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...
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10 articles on encryption.
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 ...
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...
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...