Spain
Unsealed January 6 Records Show Google Losing a DOJ Keyword Warrant Battle
The government won on a technicality about timing and the Fourth Amendment never got its day in court.
Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe’s Internet
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.
Brussels’ New Age Verification App: Hacked in Two Minutes
Governments are racing to mandate digital ID systems that turn every citizen’s passport into another entry on the next breach notification.
Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App
The six-month deadline to fix the consent screens and retention logs is the least interesting part of a ruling that quietly confirms governments are mandating surveillance infrastructure they haven’t thought through.
Spain’s HODIO Program to Monitor and Rank Social Media Platforms on “Hate Speech”
Spain’s government will now grade tech companies on speech removal twice a year, with the same officials defining what counts as hate setting the scores.
Spanish Court Orders NordVPN and Proton VPN to Block Piracy Streams
The same blocking system that once took down Amazon, GitHub, and Cloudflare is now targeting the tools Spaniards used to get back online.
Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
Spain Moves to Ban Social Media for Under-16s Nationwide
Spain’s social media ban for minors doubles as a test case for Europe’s expanding digital ID surveillance.
EU Push to Make Message Scanning Permanent Despite Evidence of Failure and Privacy Risks
A policy designed to test its own limits now pretends those limits don’t exist.
LaLiga Block Causes Spain Internet Outage and VPN Surge
A football league’s crusade to protect its broadcasts has ended up benching an entire nation’s internet.
LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions Across Spain
Entire neighborhoods of the internet are going dark just so LaLiga can keep pirated streams off your screen.
EU Commission Sues Five Member States Over Censorship Law Non-Compliance
Poland, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, and Czech Republic face EU court over Digital Services Act enforcement gaps.