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9/22/22

New Hearing Set in Facebook Whistleblower Case Over Kenyan Moderator 'Exploitation'

Meta and its subcontractor Sama are accused of traumatizing overseas moderators. The next hearing in the case is set…

9/21/22

Whistleblower: Pentagon Purchased Mass Surveillance Tool Collecting Americans' Web Browsing Data

Sen. Ron Wyden urged inspectors general at three departments to investigate the military's purchases of large swaths…

9/16/22

Congresswoman Urges FTC to Investigate Newly Revealed Police Software Surveilling Americans' Movements

Rep. Anna Eshoo says the tool, Fog Reveal, "presents a new threat" in the post-Roe landscape.

9/15/22

Border Agents Are Grabbing Data From Americans' Phones Without Warrants and Storing It for 15 Years

The agency permits thousands of its employees to search database of Americans' cell phone info “for any reason,”…

9/15/22

Social Media Execs Submit to Time-Honored Public Lashing Before Congress

Officers of Meta, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok gathered to be grilled over their company's protracted flaws.

9/14/22

Social Media Companies Now Have to Tell California What Their Hate Speech and Disinfo Policies Are

Gov. Gavin Newsom says a law requiring social media companies to disclose their policies in detail will protect…

9/10/22

Biden Issues Another Vague Call to 'Reform' the Internet's Most Important Law

How does Biden want to change Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? It's unclear — and maybe that's fine.

9/9/22

What Is 'Fog Reveal,' the Police App Tracking Your Phone?

A little-known company helps cops track your location. They don't need a warrant, and only a new law can stop them.

9/7/22

Surveillance Is Getting Less, Not More, 'Orwellian'

When everything is “Orwellian,” nothing is. 1984's author would loathe how we invoke his name.

9/6/22

CNN Hires Ex-Cop Accused of Lying About NYPD's Surveillance of Muslims

A New York City councilwoman says new CNN hire John Miller 'lied to my face' under oath.

8/31/22

Trump's Top-Secret Document Stash Revealed

A photo in a court filing Tuesday shows a trove of classified material discovered in Trump's Mar-a-Lago office.…

8/29/22

Facebook Agrees to Settle 4-Year Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal

Zuckerberg is "desperate to avoid being questioned," says the reporter who blew the scandal wide open.

8/26/22

Read the [Redacted] Affidavit Justifying the FBI's Search of Mar-a-Lago

The document contains numerous references to "human intelligence" and other highly guarded national secrets.

8/19/22

New Pentagon Budget Could Force the Military to Disclose When it Buys Americans’ Location Data

The House approved a little-discussed budget amendment requiring the Pentagon to make its data purchases public. Now…

8/18/22

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act Would Be a Bipartisan Triumph—If it Could Pass

Experts and senators largely agree on Congress' most ambitious push to pass national privacy reform yet, but the…

8/16/22

Lawmakers Demand FBI, DHS, and Others Reveal Purchases of Personal Data That Circumvent Warrants

In a letter to their directors, seven agencies are asked to provide Congress with records about their purchases of…

8/16/22

Dems Threaten Homeland Security Watchdog Over 'Obstruction' of Probe Into Secret Service Texts

Homeland Security's inspector general faces a new wave of pressure to step aside or cooperate with congressmen in…

8/12/22

Read the Search Warrant for Mar-a-Lago for Yourself

A receipt of items seized by the FBI includes highly sensitive papers, some classified above "top secret".

8/11/22

FTC Is Exploring Ways to Crack Down on Big Tech's Obsession With User Data

The agency said it wants to rein in big tech’s ravenous consumption of user info, and wants citizens to tell them…