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This OPSEC Special Bulletin, on the left, went out to the Pentagon during the same time period that SECDEF was using an unauthorized Signal chat. The Bulwark: The top issue of the 2016 presidential election, the one that changed Donald Trump from a TV loudmouth to a world historical figure, was information security. Hillary Clinton’s …
The New Yorker [no paywall]: “Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE? The deletions began shortly after Donald Trump took office. C.D.C. web pages on vaccines, H.I.V. prevention, and reproductive health went missing. Findings on bird-flu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 22, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
TechCrunch: “Google has reported the results of an experiment it ran which removed news from search results for 1% of users for 2.5 months in eight* markets in Europe — claiming the results show that news is essentially worthless to Google’s ad business. The search giant conducted the test because European copyright law requires it …
Thanks to Patrick “PC” Sweeney Deputy Director at EveryLibrary Institute and Lynda Kellam – datalumos, the archived searchable webpages from the Museum and Library Services site, ordered deleted by Trump, are available here.
Francis Mailman Soumilas, P.C.: “Many businesses contact credit reporting companies for pre-employment screening, loan and credit card approvals, rental agreements, insurance premiums, and more. With so many businesses making decisions about you and your finances based on the information in your credit report, it is extremely important that they are accurate. Credit reporting errors can …
Privacy Guide: “There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn’t be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day. Lately, the US has been unilaterally cutting off access to critical technologies to European countries, prompting calls for “radical action” to bolster European tech stacks from EU lawmakers. At Privacy …
Toolou is a collection of privacy-first small tools for formatting, converting, and generating data. Includes: LinkedIn post date finder; JSON Formatter; Word to markdown converter (for ChatGPT); Word, character, paragraph and sentence count Essential web tools – with data privacy.The tools you were looking for with no tracking, no ads, and no data collection. The …
404 Media unlocked: “Any of these Reels could have been and probably was made in a matter of seconds or minutes. Many of the accounts that post them post multiple times per day. There are thousands of these types of accounts posting thousands of these types of Reels and images across every social media platform. …
How to Geek: “Docs is a new open-source collaborative text editor, intended as an alternative to Notion, Google Docs, Outline, and other similar web-based services. Interestingly, the project is being led by the governments of France and Germany. Docs is a web-based collaborative writing tool, with the ability for multiple people to view and edit …
Freedom of the Press Foundation: “The news business isn’t just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can’t serve that role if they’re bankrupt. And as a result, news readers often find themselves blocked by paywalls from reading important stories about government business. …
“All users are currently auto opted in so you should toggle the setting off to not share your data. A lot of buzzword AI mumbo jumbo. Here, eBay just created a New toggle switch to their modified terms of service for “Can we sell your data”. eBay’s link is https://accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences
