Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom
Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom
Techlore
WhatsApp Leaked 3.5 BILLION Numbers
36 minutes Posted Nov 20, 2025 at 8:23 am.
Welcome to Surveillance Report 24500:29 WhatsApp's Phone Number 'Leak'06:08 Surveillance Report Back @ Techlore Announcement08:01 Google's Attacks on Android Freedom12:48 EU Saga Part 1: Chat Control15:56 EU Saga Part 2: Digital Omnibus20:22 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!21:50 EU Saga Part 3: Cookies Finally Crumble!23:28 WhatsApp Interoperability Now Live26:26 USA's VPN Ban29:48 Cloudflare Outage30:50 Data Breaches & Service Updates34:18 Our Sponsor: EasyOptOuts!34:56 Final Words! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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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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