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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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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.
CybersecurityFrance's worst data breaches of 2026: the ranking (spoiler: you're in it)6,167 data breaches in 2025, a record, and 2026 is already doing better. From the Almerys brother-in-law nobody ever introduced you to, to the teenager who cracked open the ANTS vault by changing one digit in a URL, here is the ranking of France's worst breaches of the…
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.
SocietyPokémon Go, 30 billion images and delivery robots: anatomy of an invisible consentPokémon Go: 30 billion images of players are now used to train delivery robots. It was all in the terms of service. But was the consent truly informed?
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
CybersecurityNew year: what are your cybersecurity resolutions?The new year gives us a chance to ask ourselves a simple, honest question about cybersecurity: am I ready for the digital world as it is today, or as I wish it were?
SocietyData breach at MédecinDirect: when digital health forgets what matters mostThe cyberattack that hit MédecinDirect, disclosed in early December, affects up to 323,000 patients. The number is already enormous. But that is not what should worry us the most.
CybersecurityFine for X, offensive against Telegram: Europe is waging war on digital freedomOn Friday 5 December 2025, the European Commission fined X, Elon Musk's platform, 120 million euros. On the surface: a simple slap on the wrist for failing to comply with the Digital Services Act (DSA). In reality?
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.
CybersecurityGmail reads your emails to train its AI, and you probably haven't turned it offGoogle has just crossed a line. And as so often, without fanfare. For a little while now, Gmail can automatically analyse the content of your messages and attachments, not to filter spam or offer you an automatic reply, but...
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.
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.
PsychologyClear brain, dense life: toward a mental hygiene for the 21st centuryWe complain of being tired, distracted, overwhelmed. But look closely and we treat ourselves like machines. Notifications in bursts. Task switching every 12 seconds.
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