The attorney general for Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit against the food delivery company DoorDash, alleging that it is wrongfully taking tips customers intend for delivery drivers. “DoorDash misled consumers, who reasonably believed that their tips would go to workers, not the company’s bottom line,” Attorney General Karl Racine said in a Tuesday statement. “We […]
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If You’ve Given Your DNA to a DNA Database, U.S. Police May Now Have Access to It…
In the past week, news has spread of a Florida judge’s decision to grant a warrant allowing police to search one of the world’s largest online DNA databases, for leads in a criminal case. The warrant reportedly approved the search of open source genealogy database GEDMatch. An estimated 1.3 million users have uploaded their DNA […]
U.S. Manufacturing Group Hacked by China as Trade Talks Intensified…
As trade talks between Washington and Beijing intensified earlier this year, suspected Chinese hackers broke into an industry group for U.S. manufacturers that has helped shape President Donald Trump’s trade policies, according to two people familiar with the matter. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) was hacked over the summer and hired a cybersecurity firm, […]
Twitter Rolls Out Ban on Political Ads Covering Candidates, Elections and Legislation…
On Friday, Twitter released details of its global ban on political advertising. The ban will go into effect on November 22 and prohibits any ads that mention specific candidates, elections or legislation. Also included under the ban are ads from PACs or 501(c)(4) nonprofits, a category that includes political messaging groups. However, Twitter will allow […]
How Israeli Spy Tech Reaches Deep Into Our Lives…
Digital age weapons developed by Israel to oppress Palestinians are rapidly being repurposed for much wider applications – against Western populations who have long taken their freedoms for granted. Israel’s status as a “startup nation” was established decades ago. But its reputation for hi-tech innovation always depended on a dark side, one that is becoming […]
‘China is building database on vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans’…
China is creating databases on the behavior, preferences, and vulnerabilities of hundreds of millions of Americans to use for intelligence purposes. Whether by hacking the US government or infiltrating American tech companies to harvest their data, China is taking all that it steals to learn everything it can about the behavior of Americans. On Tuesday […]
NSA Wants Option to Restart FISA Phone Metadata Collection, Despite All of Its Problems…
The National Security Agency (NSA) wants to keep the authority to collect phone records of international terrorism suspects and of the people the suspects call, despite having shut down the program due to multiple issues. Moreover, recent NSA testimony to Congress indicated that those issues may well reemerge if the agency decides to restart the […]
Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans…
Google is engaged in a secret project with one of the country’s largest health-care systems to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states, according to people familiar with the matter and internal documents. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of […]
5 Things You’re Downloading That Bog Down Your PC…
There’s no doubting the benefits of keeping your important files stored digitally on your computer, as opposed to papers scattered throughout the house. But that added convenience doesn’t necessarily make those files any safer — even if you have them password-protected. Not protecting your files is just one way you’re putting your computer at risk. […]
Charges: Chinese Surveillance Goods Illegally Sold to U.S….
A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The fraud that prosecutors allege by Aventura Technologies Inc. raised “a grave concern” […]
Inside Amazon’s Plan for Alexa to Run Your Entire Life…
The creator of the famous voice assistant dreams of a world where Alexa is everywhere, anticipating your every need…The crux of the plan is for the voice assistant to move from passive to proactive interactions. Rather than wait for and respond to requests, Alexa will anticipate what the user might want. The idea is to […]
House Dems Deal Death Blow to Domestic NSA Phone Spying…
Eighteen years after George W. Bush and the National Security Agency began secretly and warrantlessly collecting the phone records of every American, the House of Representatives is taking a major step to kill the vestige of one of the most controversial domestic surveillance programs in American history. That step, The Daily Beast has learned, is: […]
The Next Freakout: Foreign Spies in Surveillance Valley!…
I’m back in New York for now and am working on a longer letter about my recent trip to Israel and Palestine. In the meantime, I want to flag a piece of news that sits at the intersection of a few issues that are close to my heart: immigrants, xenophobic national security panics, and Silicon […]
The Threat(s) of Chinese Nationalism.
The Great Firewall is probably the best-known feature of the complex censorship system in China. It’s how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) censors what anyone in China can see on the internet. Everything from popular western websites like Wikipedia and YouTube, information about the Tiananmen Square Incident and the Dalai Lama, and most foreign films […]
Amazon Ring Doorbells Exposed Home Wi-Fi Passwords to Hackers…
A new report from security researchers alleges that Amazon Ring doorbells have exposed users’ home Wi-Fi passwords to hackers. TechCrunch reports that security researchers at Bitdefender have claimed that Amazon Ring doorbells were sending users Wi-Fi passwords in cleartext as the doorbell joins the home network. This would allow hackers to intercept the Wi-Fi password […]
Mozilla: ISPs Are Lying About Encrypted DNS, Should Have Privacy Practices Investigated…
In a bid to avoid losing access to the cash cow that is your daily browsing data, ISPs like Comcast have been lying about Google and Mozilla’s quest to encrypt DNS data. The effort would effectively let Chrome and Mozilla users opt in to DNS encryption — making your browser data more secure from spying […]
U.S. Opens National Security Investigation Into Chinese-Owned TikTok…
A national security review of Chinese-owned TikTok’s $1 billion acquisition of U.S. social media app Musical.ly has been opened by the U.S. government, three unidentified sources told Reuters. U.S. lawmakers have only recently called for a national security probe into the popular Chinese video-sharing app, though the acquisition by TikTok—which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance […]
While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports, Real ID…
The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes the establishment of the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and a never-ending international war against a nebulously-defined, noncorporeal enemy, “terror”) is less than one year from coming to fruition. Beginning no […]
Edward Snowden: ‘It is not data that is being exploited, it’s people’…
Edward Snowden urged tech companies to challenge the practice of widespread data collection by corporations in a speech on Monday, saying not enough progress has been made since he blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) data scrapping in 2013. Speaking via video link at the opening of the Web Summit conference in […]
Modernizing Congress Is a National Security Imperative…
Imagine the U.S. in a modern emergency situation — a solar flare, a suspicious electrical grid failure, a pandemic, or bio attack — and the order went out to cease all movement nationwide. This type of situation has happened in recent memory. During the days following Sept. 11, 2001, the grounding of planes across the […]
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