Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000
A new proposal by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would use a 54-year-old privacy law to impose new oversight of the data broker industry. But first, the agency must survive Elon Musk.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.
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Credit to Author: Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000
AI-generated influencers based on stolen images of real-life adult content creators are flooding social media.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 04:00:00 +0000
More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:00:00 +0000
Built to combat terrorism, fusion centers give US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a way to gain access to data that’s meant to be protected under city laws limiting local police cooperation with ICE.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Plus: An “AI granny” is wasting scammers’ time, a lawsuit goes after spyware-maker NSO Group’s executives, and North Korea–linked hackers take a crack at macOS malware.
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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement put out a fresh call for contracts for surveillance technologies before an anticipated surge in the number of people it monitors ahead of deportation hearings.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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