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Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom — 362 episodes · page 1 of 4
Congress Comes For VPNs, Plus FBI & Pentagon Hacks, and Chat Control Defended
No Hack Needed: How Revolut Leaked Your Passport, Plus New Age Verification & Rogue AI Agents
153 Million Driver's Licenses For Sale, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Texas Kicks Out Flock
Apple Fixed A Leak Without Telling Anyone, Plus More VPN News and Flock's Creepy Police AI
Apple's Private Relay Is Leaking Your IP, Plus Fake VPN Extensions & France's Big Win
Signal's Biggest Update In Years, Plus Rival App Stores Arrive In The Play Store
OpenAI's Hacking Story Got Worse, Plus Iran In US Water Systems & A Felony For Wiping A Phone
France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars
EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance
Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking
Meta Hid Face-Recognition Code on 50M Phones, The UK's Device-Scanning Ultimatum & A Burner Phone Ban
Dashlane Confirms Hackers Stole Password Vaults, Pentagon Location Tracking, and Hackers Trick Meta's AI
A Rare Age Verification Win, AI Cameras On School Buses, And A License Plate Tracking Ban
A Brutal Week for Microsoft Security, Signal Threatens to Leave Canada, And Bitwarden Quietly Shifts
Linux's Rough Run, ICE's 20M Palantir Database & Android Good/Bad News
CopyFail Explained, Utah's New VPN Law, and Microsoft Edge Keeping Passwords in Plaintext
VPNs Could Make You an NSA Target, North Korea's Supply Chain Hijack & the EU Kills Chat Control
Two iOS Exploits, Google's Android Lockdown & Instagram Drops Encryption
Password Manager Vaults Aren't Private, Google Threatens Open Android, & Apple's Global Age Verification
3 Mac Attacks Explained, Discord Age Verification Goes Global & Hidden Hotel Cameras
FBI Can't Crack iPhone Lockdown Mode, Age Verification Hits 3 Countries, And Chat Control 1.0 Extended
Microsoft Gave FBI Your Encryption Keys
Microsoft Copilot's Security Failures Are Putting Everyone at Risk
Microsoft Just Removed Another Way to Activate Windows Offline
Your ChatGPT Answers Are About to Get Sponsored
Federal Court Just Dealt a Major Blow to Age Verification Laws
The Law That Protects Your Online Speech Is Under Attack
Your Age Is Now Required: Australia's Social Media Ban Explained
How India's Unremovable App Mandate Failed Within Days
Microsoft's Rare Confession: Windows AI Could Leak Your Data
WhatsApp Leaked 3.5 BILLION Numbers
Nate Steps Down + What Happens to Surveillance Report
AI Browsers Are Already Risky
Q&A: Why Don't People Care About Privacy?
The UK's Apple Backdoor Fight: Round 2!
Windows 10's Extra Year of Updates Has a Catch...
Proton Mail Account Suspensions Explained
Q&A: The Risks of Cloud-Based Password Managers
ChatGPT is Calling the Police on Users
Android Is Becoming the New iOS
Q&A: Is Kagi Safe?
Are Your Passwords Safe From This New Exploit?
Microsoft's Control Over Open Source Grows
Q&A: Ways to Make Your Phone Private
Apple Has 4 Months, Google Has Just 14 Days...
Q&A: Privacy Advice for Your Next Phone Upgrade
Thinking of Trying a Custom ROM? Think Again...
Q&A: How Do You Avoid Amazon?
Dating Safety App Puts Thousands of Users at Risk
Q&A: Do You Really Need a VPN?
McDonald's Combines the Worst of AI & Job Hunting
Android 16 is Adding AI, Even if You Opted Out!
Q&A: Top 3 Things We Wish We'd Done Differently
Facebook's Latest Privacy Invasion: Now with AI!
The Biggest Data Breach That Never Happened
Q&A: Is Windows Unfairly Hated?
Android 16's Dark Side Threatens Every Custom ROM
How Companies Sidestep Protections to Spy on You
Q&A: Is RethinkDNS Any Good?
Your Comments May Reveal More Than You Think...
Google's Latest Attack on FOSS
Q&A: Cardinal Rules of Privacy
Privacy Coins At Risk in Europe!
Q&A: Can Privacy Make You Easier to Track?
India is Trying to Block ProtonMail!
Q&A: Do We Self-Host?
Chrome Refuses to Crumble Third-Party Cookies
Q&A: Obtanium vs Play Store
Can Discord Be Trusted With Age Verification?
Q&A: Does Legislation Matter in Privacy?
Evading Windows' New Online Account Requirement
FOSS Is In Trouble!
Q&A: Keeping Passwords Safe From Malware
Apple Put Your Passwords At Risk for 3 Months!
Q&A: What Social Media Do We Use?
Amazon Echo Somehow Gets Worse
Android Backdoor Exposed: 1 Million Devices at Risk
Q&A: Overcomplicated Privacy Tools
Is It Time to Ditch Firefox?
Q&A: Deciding on the Best Password
A Critical Hit to Privacy & Cybersecurity...
Q&A: Is F-Droid Safe?
Why CAPTCHAs Are Even Worse Than You Thought
Q&A: Our Privacy Hopes for 2025
The UK is Escalating their Attacks on Encryption!
Apple's Latest Security Nightmare
This Cloudflare Trick Can Expose Your Location in Signal
Q&A: Firefox Alternatives If You Dislike Mozilla
TikTok's uncertain future in the US, criticisms of Session's safety, and tons of political updates
Q&A: The Best Private Cell Carriers
Mass-scale Tracking via Ads, Apple AI Opt-In, and the Proton Outage
Q&A: What's the Best Kind of Password?
Unintended Siri activations, Tesla can track drivers, and Bitlocker gets broken again
Q&A: Was Our Password Manager Advice Wrong?!
A Common Privacy Mistake, Chrome Increasing User Tracking, And Government-Planted Malware.
Q&A: How to REALLY Secure Your Password Manager
Windows Recall Still Sucks, Privacy Enthusiasts Use Bad Passwords, Firefox Kills "Do Not Track"
Q&A: What's the Best Antirivus for Linux?
SR205: Bluesky posts scraped to train AI, IVPN buys Safing, and the FBI encourages encrypted messaging
Q&A: Undoing Years of Not Caring About Privacy