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London's police made 700,000 data requests last year. Nobody had to ask a judge- 237

London's police made 700,000 data requests last year. Nobody had to ask a judge- 237

May 20, 2026 The Metropolitan Police made more than 700,000 requests to technology companies for communications data in 2025
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Europe wrote the rules for surveillance exports, then left its own member states to enforce them-236

Europe wrote the rules for surveillance exports, then left its own member states to enforce them-236

May 12, 2026 A new Human Rights Watch report has identified a specific and uncomfortable failure point in how the
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The FTC just proved a settlement can end a data broker's harm without ending its punishment- 235

The FTC just proved a settlement can end a data broker's harm without ending its punishment- 235

May 4, 2026 The Federal Trade Commission has settled with Kochava, a data broker the agency had accused of quietly
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An unclaimed breach at a critical drug-packaging supplier tests healthcare's newest fault line- 234

An unclaimed breach at a critical drug-packaging supplier tests healthcare's newest fault line- 234

May 12, 2026 West Pharmaceutical Services, one of the world's largest suppliers of components for injectable medicine delivery,
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A single breach at Foxconn just exposed how concentrated the electronics supply chain really is- 233

A single breach at Foxconn just exposed how concentrated the electronics supply chain really is- 233

June 28, 2026 When the Nitrogen ransomware group listed Foxconn on its Tor leak site in March, it wasn'
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When a ransomware gang gets ransomware'd: what The Gentlemen's leak reveals about the RaaS economy- 232

When a ransomware gang gets ransomware'd: what The Gentlemen's leak reveals about the RaaS economy- 232

May 10, 2026 In early May 2026, one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service operations running today discovered
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WannaCry at nine years: the day a stolen NSA tool became a lesson in negligence- 231

WannaCry at nine years: the day a stolen NSA tool became a lesson in negligence- 231

May 12, 2026 Nine years on, WannaCry remains the starkest illustration of a principle this publication returns to often: the
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Poland's Signal exodus reveals a pattern too consistent to call coincidence- 230

Poland's Signal exodus reveals a pattern too consistent to call coincidence- 230

June 28, 2026 Poland has told its government officials to abandon Signal for a state-built alternative — not because the
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The offense-defense balance in cyber has a shelf life, and CNAS just estimated it- 229

The offense-defense balance in cyber has a shelf life, and CNAS just estimated it- 229

May 6, 2026 Cybersecurity has operated for years on a comfortable, if uneasy, assumption: AI-driven detection tools favor defenders,
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The Fed's financial stability survey just put a name to what markets have been pricing quietly- 228

The Fed's financial stability survey just put a name to what markets have been pricing quietly- 228

March 1, 2026 The reordering itself is the story. A central bank survey is not a newspaper — it reflects what
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