TikTok Refuses to Build It
In the span of two weeks, Meta announced it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs and TikTok confirmed it won't add it. The privacy imp...