Surveillance Report
The privacy and security news that actually matters, every week. Surveillance Report brings you the stories, the context, and what to do about them—so nothing gets decided about your digital life without you knowing.
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Congress Comes For VPNs, Plus FBI & Pentagon Hacks, and Chat Control Defended
Two US site-blocking bills, one that drags in VPNs and encrypted DNS. Plus the FBI and Pentagon hacks, Chat Control 2.0 stalls, and Meta's Muse stumbles.
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No Hack Needed: How Revolut Leaked Your Passport, Plus New Age Verification & Rogue AI Agents
A hacker impersonated a government agency and Revolut simply handed over customers' passports and IDs. Plus the age-verification wave and OpenAI's rogue agents.
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153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock
An ID-verification company leaked 153 million driver's licenses to a dark-web market, and it's the perfect case against ID uploads.
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Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI
Mullvad, Obscura, Apple, and Firefox all shipped VPN improvements this week. Plus Flock's police AI, Meta's $16.68B settlement, and X killing Nitter.
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Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win
Apple's iCloud Private Relay is still leaking real IP addresses weeks after disclosure and other Apple issues. Plus 737 fake VPN extensions and France's age-check loss.
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Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store
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OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone
OpenAI's rogue AI hacked more than Hugging Face, and Anthropic's did the same. Less Terminator, more big-tech negligence with faster tools.
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France Bans Under-15s From Social Media, a Hidden Device Leaves US Cars Hackable, and Courts Force Apple and Google Open
France just became the first country in Europe to ban under-15s from social media. The UK and California moved the opposite direction, hackable US cars, and more!
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EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance
The EU Parliament originally rejected mass message scanning, then passed it anyway. Plus Microsoft's decade-old Secure Boot flaw, the age verification wave, and LAPD drops Flock.