Spain's High Court has closed its investigation into the use of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to target the mobile devices of top Spanish officials, including Prime Minister Pedro Snchez and Defense Minister Margarita Robles, citing a repeated lack of cooperation from Israel, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Cybernews reports that Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker has issued a forceful critique of the tech industrys pervasive data collection practices, arguing that privacy is a fundamental human right, not a luxury or a concern only for those with "something to hide."
The agency issued a Request for Information (RFI) to gauge the availability of personal, financial, location, and health data, according to a recent report by The Register.
Google has agreed to a $68 million settlement for a class-action lawsuit alleging that its voice assistant had eavesdropped on its users while providing the collected conversations with advertisers, according to CBS News.
A London High Court has awarded over £3 million in damages to a Saudi satirist and human rights activist, Ghanem Al-Masarir, after finding compelling evidence that his phone was hacked with government-grade spyware.
Technology and security executives across Australia and New Zealand warn that rapid AI adoption is fundamentally reshaping data privacy risk, as ungoverned AI tools and autonomous agents create vast new attack surfaces and expose critical gaps in identity and access controls, reports Security Brief Australia.
This incident, linked to a fraud indictment in Guam involving pandemic unemployment benefits, marks the first publicly known instance of Microsoft sharing BitLocker keys.
At least seven Jordanian human rights defenders and activists interrogated or apprehended due to their opposition to Israel's attacks against Gaza had their mobile devices' data extracted by Jordanian authorities using Cellebrite digital forensic software from late 2023 to mid 2025, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
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