This week's Surveillance Report covers Microsoft removing offline Windows activation, California's new tool to delete your data from brokers, cryptocurrency theft traced to the 2022 LastPass breach, France's social media ban for under-15s, and more!

This week's Surveillance Report covers:

- Microsoft continuing to remove more offline Windows activation options as well as what you can do (besides just switching to Linux!)

- A deep-dive into California's new tool to remove you from data brokers and how I'm approaching this news as a Californian

- More age verification scares coming out of France and other countries

- LastPass data breach STILL impacting people to this day

- Defense Bulletin: Threats, breaches, and service updates

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - INTRO

00:40 - Highlight Story: Microsoft removing more Options

05:48 - California's New Data Removal Tool

13:24 - LastPass Data Breach Still Impacting People

18:50 - Support Techlore!

19:43 - More Age Verification in France, US, and more

24:04 - The Defense Bulletin

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Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore, delivering deep analysis to help you reclaim control and defend your rights.

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This week's Surveillance Report covers OpenAI's plan to prioritize sponsored content in ChatGPT answers, what to do if you're targeted by government spyware, Meta's secret playbook for avoiding scammer accountability, and more!

This week's Surveillance Report covers:

- OpenAI prioritizing new monetization models with obvious problems

- How to see if you're impacted by government spyware, and what to do about it.

- Meta's secret playbook for enabling billions of fraudulent revenue

- Defense Bulletin: Threats, breaches, and service updates

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro to Surveillance Report

00:37 - OpenAI Sponsored Content

05:20 - How to Handle Government Spyware

12:38 - Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

14:15 - Meta Embracing Scammers

22:02 - Defense Bulletin

📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORT

Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore, delivering deep analysis to help you reclaim control and defend your rights.

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A federal court just blocked Texas's age verification law—here's why that matters for the entire US. Plus: AI police cameras exposed to the internet, massive data breaches, and why we're all returning to monke for the holidays.

This week's Surveillance Report covers:

- Federal judge blocks Texas age verification (and the precedent this sets)

- AI super PACs and political manipulation

- Flock's surveillance cameras exposed online

- Major data breaches affecting millions

- Defense Bulletin: Threats, breaches, and service updates

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - Judge Blocks Texas Age Verification

06:14 - AI Super PACs

10:14 - Flock's Surveillance Cameras

17:52 - Support Techlore

18:34 - Return to Monke Holiday Message

26:34 - The Defense Bulletin

📰 ABOUT SURVEILLANCE REPORT

Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore, delivering deep analysis to help you reclaim control and defend your rights.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's Surveillance Report covers the internet's free speech protections under attack as a US Senator moves to repeal Section 230. Plus: ransomware attacks escalate with React2Shell exploitation, India orders government access to encrypted messaging, AI "superintelligence" fear is being used to justify actual corporate manipulation happening right now, and Apple still refuses to comply with EU law.

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00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report

00:40 Highlight Story: Section 230 Under Attack

09:00 React2Shell Updates

10:58 More Surveillance Attempts in India

16:38 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

18:12 AI Hype Explained

26:38 Apple is Breaking EU Law

27:16 Global Attacks on Privacy Compilation

31:44 The Defense Bulletin

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This week's Surveillance Report covers the dangerous reality that social media bans ARE age verification, India's push for even more invasive phone surveillance, a massive vulnerability actively exploited against major companies, the EU's new proposal to gut GDPR protections, Petco's escalating security disasters, border agents charging people for protecting their data, and more!

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00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report

00:40 Highlight: Australia's Social Media Ban

08:06 Vulnerability Hitting Countless Sites

09:52 India's Surveillance Tech Continues

13:30 Support Techlore!

14:50 EU's Digital Omnibus

19:56 Petco's Data Breach(es) Saga

23:20 Man Arrested for Wiping Phone?

27:20 Defense Bulletin

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This week's Surveillance Report covers India’s attempt to mandate a potentially invasive app on everyone’s phone, Chat Control updates in the EU with concerns still evolving, half of US states now being age verified, more AI Slop, butt to cloud encryption, and more! Correction: One of you caught my mistake! The poopinator device is $600 *with* a monthly subscription. Sorry about that!

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00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report

00:41 Highlight: India's Invasive App

08:28 Some Quick Announcements

09:50 Chat Control Updates

14:19 USA Age Verification

19:44 Our Sponsor: Easy Opt Outs!

21:04 AI Slop Continues

25:48 Butt To Cloud (B2C)

32:38 Defense Bulletin

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This week's Surveillance Report covers Microsoft's AI Disaster getting worse on multiple levels as well as Google's AI, Malware is stealing E2EE messages from people all around the world, and updates to Chat Control & other EU regulations, and more!

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00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report 245

00:29 WhatsApp's Phone Number 'Leak'

06:08 Surveillance Report Back @ Techlore Announcement

08:01 Google's Attacks on Android Freedom

12:48 EU Saga Part 1: Chat Control

15:56 EU Saga Part 2: Digital Omnibus

20:22 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

21:50 EU Saga Part 3: Cookies Finally Crumble!

23:28 WhatsApp Interoperability Now Live

26:26 USA's VPN Ban

29:48 Cloudflare Outage

30:50 Data Breaches & Service Updates

34:18 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

34:56 Final Words!

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Episode 245: This week's Surveillance Report covers WhatsApp's massive phone number enumeration flaw that exposed 3.5 billion users' data through poor rate limiting - potentially the largest data exposure in history. I also examine Google's new Android sideloading restrictions threatening open app distribution, the EU's concerning Digital Omnibus proposal that could significantly weaken GDPR protections, and disturbing attempts in Wisconsin and Michigan to ban VPN usage under the guise of age verification.

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Sources

00:00 Welcome to Surveillance Report 245

00:29 WhatsApp's Phone Number 'Leak'

06:08 Surveillance Report Back @ Techlore Announcement

08:01 Google's Attacks on Android Freedom

12:48 EU Saga Part 1: Chat Control

15:56 EU Saga Part 2: Digital Omnibus

20:22 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

21:50 EU Saga Part 3: Cookies Finally Crumble!

23:28 WhatsApp Interoperability Now Live

26:26 USA's VPN Ban

29:48 Cloudflare Outage

30:50 Data Breaches & Service Updates

34:18 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!

34:56 Final Words!

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After 4+ years, Nate from The New Oil is stepping down from co-hosting the pod, but Surveillance Report isn't going anywhere. Here's what's changing, what's staying the same, and how to continue listening to Surveillance Report! (Hint: Nothing changes here on the podcast!)

Surveillance Report continues with the same mission: weekly privacy and security news to keep you, your family, and anyone new to digital rights informed without requiring you to monitor every RSS feed. The show is transitioning back to the Techlore umbrella. Follow Nate below to keep up with his future updates!

Links:

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Episode 244: AI browsers are here and already pose huge risks, Windows 10 finally reaches end of life, Ring is partnering with Flock, many ICE stories, and more.

Welcome to the Surveillance Report - featuring Techlore & The New Oil to keep you updated on the newest security & privacy news.

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(00:00) Introduction

(00:29) Highlight Story (AI Browsers)

(09:31) Data Breaches

(13:07) Companies

(17:52) Research

(23:10) Politics

(27:25) FOSS

(32:02) Misfits

Surveillance Report

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