Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations
enacting a loophole-ridden export control regime that failed to accomplish its big goals. By @garanceburke.bsky.social, @dakekang.bsky.social & me. — apnews.com/article/chin... ...
Inside First Wap, a European-led phone tracking company in Indonesia that has exploited the SS7 telecom protocol to target politicians, journalists, and others
Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.
Investigation: IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, and other US tech companies helped design and build China's digital surveillance state
BEIJING (AP) — The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody …
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP
This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum. — On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
Court filing: the unsealed list of X Holdings shareholders names nearly 100 entities, such as 8VC, Italy-based UnipolSai, and a fund tied to Sean “Diddy” Combs
A court filing obtained by The Post lists which firms and individuals have a financial stake in the platform.
Investigation: data broker Near Intelligence left the coordinates of nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein's island exposed online
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors … Mastodon: @wchr@mastodon.social . Bluesky: @...
An investigation details a spy tool called Patternz, which can track billions of phone profiles via ads in hundreds of thousands of apps, including 9gag and Kik
Hundreds of thousands of ordinary apps, including popular ones such as 9gag, Kik, and a series of caller ID apps …
Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings
Fun new game just dropped! Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …
Amazon sells products with titles like “I'm sorry, I cannot fulfill this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy”, as sellers use ChatGPT to write listings
Fun new game just dropped! Go to the internet platform of your choice, type “goes against OpenAI use policy,” …
Reuters temporarily removes its article titled “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with an Indian court order, and plans to appeal the decision
Reuters has temporarily removed the article “How an Indian startup hacked the world” to comply with a preliminary court order issued …
Sources and docs: Midwest nonprofit Veritas Society used geofenced data to serve abortion clinic visitors anti-abortion ads on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat
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ByteDance fired four employees after finding that they had accessed data on US TikTok users, including reporters, while trying to learn the sources of a story
ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists' physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.
How Ukrainian civilians are helping the army using apps, blurring the lines between civilians and soldiers, raising questions of international humanitarian law
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Experts say automated transcription app Otter.ai and its competitors offer only lax security that could endanger sources
Otter.ai has saved reporters countless hours transcribing interviews. Caveat emptor. — Mustafa Aksu is a wanted man. — Though he lives in Washington, D.C. …
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, data broker Mobilewalla says it was the source of some data used by the DHS, IRS, and US military for warrantless tracking of devices
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @byrontau , @anthony , @byrontau , @lrozen , @rebeccaballhaus , and @ronwyden Tweets: Byron Tau / @byrontau : How your phone became a spy...
In a letter to Sen. Wyden, data broker Mobilewalla says it was the source of some data used by the DHS, IRS, and US military for warrantless tracking of devices
Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @byrontau , @anthony , @byrontau , @lrozen , @rebeccaballhaus , and @ronwyden Tweets: Byron Tau / @byrontau : How your phone became a spy...
Internal docs: Facebook's own research shows Instagram is harmful to a sizeable percentage of users, especially teen girls, but it has taken few remedial steps
Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public
Internal Facebook documents detail XCheck, a program that shields VIP users from normal content enforcement policies, which included over 5.8M users in 2020
Q&A with John Binns, a 21-year-old American living in Turkey, who claims responsibility for the recent T-Mobile hack and says its security is “awful”
revealing your full legal name and location—is an interesting strategy. https://www.wsj.com/... Daniel Lippman / @dlippman : “The young hacker said he did it to gain attention. ‘Ge...
Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker
The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access …