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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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Border agents and ICE have broad technical means to access phone data at or near the border, including tools that can read encrypted app content after compromising a device; reporting says some spywar...
Germany criminalizes the production, distribution and possession of child pornography under Section 184b of the Criminal Code, but recent legislation and court rulings have narrowed mandatory minimum ...
Claims that Israel installed “unremovable” spyware or hardware chips in Foxconn-made phones rest on two distinct kinds of reporting in the public record: (A) forensic research showing malware signed w...
AI-generated impersonations of political presenters and candidates have surfaced across democracies—most visibly in robocalls impersonating President Joe Biden in New Hampshire and viral deepfake vide...
DuckDuckGo has publicly acknowledged a set of outside investors primarily tied to a large secondary funding event in mid‑2021 and to a series of earlier venture and secondary transactions reported by ...
You should never share a six-digit Amazon OTP with anyone because scammers request those codes to hijack accounts or confirm fraudulent deliveries (multiple outlets warn that OTPs are used in account-...
GoFundMe’s own guidance and pro resources emphasize frequent, authentic social sharing, storytelling with visuals and video, and using platform integrations (Meta/Facebook/Instagram) and peer-to-peer ...