The GDPR Rewrite Stalled — Cyprus Pulled Its Text, and Ireland Inherited the Mess
The Cyprus Presidency withdrew its Digital Omnibus compromise text on June 30 after it became clear no qualified majority existed. Ireland took over t...
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Show Your ID to Speak: How 'Protecting Children Online' Became a Global Age-Verification Dragnet
In the name of child safety, the EU is rolling out an age-verification app, Brussels is preparing an EU-wide social media ban for kids, Australia has ...
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...
Brussels Calls the Feed What It Is: EU Finds Facebook and Instagram's Addictive Design Breaks the Law
After a two-year investigation, the European Commission has preliminarily found that Meta's infinite scroll, autoplay, and engagement-tuned recommende...
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...
The Other Shoe: How the Supreme Court's FTC Ruling Just Put Every EU-US Data Transfer on the Clock
On June 29, the Supreme Court handed privacy advocates a landmark win in Chatrie. The same day, it quietly detonated the legal foundation under transa...
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...
The Domino Effect, 2026 Update: Five More Countries Mandate Age Checks for Social Media
Australia's under-16 ban came into force in December 2025. Six months later, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, and Malaysia have followed with their own age-che...
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...
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 EU's Digital ID Wallet Deadline Is December 2026. Most Member States Aren't Close.
Every EU member state must offer a functional European Digital Identity Wallet by end of 2026. As of April, only four had reached public sandbox stage...
The World's Strongest Privacy Law Is Being Quietly Dismantled: How Big Tech Rewrote the EU's Digital Omnibus
The EU invented GDPR. It set the global standard for data protection, inspired privacy laws on six continents, and put real fines on companies like Me...
The EU Just Put Snapchat on Trial: What the DSA Investigation Means for Your Kids
Half of all 10-year-olds in Denmark use Snapchat. The European Commission just opened a formal investigation. Here's what predators exploit, what the ...