{"podcast":{"title":"Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom","slug":"techlore-surveillance-report-1048322","podcast_index_feed_id":1048322,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/techlore-surveillance-report","website_url":"https://techlore.tech/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/waCJIN-A7ZmqYETA1T819yiZAp6CQynDAePAEsObDRA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNGMz/NTljMDhmN2NmMTcw/MDk3ZGRhNTIxYjJi/YTBkZC5wbmc.jpg","author":"Techlore, Inc.","episode_count":356,"summary":"Weekly news for digital freedom. Surveillance Report covers privacy, security, surveillance technology, and digital rights news to keep you safer online from the latest threats. Hosted by Henry Fisher, founder of Techlore, a leading digital rights media organization for over 10 years. Each episode cuts through the noise with carefully selected stories, context, historical perspective, and analysis - empowering you to defend your rights with actionable steps. Topics include: data breaches, government and corporate surveillance, Big Tech privacy policies, encryption standards, digital rights legislation, privacy tool updates and vulnerabilities, and accountability journalism. Whether you're new to digital privacy or a seasoned expert tracking the ecosystem, Surveillance Report is the weekly news brief that keeps you informed. New episodes every Wednesday. Learn more about Techlore at techlore.tech.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T04:19:02.883935+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322"},"episode":{"title":"France Banned Social Media For Under-15s, Plus A Hidden Device In Millions Of US Cars","slug":"france-banned-social-media-for-under-15s-plus-a-hidden-device-in-millions-of-us-cars","published_at":"2026-07-24T20:38:57+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322/france-banned-social-media-for-under-15s-plus-a-hidden-device-in-millions-of-us-cars","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/techlore-surveillance-report-1048322","url":"https://techlore.tech/france-bans-under-15s-from-social-media-a-hidden-device-leaves-us-cars-hackable-and-courts-force-apple-and-google-open/","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/c8b188a0/1ed964b7.mp3","summary":"France has become the first country in Europe to ban social media for children under 15. Meanwhile there's real good news elsewhere: the UK's incoming PM dropped digital ID entirely, and California's Senate killed its browser-level age mandate and exempted open source operating systems. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.com Thanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report! In this episode: HIGHLIGHT: France's under-15 social media ban, the UK dropping digital ID, and California scaling back its age-gating law A device dealers install in cars across the US that leaves them open to Bluetooth unlocking and disabling New stats showing the majority of Chat Control reports are false alarms, and that investigations are largely targeting minors themselves Courts forcing Apple and Google to open up: EU interoperability requirements upheld, and third-party app stores landing on Google Play Data Breaches: Suno (55M users), South Korea's diplomatic corps, Romania's entire land registry wiped, Ernst & Young, Estée Lauder, Chick-fil-A, and Coca-Cola's Fairlife Threats: wp2shell WordPress exploits, an Adobe Chrome extension exposing WhatsApp Web chats, a 7-Zip RCE, a critical Zoom account takeover, credit card data flowing to ICE, and period tracker Stardust sharing health data with an analytics firm FOSS+: Signal polls in DMs, Tor Browser 15.0.19, YubiKey 5.8, native containers in Firefox 153, Vivaldi 8.1, WhatsApp's first-party encrypted backups, Briar entering maintenance mode, the Mullvad donation controversy, and our Techlore Tools v2026.07 release 🧡 SUPPORT TECHLORE Become a Techlorian and keep this show growing: ★ Support this podcast ★ 🔗 SOURCES & LI…","meta_description":"France has become the first country in Europe to ban social media for children under 15. 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