On July 25, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie announced a bill to cut federal funding to municipalities deploying Flock surveillance cameras. The proposal represents a shift from regulating vendors to defunding customers.
E-Evidence and the Limits of Jurisdiction: What Really Protects Your Email On 12 March 2026, Germany enacted the law implementing the EU “E-Evidence package” — a pair of European instruments (Regulation (EU) 2023/1543 and Directive (EU) 2023/1544) that quietly redraws the map of how law enforcement agencies across the European Union can obtain digital evidence … Read more
Onion Mail has been criticized publicly over the years for login failures, Tor connection issues, mobile app problems, and concerns about security architecture. Most of those criticisms were written between 2015 and 2023. This article documents what has changed since then, what has not, and how the service operates today — with verification paths for … Read more
Meta ended optional end-to-end encryption on Instagram DMs on May 8, 2026. TikTok confirmed in March it will never offer it. The Take It Down Act takes effect May 19. These three facts are connected, and the connection matters more than any single one of them. What just happened On May 8, 2026, Meta removed … Read more
Why we’re talking about ML-KEM and ML-DSA only now, when our PQCServer platform has been live and open source for two months. The context On May 5, 2026, Proton Mail announced support for post-quantum cryptography for emails between Proton users. It’s an important move and deserves recognition: the email industry needed to see a mainstream … Read more
Why your email is the most surveilled inbox you own Most people think of email as a private channel. The reality is the opposite: a typical promotional email contains between 5 and 30 invisible tracking elements. The moment you open it, the sender knows when, from which device, in which time zone, sometimes even … Read more