A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

A batch of WIRED security stories highlights rising risks across surveillance, data exposure, and AI-enabled abuse. European “Chat Control” legislation will permit message-scanning by platforms despite lawmakers’ opposition, while Pegasus spyware and other targeted surveillance continue to surface on politicians’ phones. Multiple incidents — a misconfigured Dialog site exposing member data, a leaked Madison Square Garden celebrity database, LastPass credential theft, DMCA-driven hijacks of hacked government pages, and simulations showing catastrophic water‑system attacks — underscore threatsto