Del Harvey sees too many of the same kind of tweet. It contains a screenshot of a message from Twitter’s user support, saying that a post someone reported as abusive on the site doesn’t violate Twitter rules. It’s often accompanied by commentary: “Seriously?”…
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French Government Creates Illegal Database on over 60 Million Citizens…
By setting up a single database centralizing information on the entire French population behind their backs, France’s Socialist Party (PS) government is giving the state vast repressive powers. Coming amid the state of emergency, it constitutes a fundamental threat to democratic rights…
FBI Ran 23 Child Porn Sites in Sting Operation…
The FBI reportedly ran 23 child pornography websites to try to ensnare users, according to an affidavit from the agency acquired by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)…
CIA Will Place Its CREST Database Online…
The database, known as CREST (for CIA Records Search Tool), contains more than 11 million pages of historical Agency records that have already been declassified and approved for public release.
This Story Just Gets Weirder: The Very Strange Tale of a Dating Site’s Attacks on Wikileaks Founder Assange…
For an online dating site, toddandclare.com seems really good at cloak-and-dagger stuff. Disconnected phones. Mystery websites. Actions that ricochet around the globe. But the attention grabber is the Houston-based company’s target: Julian Assange…
The Little-Known Company That Enables Worldwide Mass Surveillance…
It was a powerful piece of technology created for an important customer. The Medusa system, named after the mythical Greek monster with snakes instead of hair, had one main purpose: to vacuum up vast quantities of internet data at an astonishing speed…
Electronic Surveillance Requests Approved by DC Federal Courts Up 500% Since 2011…
Mostly secret law enforcement requests to federal courts in the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia for use of electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have increased fivefold in the last five years…
Banker Deaths and WikiLeaks Deaths Have a Common Thread…
Now it has emerged that two of the top lawyers representing Assange, John Jones in London and Michael Ratner in New York, died within less than a month of each other this year. And, Assange’s closest confidant in London and a Director of WikiLeaks, Gavin Macfadyen, died just yesterday…
The Yandex Domain Problem OR Who In Russian Intelligence Doesn’t Speak Russian?…
On March 22, 2016 William “Billy” Rhinehart, a regional field director at the Democratic National Committee, received an email from Google warning him that someone tried to access his account and that he should immediately change his password. He complied…
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Hacktivist Crew Claims it Launched Last Week’s DDoS Mega-Attack…
A group called New World Hackers has claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that rendered significant portions of the web unreachable last Friday…
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A Denial-of-Service Attack Shut Down Major Websites Across the Internet…
Denial-of-service attacks beginning in the morning and stretching into the afternoon shut down major websites across the internet today, as DNS service company Dyn was hit by at least three apparently targeted strikes…
How Could NSA Contractor Harold Martin Have Been Taking Home Classified Info For 20 Years Without NSA Noticing?…
A few weeks back, we wrote about the arrest of Harold Martin, an NSA contractor working at Booz Allen, for apparently taking “highly classified information” from the NSA and storing it electronically and physically in his home…
All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Hardware Capable of Level 4 Autonomy…
A validation period of unspecified length will be required before the fully autonomous features become available. Here’s a sentence in the press release that’s worth noting…
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Platforms Like Facebook’s Instant Articles and Google AMP Are Making it Harder, Not Easier, to Publish to the Web…
Creating content for these formats reintroduces a coding requirement, and online code is vastly more complicated today than it was in the mid-1990s…
Study: 1 in 2 American Adults Already In Facial Recognition Network…
“Looking at the sum total of what we found, there have been no laws that comprehensively regulate face recognition technology, and there’s really no case law either”…
Feds Walk Into A Building. Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones…
California’s top cops asked to enter a residence and force anyone inside to use their biometric information to open their mobile devices…
Hubble Reveals Observable Universe Contains 10 Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought…
The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded, thanks to a deep-sky census assembled from surveys taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories…
UK Security Agencies Unlawfully Collected Data for Decade…
British security agencies have secretly and unlawfully collected massive volumes of confidential personal data, including financial information, on citizens for more than a decade…
Mozilla Partnered With Voter Registration Group Teaming With Democratic Data Firm…
The “nonpartisan” voter registration group that partnered with Mozilla Firefox to register new voters for the November elections is affiliated with a Democratic data firm…
The World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Passenger Train…
The world’s first hydrogen-powered passenger train has been unveiled this week by French transport company Alstom, which will be operating the incredibly quiet and environmentally friendly…
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