Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022 Elon Musk, King of Twitter, this week banned people that doxed his location and sent someone to harass him when he was with his small kid. There is a guy who…
NOW – Gov. Hochul: "In the state of New York, we're now requiring social media networks to monitor and report 'hateful conduct' on their platforms." pic.twitter.com/5LctpfRuqo — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 6, 2022 Texas and Florida are trying to force social media companies to allow more…
NEW – Telegram has released user data to the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany in several cases, Spiegel reports. The NGO CeMAS monitors 3,000 German-language channels & groups for "disinformation, antisemitism, and right-wing extremism." https://t.co/ib75xumI7L — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) June 4, 2022 Bad news! Turns…
Huge: CIA mass ("bulk") surveillance has been carried out “entirely outside the statutory framework, and without any judicial, congressional or even executive branch oversight. The nature and full extent was withheld even from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence." https://t.co/qF4OowjDku — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) February…
NSO’s Pegasus spyware can take over smartphones without the victim needing to interact with links or malicious files, and once infected, the attackers can control the camera, the microphone, and use pretty much everything the phone can do to spy on people. The FBI says…
JUST IN – Meta (aka Facebook) unleashes "next-gen AI supercomputer" that will "identify harmful content" and more. — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) January 24, 2022 Facebook built an AI hatespeech detector and it started censoring people who hate whites and men. You’re supposed to hate whites and…
No one seems to know what this means. Maybe Russia is planning to completely shut off the foreign internet so they can protect their own country. Or maybe they’re worried about Islamic terrorism. Whatever the case, weird move. RT : The Tor browser, which allows…
Oh, jeez. Here we go…! I think we all know what kinds of words the government is interested in. But I’m sure everyone reading this followed my privacy advice over the last 5-10 years, and therefore doesn’t have anything to worry about. Right? Forbes :…
More or less everything in your environment is a spy device. This has happened over the last ten years, mostly, and for whatever reason no one cared, despite how obvious the implications of it were. The Sun : An Oxford professor has claimed that we…
Everyone is just waiting around to get bought by Amazon. It’s a business strategy. But Amazon, which is effectively a private intelligence agency on contract to the CIA as much as it is a retailer, owning an encrypted messaging app creates some conflict of interest.…
(Starts at 37:25, right into the “privacy by design” bit.) Google is now saying that “privacy by design” is one of their core principles. If you believe that, then you may also be interested in the new Smart Bridge that Google is selling. The Guardian…
Cloudflare wants to get rid of CAPTCHAs. They say it takes too much time to complete them, and want people to “prove their personhood” using a physical device. They say it is anonymous, but once everyone’s used to what Cloudflare proposes, it will be easier…
Mark Zuckerberg was already putting tape over his computer’s webcam and microphone years ago. Now he may want to put double tape over the microphone and block the speakers. Daily Mail : A smartphone equipped with a new ‘bat-sense’ technology allows the scientists who created…
Remember when the American government accused Huawei of being a security risk? Now the government (full text of the bill can be found here ) wants every company that makes encrypted devices and operating systems to give them the key to decrypt people’s data, effectively…
The above photo, dated 2006, was the last known image of the elusive Jogger-American Hacker Mastermind, until recently known only as “The Joggler,” snapped by a security webcam during one of his early childhood hacks – moments before he deleted the webcam with a virus.…
He suspiciously feels the need to explain that he is human. It’s amazing that Facebook hasn’t died yet. Daily Dot : A lawyer for Facebook argued in court Wednesday that the social media site’s users “have no expectation of privacy.” According to Law360, Facebook attorney…
