Officials in Spain want to ban end-to-end encryption in the European Union, according to a leaked government document obtained by WIRED. The stance emerged as part of a survey of EU member states related to legislative proposals to scan private messages for child sexual abuse material. Meanwhile, Meta faced a record $1.3 billion GDPR fine this week over data transfers to the US. And a consortium of researchers say that for the first time, they see evidence of sophisticated spyware being used in a war zone, with findings that NSO Group’s Pegasus was used to target Armenian government workers, journalists, and at least one United Nations official in the Nagorno-Karabakh territory disputed by Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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