Digital security for lawyers: protecting client data in 2026.
Adversaries targeting law firms are not opportunistic.
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You don’t have to be a suspect. You just have to have been there.
Hankey v. United States: the Supreme Court heard arguments on April 26, 2026 on whether a warrant targeting a geographic area, not a person, is constitutional. Your phone’s location history is the evidence.
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Client confidentiality in the digital age: the tools lawyers actually need.
Proton Mail provides end-to-end encryption by default between Proton accounts.
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Digital security for journalists. The complete operational guide.
The operational digital security protocol for journalists in 2026. 12 steps from threat modelling to incident response. Written for people with real stakes.
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A journalist was arrested in Kuwait for reposting a CNN video. The law used to charge him didn’t exist yet when he posted it.
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested in Kuwait for reposting CNN footage of a US fighter jet crash. The law used to charge him was enacted twelve days after his arrest.
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Data brokers publish your address. For military families, that is a threat.
Data brokers aggregate public records, social media activity, and commercial databases.
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The US government now requires visa applicants to make their social media public.
As of March 30, 2026, US visa applicants must set all social media profiles to public before their interview. For journalists, lawyers, and NGO workers, this means exposing source networks to government vetting.
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Border agents can search your laptop without a warrant.
At a US port of entry, a border agent can search the entire contents of your laptop, phone, and any other device with no warrant, no probable cause,.
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You can be tracked through a VPN. The documented cases.
Yes, in several documented ways. A VPN masks your IP address from the sites you visit and encrypts traffic between your device and the VPN server.
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The FBI recovered deleted Signal messages from a seized iPhone. The encryption wasn’t broken.
On March 10, 2026, FBI testimony in a federal trial in Texas revealed that investigators had extracted incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app.
