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The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking records about government subpoenas aimed at identifying online critics and protest attendees. People targeted by such subpoenas could be affected.

The EU Parliament blocked a “Chat Control” provision that would have required messaging services to implement encryption-breaking mass scanning of chats. Snap’s messaging products and other platforms will not be subject to that mandatory surveillance under the blocked proposal.

U.S. senators sent letters to Snap and other major tech platforms demanding they show what they are doing to combat nonconsensual sexualized deepfakes on their services. Users depicted in such content and platform communities are affected.

Snap Inc. is being sued by the State of Texas in federal court in the Eastern District of Texas (Case 4:26-cv-00277). Limited public details are available about the statutory claims and who is affected.

Nicole Chmura filed a personal injury lawsuit against Snap Inc in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (case 2:26-cv-01732). Limited public details are available on the specific allegations.