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A European Commission proposal could create one of Europe’s largest privacy and national-security risks in decades. techletters.substack.com/p/the-european… Through DMA enforcement, it may compel Google to hand over sensitive search data about millions of Europeans to third parties, including entities that could be used as fronts by hostile actors. The privacy risk is serious. The national-security risk is real.




'Here is an uncomfortable truth for hand-wringing policymakers: Europe’s dependency on America is in no small part Europe’s own fault. Decades of over-regulating the old continent’s economy left businesses there unable to compete with American firms' economist.com/europe/2026/04…





OFCOM fines 4Chan (round 2): £20k fine in Oct 25, and now a new fine £520k for different breaches of Online Safety Act. Since Oct 25 fine unpaid, no need to guess that 4Chan will not pay new fine. Is this case now on the road to court-ordered "business disruption measures" (ss144-8)? Whatever your take on Online Safety Act (4Chan: sovereignty-busting overreach v OFCOM: you are UK-linked so play by UK rules), this is going to be an important test of OFCOM's resolve, and I suspect some political resolve if US Administration gets involved (as 4Chan will be hoping).









Spain approves plan to give around 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status bbc.in/4tGrlZi








