2026-02-15
DHS is using subpoenas to try to identify people who criticize ICE or track their locations. “In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta ... have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas” They have complied with some of them. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
2026-02-14
DHS is using subpoenas to try to identify people who criticize ICE or track their locations. “In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta ... have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas” They have complied with some of them. Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
Sources: the US DHS recently sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas, which do not need a judge's approval, to tech firms to identify people critical of ICE
The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment …
2024-08-03
Is this legal? Musk's “America PAC” is running ads telling people it will help them register to vote. But if they live in a swing state, it collects their address, cell phone number, and age, and then tells them thank you. It never registers them; only harvests their data. [image]
CNBC
A look at Musk-backed America PAC's “Register to Vote” online campaign, which collects users' personal data in swing states, but does not help them register
https://www.cnbc.com/... (NYTimes had reported in July, “The group has taken pains to be secretive. Joe Lonsdale...played a key role in the group, recruiting many of his friends —...
2023-10-07
This is why the SEC is asking a federal court to force Elon Musk to testify in its investigation into his Twitter purchase. He has been defying a subpoena for nearly a month because, for some strange reason, he doesn't want to answer questions under oath.
Bloomberg
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg :
Elon Musk was given four months notice when served with a subpoena to testify. He said he'd be there. Then at the last minute, he started making excuses. When the SEC accommodated him by offering to let him testify any time and any place he wanted... He just flat out refused. [image]
Bloomberg
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg :
2023-10-06
Elon Musk was given four months notice when served with a subpoena to testify. He said he'd be there. Then at the last minute, he started making excuses. When the SEC accommodated him by offering to let him testify any time and any place he wanted... He just flat out refused. [image]
Bloomberg
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
- Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
This is why the SEC is asking a federal court to force Elon Musk to testify in its investigation into his Twitter purchase. He has been defying a subpoena for nearly a month because, for some strange reason, he doesn't want to answer questions under oath.
Bloomberg
Filing: the US SEC sues Elon Musk to force him to testify in its probe into his Twitter takeover in 2022, after Musk failed to appear for testimony in September
- Agency says that billionaire failed to appear last month — Musk attorney says that his client testified multiple times
2022-06-01
Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch wanted to allow Texas to enforce a law to prevent “West Coast oligarchs” from silencing “conservative viewpoints and ideas.” The law would have allowed Texas citizens to sue social media companies for “censoring” them. https://twitter.com/...
Bloomberg Law
SCOTUS blocks Texas' social media content moderation law in a 5-4 vote, putting the measure on hold while a constitutional challenge proceeds in a lower court
The US Supreme Court blocked a Texas law that critics say would fundamentally transform Twitter Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook …
2022-05-10
Thanks to a groundbreaking Illinois privacy law around biometric data, and a suit by the ACLU, Clearview AI is now banned from selling our “faceprints” to most businesses across the entire country. Unfortunately, government agencies still use it. That needs to be addressed. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Clearview AI reaches a settlement with the ACLU by agreeing to stop selling or offering free access to its facial recognition database to most US businesses
2021-12-16
Yes, who did first develop the NSO exploit and how did they get it? And where else is it being used? Excellent questions. https://twitter.com/...
Project Zero
A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit, captured in the wild by Citizen Lab and one of the most sophisticated Google's Project Zero has seen
We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple's Security Engineering and Architecture …
2021-10-24
Please read this. So many of us have been shouting for years that Facebook is *knowingly* facilitating extremism, and yet they've continued to get a pass in our media, as if they were somehow “trying.” Their own internal documents repeatedly prove that they knew. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Docs: Facebook user reports of “false news” hit ~40K per hour on January 6; the Instagram account reported most often for inciting violence was @realdonaldtrump
Relief flowed through Facebook in the days after the 2020 presidential election.
Please read this. So many of us have been shouting for years that Facebook is *knowingly* facilitating extremism, and yet they've continued to get a pass in our media, as if they were somehow “trying.” Their own internal documents repeatedly prove that they knew. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
2021-10-23
Please read this. So many of us have been shouting for years that Facebook is *knowingly* facilitating extremism, and yet they've continued to get a pass in our media, as if they were somehow “trying.” Their own internal documents repeatedly prove that they knew. https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Internal docs: Facebook employees created a test account in 2019 and within days it was recommended extreme and conspiratorial content, including QAnon Groups
In the summer of 2019, a new Facebook user named Carol Smith signed up for the platform, describing herself as a politically conservative mother …
Please read this. So many of us have been shouting for years that Facebook is *knowingly* facilitating extremism, and yet they've continued to get a pass in our media, as if they were somehow “trying.” Their own internal documents repeatedly prove that they knew. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Internal docs show the extent of Facebook's knowledge of extremist Groups on its site but don't offer a complete picture of its decision-making in response
Company documents show that the social network's employees repeatedly raised red flags about the spread of misinformation and conspiracies …
2021-10-15
House Dems have introduced a bill to modify Section 230. 👏 This is excellent news. However, their desire to limit the changes to only companies with 500M monthly users is very misguided. (And no, it does not “turn off” the Facebook newsfeed") https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Bipartisan Senate legislation announced Thursday would ban tech companies from self-preferencing and anti-competitively discriminating against businesses
because @EnergyCommerce Dems still don't understand how #Section230 works https://twitter.com/... Alex Harman / @citizenalex3 : The bipartisan American Innovation and Choice Online...
2021-10-07
Deputy AG Lisa Monaco announced the creation of a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, whose goal will be to “strengthen” the Justice Department's ability to disable financial markets that allow cybercriminals to “flourish.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
DOJ says it will create a National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, focusing on crimes by exchanges and other services, recovering lost assets, and more
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco on Wednesday unveiled two new Justice Department enforcement initiatives aimed targeting cryptocurrencies … Source: U.S. Department of Just...
2021-08-19
The tactics overall show such a high degree of skill that analysts believe at least one public relations firm is advising the Taliban on how to push key themes, amplify messages ... — much like corporate and political campaigns do across the world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
Financial Times
WhatsApp shuts down Taliban helpline in Kabul that was allegedly for reporting violence and looting, as Facebook blocks other “official Taliban channels”
2021-07-05
The attack is being publicly attributed to Russia-linked group REvil, the same group that previously attacked Brazilian meat packing company JBS. h/t @leesgirl9 https://twitter.com/...
The Record
Coop, one of Sweden's largest supermarket chains, shuts down nearly all of its 800 stores after one of its contractors was hit in the Kaseya ransomware attack
The attack is being publicly attributed to Russia-linked group REvil, the same group that previously attacked Brazilian meat packing company JBS. h/t @leesgirl9 https://twitter.com/...
The Record
In a post on the REvil dark web blog, the gang takes credit for the Kaseya attack, claims it infected 1M+ systems, and demands $70M in bitcoin for the decryptor
The REvil ransomware gang is asking for a $70 million ransom payment to publish a universal decryptor that can unlock …
2021-07-04
🚨 Ransomware incident in progress. If you run a Kaseya VSA server, Kaseya is recommending that you shut it down right now, because the first thing that the attack does is take away your admin access. h/t @TeresaCCarter2 https://helpdesk.kaseya.com/ ...
BleepingComputer
REvil is pushing ransomware via an update for Kaseya's IT management software, hitting hundreds of managed service providers with thousands of customers
A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack.