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.

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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

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  • (00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
  • (00:46) - FRANCE BANNING SOCIAL MEDIA + MORE
  • (08:04) - A SCARY CAR EXPLOIT
  • (12:42) - STATS ON CHAT CONTROL
  • (15:16) - OUR SPONSOR: EASY OPT OUTS
  • (16:40) - APPLE & GOOGLE OPENING UP
  • (20:26) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
  • (24:18) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
  • (32:08) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
  
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