A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway
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What happened
A cluster of WIRED security stories highlights escalating privacy, surveillance, and critical-infrastructure risks: Europe’s controversial “Chat Control” regime will enable broad scanning of private messages despite political opposition; Pegasus-style spyware continues targeting EU officials; a war‑game scenario shows how Chinese hackers could cripple US water systems; and multiple high-impact data exposures and fraud vectors surfaced (LastPass credential theft, a misconfigured Dialog site exposing members including national‑security figures, Madison Square Garden’s outing-classified database,
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- wired_security
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- 2026-07-10T08:52:15Z
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- Yes
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