A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
On November 3, 2021, Meareg Amare, a professor of chemistry at Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia, was gunned down outside his home. […]
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If Musk Starts Firing Twitter’s Security Team, Run
Elon Musk is buying Twitter for $44 billion after the least sexy will-they-won’t-they saga of all time. And while Musk attempted to […]
Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem
Burmese influencer Han Nyein Oo rose to prominence in 2020, posting memes and gossip about Burmese celebrities on Facebook to an audience […]
Period-Tracking and Fertility Apps Can Put Women Seeking Abortions at Risk
According to Fox Cahn, apps that collect and store data on their own servers are particularly dangerous, both because the data can […]
Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy Is Now a Scrap Over Phone Records
In Myanmar, the phone records of pro-democracy activists connect them together like suspects on a cork board. When many of those activists […]
The Senate Is Mad as Hell at Facebook—Again
Toward the end of Thursday’s hearing on Facebook and teen mental health, Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) alluded to the Chinese government’s recent […]
Explosion in Geofence Warrants Threatens Privacy Nationwide
Police around the country have drastically increased their use of geofence warrants, a widely criticized investigative technique that collects data from any […]
The NYPD Had a Secret Fund for Surveillance Tools
New York City police bought a range of surveillance tools—including facial-recognition software, predictive policing software, vans equipped with x-ray machines to detect […]
French Spyware Executives Are Indicted for Aiding Torture
Earlier this week, French authorities indicted four former executives of the surveillance firm Nexa Technologies, formerly called Amesys, for complicity in torture […]
GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps
Discord is a perfect vehicle for these pumps, as a semi-public forum that allows users to advertise servers broadly, ping users about […]