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Legal process such as subpoenas to large platforms as an alternative to direct state surveillance, raised by Yen as Proton's core threat model.
Fraudsters posing as a verified government requester tricked Revolut into handing over sensitive records on about 640 customers. The breach defeated a human process.
Two Norwegian agencies opened criminal investigations into Telenor on Tuesday over the customer data its Myanmar unit handed the junta and the sanctioned surveillance equipment sold along with the unit.
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Meta pushed back on an ICE unmasking demand in writing, then gave the account holders ten days to hire a lawyer or lose the data. The documented record of platform resistance is a handful of cases against hundreds of subpoenas.
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Courts have treated ChatGPT sessions as standard electronic records with no privilege attached, and a May 2025 preservation order that reached deleted chats put the retention obligation on the vendor, not on a user's delete button.
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The encrypted-email company released the latest version of its chatbot Lumo in late June. Its CEO says he is no more anti-AI than anti-internet, and the interview does not say where inference runs.
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