FOIA docs: White House officials used auto-deleting Signal chats even after Trump advised in April 2025 against using the app, raising US recordkeeping concerns
FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020
FOIA lawsuit documents show hackers who breached SolarWinds potentially had access to all “treasury.gov” email addresses from July 6, 2020 to October 12, 2020
New details about the 2020 incident. — Six years after hackers allegedly backed by Russia's intelligence services broke …
Sources and docs: a “major lapse” at Thoma Bravo's Opexus, which helps US agencies manage investigations and FOIA, let two convicted hackers delete databases
Failures in cybersecurity practices at a software company that helps federal agencies manage investigations … Bluesky: @kimzetter Bluesky: Kim Zetter / @kimzetter : Two brothers previously convicted o...
Sources: DOGE staff were ordered to stop using Slack while the group moves from the OMB to the Executive Office of the President, which is not subject to FOIA
https://www.404media.co/email/ dc4f2fa1-e993-4f30-aea1-b985998bd90a/ Mary Branscombe / @marypcbuk : so, Truth Social or X? or are they smart enough to use Signal? [embedded post] Matt Novak / @paleofu...
FOIA docs show Palantir has been in talks with the UK's Ministry of Justice about using its tech to calculate the “reoffending risks” of prisoners
OGRS & OASIS. Compared to many others systems they've been pretty well governed, and mostly in-house (two likely linked things!). This is not so much about magic prediction as a hollowing out of the...
Taser company Axon launches an AI tool that turns body cam audio into police reports to save time; critics worry it will introduce errors into crucial evidence
Should be a supplement to conventional, signed police reports. Anyything that adds searchable text to the public record, especially for videos that are currently inaccessible to the public (unsearcha...
FOIA docs: ICE used a tool called GOST to decide whether US visa applicants' social media posts are “derogatory” to the US, as part of immigration enforcement
Check out this @404mediaco story on social media surveillance docs obtained by our @ACLU_NorCal team + @ACLU. https://www.404media.co/... Terri K O / @terri@social.afront.org : This article on how the...
In a legal campaign, GOP lawmakers accuse Wikimedia, Graphika, universities, and others of colluding with the government to suppress conservative speech online
A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics. Twitter: @anneapplebaum , @jswatz , @m...
A former AI research scientist at Google details how tech companies and the US government hide their surveillance projects in plain sight
Learning about the Pentagon's drone program through FOIA requests and public filings — An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance drone flies … Tweets: @carnage4life , @theprospect , @_jack...