France 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 mandate and exempted open source operating systems.
🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report!
In this episode:
HIGHLIGHT: France's under-15 social media ban, the UK dropping digital ID, and California scaling back its age-gating law
A device dealers install in cars across the US that leaves them open to Bluetooth unlocking and disabling
New stats showing the majority of Chat Control reports are false alarms, and that investigations are largely targeting minors themselves
Courts forcing Apple and Google to open up: EU interoperability requirements upheld, and third-party app stores landing on Google Play
Data Breaches: Suno (55M users), South Korea's diplomatic corps, Romania's entire land registry wiped, Ernst & Young, Estée Lauder, Chick-fil-A, and Coca-Cola's Fairlife
Threats: wp2shell WordPress exploits, an Adobe Chrome extension exposing WhatsApp Web chats, a 7-Zip RCE, a critical Zoom account takeover, credit card data flowing to ICE, and period tracker Stardust sharing health data with an analytics firm
FOSS+: Signal polls in DMs, Tor Browser 15.0.19, YubiKey 5.8, native containers in Firefox 153, Vivaldi 8.1, WhatsApp's first-party encrypted backups, Briar entering maintenance mode, the Mullvad donation controversy, and our Techlore Tools v2026.07 release
📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORT Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.
Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör
Techlore. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Techlore och inte av,
eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.
