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Durov Threatens to Pull Telegram from France as Crypto Kidnapping Wave Exposes State Data Risks
Telegram founder Pavel Durov issued a stark warning on April 24, 2026: Telegram would rather exit the French market e...
Discord Delays Age Verification After 70,000 Passports Were Leaked by Its Vendor
Discord has delayed its mandatory age verification rollout to the second half of 2026 - just months after a data brea...
SECURE Data Act: Republicans Move to Strip Privacy Rights From 20 States
House Republicans introduced the SECURE Data Act on April 21, 2026 - a sweeping federal privacy bill that would elimi...
France's National ID Agency Hacked: Data of Up to 19 Million Citizens Up for Sale on Dark Web
A major cyberattack on France's national identity agency ANTS (Agence Nationale des Titres Sécurisés) has exposed the...
ACLU and Coalition Oppose Surveillance in Digital ID
In a significant stand for civil liberties, a coalition of over 80 prominent organizations, including the ACLU and th...
Google Silently Handed Activist's Bank Data to ICE, Violating Its Own Privacy Promise
Google secretly handed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) the bank account numbers, credit card details, and p...
Apple Just Made the Apple ID an ID: iOS 26.4 Ships Mandatory UK Age Verification on the iPhone
Apple has quietly rolled out mandatory age verification inside iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 for users in the United Kingd...
Sony Forces Age Verification on PlayStation UK and Ireland: No ID, No Voice Chat, No Discord, No Streams
Sony has started pushing age verification onto PlayStation accounts in the United Kingdom and Ireland. From June 2026...
China Starts Physically Unplugging VPN Infrastructure: Carriers Ordered to Cut Cross-Border Access
China is no longer just filtering VPN traffic. In April 2026, Chinese carriers, data centers and content-delivery net...
Durov on EU-UK Censorship Playbook: 'Protect the Children' as Cover
On April 20, 2026, Telegram founder Pavel Durov summarized in a single paragraph what he calls the EU and UK playbook...
