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Cyber revue · Governance & the human factor
Edition of 13 September 2026 · No. 148Independent pressGran Canaria · Bilingual FR·EN
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Cybersurveillance
13 analyses on this topic, from the most recent to the oldest.
Cybersecurity153 million identity documents for sale, and not one stolen from a careless userA criminal service put the licence scans of 153 million Americans and Canadians up for sale this week. Not one of those documents came out of a phishing campaign: they were produced by routine checks, required by professionals, in situations where everyone did what they were asked. The theft comes at the end of this story, and everyone is looking at the end.
PoliticsOn 1 January 2027, France will verify the identity of all its adultsThe law passed on 21 July bans social media for under-fifteens. To enforce it, it requires forty million adults to prove their identity before they can speak. Only one of the two measures was debated; it is the other that will remain.
PoliticsChat Control: when Parliament revotes until it gets the right resultIn March, the European Parliament rejected Chat Control by 311 votes to 228. On Thursday, it revotes the same text, with no substantial change, under voting rules recalibrated to guarantee its adoption. The story of a revote, and of what it says about the value of a parliamentary decision.
CybersecurityA month in Russia: the day fourteen VPNs went downThree hours after landing, every one of my VPNs is down except one. An account of the first twenty-four hours in the most heavily filtered country on my route, and what it teaches about security on the road.
CybersecurityHong Kong: when refusing to hand over your password becomes a confessionSince 23 March 2026, Hong Kong police can demand the password of any device, and refusal is a criminal offence. An extension written into the national security law, one that also targets third parties and reaches passengers simply in transit.
SocietyReCyF, backdoors and USB sticks: France in cybersecurity, between clarity and anachronismFrance produces a cyber framework of international quality while being incapable of passing the law that makes it applicable, because the DGSI wants to read your Signal messages. And the framework itself illustrates human risk with a USB stick in 2026.
CybersecurityAn innocent photo can turn your phone into a silent spyA WhatsApp message arrives. A photo downloads on its own, the way it happens millions of times a day. You do not click. You do not open it. You do nothing. And yet your phone has become a spy
CybersecurityWhen a prayer app becomes a weapon: the psychological cyberwar at the heart of the Iran-US-Israel conflictOn February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched massive joint strikes against Iran. Since then, daily life for millions of Iranians has come down to sirens, explosions, power cuts and a near-total internet blackout, against a backdrop…
CybersecuritySpyware: when the State outsources the spying on your phonesANSSI has just published a detailed report on the threat targeting mobile phones. Vulnerabilities, "zero-click" infection chains, cybercriminals, but above all a private surveillance market that sells spying capabilities to States with little regard for civil liberties.
CybersecurityChat Control 2.0: Europe is playing with our digital freedomsIt is one small line in an obscure text. An article barely mentioned in the mainstream press. A closed-door meeting in Brussels.
CybersecurityWhen artificial intelligence turns spyFor the first time, a mainstream artificial intelligence model was used to run a cyberespionage operation orchestrated by a state-affiliated group.
SocietyNovember 13, 2025. Commemorate, or keep looking away?Ten years since Paris froze in horror. Ten years since French citizens were gunned down on a terrace, in a concert hall, in the streets of their own country.
PoliticsWhen Naive Environmentalism Becomes a Strategic VulnerabilityNorway has just made an explosive discovery: 850 electric buses running in Oslo can be stopped remotely by their Chinese manufacturer.
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