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Highlight: WhatsApp ‘Data Breach’

https://www.wired.com/story/a-simple-whatsapp-security-flaw-exposed-billions-phone-numbers/

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/6712070553754-Phone-Number-Privacy-and-Usernames

Google’s ‘Sideloading’ Saga

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/f-droid-calls-for-regulators-to-stop-googles-crackdown-on-sideloading/

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-power-users-install-unverified-apps-3615310/

Chat Control

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115552705437735549

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115571721648039969

https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115575902901048016

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat-control-proposal-still-poses-high-risks-despite-removal-of-mandatory-scanning-experts-warn/

https://www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2025/11/14/mullvad-vpn-present-and-then/

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

Digital Omnibus

https://noyb.eu/en/eu-commission-about-wreck-core-principles-gdpr

https://edri.org/our-work/forthcoming-digital-omnibus-would-mark-point-of-no-return/

Cookie Crumble

https://www.theverge.com/news/823788/europe-cookie-prompt-browser-changes-proposal

WhatsApp Interopability

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/11/messaging-interoperability-whatsapp-enables-third-party-chats-for-users-in-europe/

Winsconsin’s VPN Ban

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

Cloudflare Outage

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/cloudflare-hit-by-outage-affecting-global-network-services/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

Data Breaches & Updates

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a69384313/hyundai-data-breach-details/

https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/logitech-cybersecurity-incident-zero-day/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jaguar-land-rover-cyberattack-cost-the-company-over-220-million/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pennsylvania-ag-confirms-data-breach-after-inc-ransom-attack/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/doordash-email-spoofing-vulnerability-sparks-messy-disclosure-dispute/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/17/doordash-confirms-data-breach-impacting-users-phone-numbers-and-physical-addresses/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/princeton-university-discloses-data-breach-affecting-donors-alumni/

https://www.404media.co/ai-porn-secret-desires-chatbot-face-swap/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/

https://nerds.xyz/2025/11/firefox-145-better-privacy-pdf-notes/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-updates/

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_2/

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1502/

https://novacustom.com/product/shiftphone-8-1-with-iodeos/?wcmlc=USD&reloaded=1

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fixes-new-chrome-zero-day-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/thunderbird-adds-native-support-for-microsoft-exchange-accounts/