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Meta will strip end-to-end encryption from Instagram direct messages on May 8, citing low adoption, just eleven days before the Take It Down Act compels platforms to police intimate content.

The warrantless surveillance program authorized under FISA Section 702 is set to expire on April 20, with Congress divided between a clean reauthorization backed by the White House and reform proposals that would require warrants for searches of Americans' communications.

Spain's MiDNI app gained mandatory legal acceptance on April 2, positioning the country among the first EU member states with a fully operational national digital ID as the bloc's December 2026 EUDI wallet deadline approaches with uneven progress.

Intel's Heracles processor, developed under DARPA's DPRIVE program, performs computations on fully encrypted data without decryption, achieving speedups of 1,074 to 5,547 times over a 24-core Xeon.

At least nine bills across six states have been introduced in 2026 to regulate the collection of brain and nervous system data, as consumer neurotechnology devices proliferate and the federal MIND Act awaits action in Congress.

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after Clearview AI flagged her for bank fraud in a state she had never visited, even as Tennessee Highway Patrol considers a million-dollar contract with the same company.

Italy's data protection authority hit the country's largest bank with two separate fines totaling nearly 50 million euros for an insider data breach and unlawful customer profiling.

Signal's SPQR protocol adds a quantum-safe ratchet alongside the Double Ratchet, with server-side enforcement now rolling out to new accounts.

A software defect during an overnight update let Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland app users see other customers' transactions, account numbers, and National Insurance numbers for nearly five hours.

GitHub's new opt-out policy lets it use code snippets, prompts, and context from Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train AI models, drawing sharp criticism from developers who call it a bait-and-switch.

Firefox 149 routes browser traffic through a proxy network to mask IP addresses, offering 50 GB of free monthly data in four countries with no extension required.

Mozilla releases Firefox 149 with a complimentary browser-only VPN, side-by-side tab browsing, and automatic permission revocation for malicious sites.