Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom16 Juli

EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance

This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a decade-old Secure Boot flaw and a Windows Defender zero-day, Texas's app-store age verification law cleared its Supreme Court hurdle while the KIDS Act moves through Congress, and LAPD just let its Flock license-plate contract expire. Plus a double-week Defense Bulletin with breaches, threats and open source news!

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This week's episode covers:

Highlight: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 despite the vote against it
Microsoft's brutal week: Secure Boot broken for a decade, a Windows Defender zero-day, and Windows share dropping below 60%
The age-verification wave: SCOTUS lets Texas's app-store law stand, the KIDS Act clears the House
The Flock resistance: LAPD lets its contract expire, National Week of Action against ALPRs coming August 16–22
Defense Bulletin: breaches at KDDI, AssuranceAmerica, Accenture, Mount Royal University, Lidl, Xsolis, and DHS's HSIN platform
FOSS+: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS, Brave containers, Organic Maps, Proton updates, Tuta migration, and more

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

(00:00) - INTRO TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
(00:56) - CHAT CONTROL IS BACK
(07:06) - MICROSOFT HAD A ROUGH WEEK
(16:30) - AGE VERIFICATION IN THE US
(19:52) - OUR SPONSOR: DAWARICH
(21:40) - THE FLOCK RESISTANCE
(23:26) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
(26:00) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
(29:12) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+

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Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.

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