Google’s top privacy and security staff have warned that plans in Europe, designed to get it to open up its search data and Android operating system to competitors, could lead to people’s search queries being hacked and an increase in… Read More "Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change"
The European Parliament has voted to extend legislation allowing tech companies to voluntarily scan users’ private messages for child sexual abuse material, despite a majority of lawmakers voting against the proposal. The ruling reinstates permissions for firms including Meta, Google,… Read More "A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway."
A politician on the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee—created to investigate spyware abuses, including of the notorious Pegasus malware—was targeted with Pegasus himself, according to new research findings released this week. Meanwhile, top Google security staff warned this week that the… Read More "Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email"
The research stops short of naming any government that may have used Pegasus against Kouloglou, noting in particular that it found no indication of Greek government involvement. But Citizen Lab does say it found overlaps between the attacks on Kouloglou’s… Read More "EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones"
