A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
2026-07-11T08:52:11Z•8e825e7f4230cb88efba7916c986de8bb4faa13745d7fa8c1dc09466c387bde8
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What happened
A Wired security roundup covering multiple high-impact privacy and cybersecurity stories: EU “Chat Control” legislation enabling platform scanning of private messages; spyware and targeted infections (Pegasus) found on European politicians’ devices; large data exposures and misconfigurations (Dialog, Madison Square Garden database, LastPass recurring theft); AI-assisted abuse and exploitation (Claude used to break festival ticketing, contractors testing chatbots as teens); concerns over critical-infrastructure threats (war‑game simulating Chinese Volt Typhoon attacks on US water supply); and a
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