A look at European tech firms Idemia, SITA, Travizory, and WCC, that offer AI tools to help governments surveil cross-border travelers and predict threats
Caitlin Chandler / Wired : Bluesky: @couts . LinkedIn: Frank van der Linde . Forums: r/cybersecurity and r/technews Bluesky: Andrew Couts / @couts : NEW: Companies and governments are using opaque AI...
A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap
Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap. Tweets: @restofworld , @mikeelgan , @violazhouyi , @openbarllc , @violazhouyi , @re...
Influencers on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are documenting trips to Syria, helping burnish the regime's image, often sponsored by brands, such as Surfshark
Sophie Fullerton is a political scientist and human rights researcher based in New York. — Last November, around the same … Tweets: @florida_sophia , @philklay , @neilcybart , @doylech , @florida_so...
Officials say Russian hacking group Energetic Bear breached the system that SFO staff and travelers use to access the airport's Wi-Fi, in an attack in March
Nicole Perlroth / New York Times : Tweets: @clearing_fog , @tjmcintyre , and @nicoleperlroth Tweets: ClearingTheFog / @clearing_fog : Russian hackers compromised the wifi in three different airports ...
Sources: Chinese hackers compromised telecom operators in countries including Turkey, India, Thailand, and Malaysia to track Uighur travelers there
LONDON (Reuters) - Hackers working for the Chinese government have broken into telecoms networks to track Uighur travelers in Central and Southeast Asia …
Until the US Biometric Exit Program prioritizes privacy and resolves technical and legal shortcomings, airport travelers should opt out of facial recognition
Last month, I was at Detroit's Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff … Tweets: @getdatacy , @wired , @laurenmurrow , @nxthompson , @tajhalanie...
China's border guards close to Xinjiang install Android malware on tourists' devices that scans for 70K+ files and downloads texts, calendar entries, phone logs
An APK Chinese authorities load onto the Android phones … Pierluigi Paganini / Security Affairs : China installs a surveillance app on tourists' phones while crossing in the Xinjiang Harper Neidig / T...
CBP suspends a border-surveillance subcontractor from federal contracting after it was hacked and had data, including images of travelers' faces, posted online
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A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually
filled with restaurants selling paella, tapas, and sangria, none of which have local origins, but which conform to a generic image of Spain.” http://www.newyorker.com/... Ben Detrick / @bdetrick : if ...
A look at Founders Fund-backed Grabr, which connects shoppers with travelers willing to deliver items abroad, has 500K+ users, many of which evade customs
Andrea Fuller / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @scheckwsj , @wsj , @mtsw , @jd_tuccille , @jamespmcleod , @johncarreyrou , and @rob_barry Tweets: Justin Scheck / @scheckwsj : Why is it ok for Silicon ...