Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
The US Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday after congressional leaders earlier this month stripped the bill of […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers
What a week! On Monday, police arrested 26-year-old Luigi Mangione and charged him in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Mangione’s […]
Human Misuse Will Make Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at most tasks—around 2027 or 2028. Elon Musk’s prediction […]
Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expects AGI, or artificial general intelligence—AI that outperforms humans at most tasks—around 2027 or 2028. Elon Musk’s prediction […]
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
In recent years, commercial spyware has been deployed by more actors against a wider range of victims, but the prevailing narrative has […]
With Threats to Encryption Looming, Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Says ‘We’re Not Changing’
“We don’t want to be the outlier that proves the rule, we want to be a new set of rules leading the […]
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
The United States Federal Trade Commission is taking action against two American data brokers accused of unlawfully trafficking in people’s sensitive location […]
He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too
At around 5 pm on a Thursday in December 2022, a privacy- and information-freedom-focused programmer named Micah Lee learned, to his shock, […]
Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
The CFPB’s idea of using existing US law to regulate data brokers is not novel. In February 2023, a group of consumer-focused […]
China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
As further evidence of government surveillance insiders moonlighting in the data broker market, the SpyCloud researchers point to a leak earlier this […]