What's buzzing in the privacy world this week
- 💬Double Counter’s Oct 4 breach left Discord IDs/usernames for ~28M accounts and IP/location data for ~27M treated as exposed.
- 🔐Ledger confirms a hidden hardware implant in a wallet linked to the CryptoBilis incident.
- German authorities use linked devices to read encrypted chats without breaking encryption.
- Canada’s Bill C-22 faces warnings over encryption and open-source security.
- EU Chat Control talks end without agreement on scanning private messages.
- Amnesty reports Moroccan intelligence used phone shops to supply spyware-infected devices.
- London rail police scanned 500,000+ faces. One false match. No arrests from alerts.
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