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Gizmodo: “The FBI raided the home of The Washington Post reporter and “federal government whisperer” Hannah Natanson last week. The agency seized her private laptop, work laptop, work phone, a 1 TB portable hard drive, a Garmin running watch, and a voice recorder she uses for work, according to newly released court documents. For the …
Hackernoon: “…The scale of the operation is staggering, but the engineering challenge is even deeper. How do you build a machine that can ingest the sprawling, dynamic, and ever-changing World Wide Web in real-time? How do you store that data for centuries when the average hard drive lasts only a few years? And perhaps most …
Wired [no paywall]: “A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. When immigration agents enter hospitals and private companies are allowed to buy and sell data that reveals who seeks medical …
Follow up to FBI Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist in a Leak Investigation see also The Intercept – FBI’s Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You. “Workplace printers don’t just track file names — in some cases, they can recall the exact contents of any file they print. Federal prosecutors …
Politico: “Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data. Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing. Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in …
PC Mag: “If bad actors get their hands on your personally identifiable information (PII), they can use it to swindle, impersonate, or even endanger you on the internet—and in the real world. One of the prime places to find PII is on Google, and while Google can’t stop that info from appearing on other websites, …
Forbes: “Google has now confirmed the biggest upgrade to Gemini we have seen. This is the culmination of recent iterations, and sees AI link all your Google platforms together to personalize its offering. For some this is a game-changer. For others, it’s terrifying. This upgrade comes first to Google’s AI subscribers in the U.S., but …
Cybernews: “A new wave of online lists is mapping out European alternatives to everyday apps and platforms, encouraging users to switch from US tech platforms and instead support local innovation, reclaiming control of their digital lives. Curated “tech swap” lists are trending across Europe. Multiple directories, forum posts, and social media threads appear regularly to …
EFF – “With a budget for 2025 that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending over the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history….U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current …
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid: “Palantir is working on a tool for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address, 404 Media has learned. ICE is using …
Android Headline: “Google has released Personal Intelligence for Gemini, a new beta feature that lets the AI give you personalized answers by securely linking to your Gmail, Photos, and YouTube history. Gemini 3 enables the chatbot to think across several data sources to answer hard questions and tailor them for you. The feature is rolling …
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the Pentagon would integrate Elon Musk’s Grok models into military systems: “Last month I took the first step toward changing how the department does business with frontier AI technologies when we announced the rollout of GenAI with our partners from Google, and I want to thank the Google team for …
