A Nevada judge rules that “tower dumps”, the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers, is unconstitutional
Cell towers record the location of phones near them about every seven seconds. When police request a tower dump, they ask a telecom for the numbers & personal information of every...
Q&A with Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on Medium expecting to turn a profit in 2024, distribution, training LLMs, AI-generated content, media layoffs, and more
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US DOJ and SEC file charges in an alleged $1.9B crypto fraud known as HyperFund, which collapsed in 2022, saying “the level of alleged fraud here is staggering”
- The Department of Justice announced criminal charges against two people and the guilty plea of a third person …
JPMorgan Chase is suing the founder of Frank, a student loan software startup acquired for $175M, over allegedly lying about scale by creating 4M+ fake users
The financial giant is suing the founder of a Mark Rowan-backed startup it acquired, claiming the fintech, Frank, had sold the financial giant on a “lie.”
A look at the FBI's January 6 investigation geofence warrant: Google identified 5K+ devices; dozens appear to have been in airplane mode or had data deleted
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
Twitter tests Twitter Circle, a feature for sharing tweets with up to 150 people, rather than publicly, similar to Instagram's Close Friends sharing option
Twitter today announced that it is testing a new Twitter Circle feature, which is designed to allow people to share their tweets with a smaller crowd.
DHS: American extremists used TikTok in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 riots to recruit new members and share “tactical guidance” for terrorist and criminal activity
and an indication that TikTok has crossed the brand ubiquity chasm to reach Facebook level familiarity in pop references to a platform. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @car...
Book excerpt shows how Zuckerberg and Sandberg's partnership deteriorated during the Trump era, as Zuckerberg increasingly made the biggest policy decisions
it feels ... familiar. And excited to read this tome tonight. https://twitter.com/... @seyitaylor : I'm assuming this is what the “Agrestes” episode was based on? https://twitter.c...
Book review of An Ugly Truth: an effective examination of every major Facebook scandal and shortcomings in Facebook's leadership, structure, and accountability
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — AN UGLY TRUTH Tweets: @carolleonnig , @marietjeschaake , @sarahfrier , @shee...
In a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally
The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members …
In a huge sting operation, FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat service AN0M for 3+ years to intercept messages between criminals globally
The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members … Source: Australian Federal Police .
Facebook says it has a policy letting any person initiate a takedown of a post containing an image of their residence, regardless of the post's newsworthiness
just very bad ones.” Pretty accurate! To be fair, people WANT Facebook to exercise judgment, except when they DON'T want Facebook to exercise judgment. Doing nothing is also judgme...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …
Cybersecurity firm Proofpoint filed a countersuit against Facebook after Facebook forced Namecheap to hand over phishing awareness URLs mimicking Facebook URL
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
SolarWinds hires ex-CISA Director Christopher Krebs as an independent consultant to help its crisis response after the hack
Group's software was exploited by suspected Russian hackers to spy on governments and businesses — The American technology company at the centre …
Officials say the US judiciary's electronic filing system was likely breached in the SolarWinds hack, putting highly sensitive nonpublic documents at risk
Xerox PARC sues Facebook and Twitter, accusing them of patent infringement, including through tools both companies use to slow the spread of misinformation
Xerox PARC sues Facebook and Twitter, accusing them of patent infringement, including through tools both companies use to slow the spread of misinformation
Matthew Bultman / Bloomberg Law : Tweets: @packym and @seamushughes Tweets: Packy McCormick / @packym : The people who let Steve Jobs waltz away with the GUI are patent trolls now...
John McAfee has been arrested in Spain for tax evasion after SEC sues him for allegedly promoting ICOs in 2017, 2018 without disclosing he was paid to do so
John McAfee, the 74-year-old software magnate-turned-crypto-bull, has been arrested in Spain on allegations of tax evasion, according to the Department of Justice.