Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom
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Congress Comes For VPNs, Plus FBI & Pentagon Hacks, and Chat Control Defended
October 4, 2026 · 39 minCongress now has two site-blocking bills, and one of them would force VPNs and encrypted DNS providers to block websites for Americans. Plus: ShinyHunters hacked the FBI and someone stole 3 million Pentagon personnel records, Chat Control…
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No Hack Needed: How Revolut Leaked Your Passport, Plus New Age Verification & Rogue AI Agents
September 17, 2026 · 36 minA hacker emailed Revolut pretending to be a government agency, and Revolut handed over customers' passports, IDs, and financial details. Plus: the global age-verification wave forcing even more ID collection (EU, California, Microsoft)…
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153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock
September 5, 2026 · 29 minAn ID-verification company, IDScan.net, appears to have leaked scans of 153 million driver's licenses, then sold on a dark-web market called Nexus. This week I break down why this breach is the perfect example of everything wrong with ID…
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Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI
August 29, 2026 · 36 minFour positive VPN stories in one week: Mullvad's new multihop modes, Obscura shipping on Windows, Apple quietly patching the iCloud Private Relay leak, and Firefox's free VPN rolling out to Android. Then it gets darker: Flock built an AI…
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Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win
August 21, 2026 · 41 minThree cracks opened up in Apple's privacy story this week: iCloud Private Relay leaking real IP addresses through DNS prefetching, WebTransport, and passkeys; Hide My Email exposing real addresses in bounce logs; and an unprecedented wave…
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Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store
August 13, 2026 · 40 minSignal just shipped its largest set of updates in years: A second phone can finally be a linked device, automatic key verification is rolling out alongside safety numbers, and there are commits hinting at registration without a phone…
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OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone
August 1, 2026 · 32 minOpenAI's rogue AI agent turned out to have hacked more than Hugging Face, and the more details come out, the less impressive it seems. Then Anthropic came forward with its own disclosure: three companies accessed during testing, two of…
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France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars
July 24, 2026 · 42 minFrance has become the first country in Europe to ban social media for children under 15. Meanwhile there's real good news elsewhere: the UK's incoming PM dropped digital ID entirely, and California's Senate killed its browser-level age…