🛰️ Who really controls your messages, your machines, and your connection?

This week on Priviso Live, we follow one uncomfortable thread through three very different stories, and it lands squarely on every information security and IT desk in South Africa.

🔐 Europe's “Chat Control” is back. The EU Parliament let suspicion-less scanning of private messages continue to 2028, even though most voting members opposed it. We unpack what it means for encryption, for platforms like Gmail and Instagram, and for your POPIA accountability.

🛜 Right to repair just won big. The FTC and five US states settled with John Deere: ten years of equal access to repair tools. Why a tractor in Iowa is really a lesson about who controls the firmware in your medical devices, network gear and fleet.

📡 Satellite in South Africa. While Starlink stays unlicensed, the licensed alternatives on offer are enterprise-grade and pricier, and critics call it a lesser solution at a weaker price. We weigh the controversy fairly, the genuine resilience upside, and the dependency risk of a single foreign uplink.

💡 The common thread? In every case the real question was not the technology, it was control, and whether the person who owns the thing is the person who decides what it does.

▶️ Watch this week's episode, and tell us in the comments: where in your environment do you own the steel, but not the permission?

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