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Arrests in the UK for social‑media posts have become a notable and contested trend: parliamentary and media reporting cite figures like “more than 30 arrests a day” (over 12,000 a year in 2023) while ...
Claims that iPhones have been “banned” because of Israeli spyware or that Israeli spyware is embedded on all phones are mixed with well-documented legal and technical fights between Apple and Israeli ...
is a rapidly evolving, open-source personal AI assistant that can read and act on users’ , and other connected services through messaging apps and a local gateway, enabling workflows like drafting/sen...
EU governments reached a political compromise on the so-called “Chat Control” (Child Sexual Abuse — CSA — regulation) on 26 November 2025, replacing a mandatory scanning requirement with language that...
DuckDuckGo has been funded by a mix of institutional venture firms and prominent individual backers — names repeatedly reported include Union Square Ventures, OMERS Ventures, GP Bullhound, Impact Amer...
Session, Signal and WhatsApp all use end-to-end encryption but differ on metadata handling, decentralization and features: Signal is praised for hiding metadata with “Sealed Sender” and minimal collec...
The federal government does not have a blanket technical backdoor into modern end‑to‑end encrypted apps; telecommunications carriers remain required to provide readable content when they already have ...
GrapheneOS prioritizes extreme hardening and Pixel-only compatibility, which produces strong security at the cost of convenience and broader device support . Alternatives such as CalyxOS trade some of...
Signal is run under the umbrella of the , a 501(c) nonprofit that supports the Signal Messenger app and its open‑source encryption work, and the project is sustained primarily by donations and grants ...
Session Messenger stands out among secure messaging apps for combining default end-to-end encryption with a routing layer and a recent migration to its own blockchain to support node operations. Compa...
EU governments have negotiated a contentious package known as the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (nicknamed “Chat Control”) that aims to curb online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) but has been repe...
Romance scammers routinely start on public platforms—dating sites and social media—then persuade targets to move conversations into private messaging apps where detection is harder and evidence is sil...
conversations are not end-to-end encrypted by default; currently encrypts data in transit and at rest, but the company can access (and has been required to retain) chat contents and is exploring optio...
Apple sought a legal ban and technical fixes to stop NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware from infecting iPhones after researchers and Apple found it was used to target journalists, activists and officials; Ap...
Social media claims that have been repeatedly fact-checked and largely debunked by national newsrooms, policy groups and researchers, who point to decades of data showing immigrants—documented and not...
became widely criticized as "a disaster to work with" before its ownership changed because its core design choices (anonymity, lightweight accounts) magnified moderation and safety problems, persisten...
ICE plans to expand 24/7 social‑media monitoring by hiring roughly 30 contractors and buying AI tools such as Zignal Labs to turn public posts into enforcement leads; one procurement cited a $5.7 mill...
No, available reporting provides no evidence that is retroactively scanning decade‑old private messages; the December 2025 privacy-policy changes and related product notes clarify the update concerns ...
Measured, transparent energy and , and do not exist in any consistent public dataset; available journalism and NGO estimates show wide, sometimes contradictory figures for WhatsApp and lump messaging ...
Meta will start using interactions with its “Meta AI” features for personalization and ads from December 16, 2025, but the company and multiple press outlets say this applies to AI interactions, not t...