VPN & Encryption
Utah VPN Law Ruling Blocks Impossible Geolocation Rule in SB 73
A federal court has paused enforcement of a Utah provision that would have required a level of location accuracy VPN technology cannot deliver. The Utah VPN law ruling is an early signal of how courts...
Chat Control 2.0 Trilogue Outcome: No Mass Scanning Deal Yet
The latest negotiation on the EU's Child Sexual Abuse Regulation (CSAR), widely known as Chat Control 2.0, has ended without the deal critics feared. According to a post-trilogue update from Patrick B...
Utah VPN Law Injunction: Judge Barlow Blocks SB 73 on Sept. 24
A federal court has paused one of the most aggressive attempts yet to regulate VPN use at the state level. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other coverage, U.S. District Judge...
Citizen Lab Flags Encryption Risks in Canada's Bill C-22
Citizen Lab, the research group based at the University of Toronto, has published a submission analyzing Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act. Its title, "(Un)forced Errors," signals the core message: the...
Rand Paul Blocks KOSA Unanimous Consent Push in Senate
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked a bipartisan attempt to pass the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) by unanimous consent on Wednesday. The move stalled a fast-track effort and left the bill, along with its ...
Leaked EU Papers Show Chat Control Via Administrative Orders
Leaked EU documents point to a new route for chat control: rather than writing an explicit mandate for scanning private messages into law, member states may be aiming for the same outcome through admi...
TLS Certificate Revocation Iran, Russia: GlobalSign Fallout
Sanctions compliance has reached a layer of the internet most people never think about: the certificates that let browsers trust a website. Recent reporting, including a Risky Bulletin item titled "Sa...
Fight for the Future Seeks to Beat 20,000 at Defend VPNs Day
Digital rights group Fight for the Future is running a second Defend VPNs Day of Action, and it has set a clear goal: beat the 20,000 people who took action last year. The campaign arrives as age veri...
Chat Control Trilogue Round Six: Search Plans Under Fire
The sixth EU trilogue on Chat Control 2.0 opens today, and the central dispute is sharper than ever. Negotiators are clashing over a mass-scanning plan that the Council's own lawyers reportedly warned...
Pentagon Data Breach 4 Million: Months Undetected, Unencrypted
A Pentagon data breach of up to 4 million people is drawing attention for two reasons beyond its size: the intrusion reportedly went undetected for months, and the exposed records were unencrypted. In...