# EU Passes Chat Control Anyway, Plus Microsoft's Secure Boot Mess & the Flock Resistance Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsoft-s-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsoft-s-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance.md Podcast: [Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322) Published: 2026-07-16T05:58:01+00:00 Episode link: https://techlore.tech/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsofts-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance/ Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/dd0b476b/71593490.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/episodes/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsoft-s-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance Duration seconds: 2258 ## Resource This week's a double-week catch-up: the EU just greenlit Chat Control even after Parliament voted against it, Microsoft had a brutal stretch between a decade-old Secure Boot flaw and a Windows Defender zero-day, Texas's app-store age verification law cleared its Supreme Court hurdle while the KIDS Act moves through Congress, and LAPD just let its Flock license-plate contract expire. Plus a double-week Defense Bulletin with breaches, threats and open source news! πŸ—ΊοΈ The open-source answer to Google Timeline is finally here! Replay every route and light up every city you've visited on a map nobody else owns; self-host Dawarich free or grab the hosted version at https://dawarich.app/techlore/ with code TECHLORE for 20% off your first year. This week's episode covers: Highlight: EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0 despite the vote against it Microsoft's brutal week: Secure Boot broken for a decade, a Windows Defender zero-day, and Windows share dropping below 60% The age-verification wave: SCOTUS lets Texas's app-store law stand, the KIDS Act clears the House The Flock resistance: LAPD lets its contract expire, National Week of Action against ALPRs coming August 16–22 Defense Bulletin: breaches at KDDI, AssuranceAmerica, Accenture, Mount Royal University, Lidl, Xsolis, and DHS's HSIN platform FOSS+: GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, LineageOS, Brave containers, Organic Maps, Proton updates, Tuta migration, and more 🧑 SUPPORT TECHLORE Become a Techlorian and keep this show growing: β˜… Support this podcast β˜… πŸ”— SOURCES & LINKS View all sources here: https://techlore.tech/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsofts-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance/ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) - INTRO TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT (00:56) - CHAT CONTROL IS BACK (07:06) - MICROSOFT HAD A ROUGH WEEK (16:3… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/episodes/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsoft-s-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/eu-passes-chat-control-anyway-plus-microsoft-s-secure-boot-mess-the-flock-resistance.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.