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Privacy

In an era of constant connectivity, we explore the balance between security and personal freedom, keeping you informed on the digital and physical developments that affect your rights.

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  • Taylor Hill/FilmMagic via Getty Images
    Mar 20
    3m read

    Jeff Bezos wants $100 billion to push more AI into manufacturing

  • The U.S. is officially spending more money building data centers than office spaces, according to Bloomberg.
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    Mar 20
    2m read

    Why the US is now constructing more data center space than offices

  • FBI
    Mar 19
    3m read

    FBI seizes Iranian-linked hackers’ websites following cyberattack

  • More than 8.3 million records from the anonymous crime tip company that powers Crime Stoppers have been exposed by hackers.
    Mar 18
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    Millions of ‘anonymous’ crime tips exposed in massive Crime Stoppers hack: Exclusive

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  • A website that lets users simulate a nuclear attack has seen an uptick in users amid the ongoing war with Iran.
    NUKEMAP
    Mar 11
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    What a bomb would do: Website visualizes nuclear attacks

  • A crippling cyberattack on Stryker, a global medical technology company is linked to an Iranian hacker group.
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    Mar 11
    2m read

    Iranian-linked hackers cite airstrike on school for cyberattack on medical firm

  • Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cell phone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.
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    ICE uses this device to surveil cell phones. You can buy one for $50,000

  • Anthropic filed two lawsuits against the U.S. government after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth effectively blacklisted the company.
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    Mar 9
    4m read

    Anthropic says military blacklisting was retaliatory in lawsuit filings

  • Several states are now considering or have passed legislation to regulate the use of artificial intelligence for health purposes.
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    Mar 9
    7m read

    States look to tell AI what jobs it can’t take, as UBI calls get louder

  • A wrongful death lawsuit filed against Google accuses the company’s AI chatbot Gemini of driving a man to kill himself.
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    Mar 4
    4m read

    Man believed Google’s AI chatbot was his wife. It told him to kill himself, lawsuit says

  • President Donald Trump and tech companies signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, hoping to alleviate extra costs from data centers.
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    Mar 4
    3m read

    Trump signs Ratepayer Protection Pledge: What that means for you

  • Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.
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    Mar 3
    3m read

    You’re not the only one seeing what you record on Meta smart glasses, contractors say

  • A new study shows the algorithm used by X, still commonly referred to as Twitter, is helping shift users’ political views to the right.
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    Mar 3
    5m read

    Social media like X changes your politics whether you want it to or not

  • Cybersecurity experts monitoring the ongoing war in the Middle East discuss whether Iranian cyberattacks against the U.S. are likely.
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    Mar 3
    4m read

    Is the US at risk from Iranian cyberattacks?

  • A Milwaukee police officer is charged with tracking his ex-girlfriend and her ex with Flock license plate reader cameras.
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    Feb 26
    3m read

    Police officer’s arrest highlights private surveillance concerns over Flock cameras

  • License plate reader camera audit logs, police, sheriffs and an accused vandal highlight a trend of deconstruction against Flock cameras.
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    Feb 26
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    Vandals target Flock cameras. Police use Flock to catch them

  • The Pentagon has threatened to blacklist Anthropic from working with the military unless it gives them full access to its AI system. 
    Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images
    Feb 25
    5m read

    How Anthropic will lose more than $200 million if it refuses Pentagon demands

  • A bipartisan aviation safety bill drafted after a fatal midair collision near Washington has been rejected in the House, stalling its path forward. The ROTOR Act fell short of the two-thirds majority necessary to pass under fast-track rules on Tuesday. The bill failed, 264–133, one day after the Pentagon withdrew its support, a reversal that The New York Times reported fueled opposition in the House. More than 130 Republicans voted against the measure.
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    Feb 25
    4m read

    Pentagon sinks ROTOR Act, the air safety bill responding to DC midair crash

  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth has given Anthropic until end of day Friday to give the U.S. military unfettered access to its AI model, Claude.
    AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File
    Feb 25
    2m read

    Hegseth gives Anthropic deadline to give military full access to its AI

  • According to a new Pew Research survey, most teens use AI chatbots, with some using them more than their parents actually know.
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    Feb 24
    3m read

    More teens are using AI chatbots than their parents think: Poll 

  • A new app aims to alert users to the presence of smart glasses, a technology that can record people without their knowledge.
    JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images
    Feb 24
    3m read

    This app will alert you if it thinks someone nearby is wearing smart glasses

  • Experts are calling for updates to HIPAA after AI was used to identify patients within anonymized health data.
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    Feb 23
    4m read

    HIPAA promised to keep your medical data secret. AI threatens to reveal it

  • Is social media addicting? Does it lead to poor adolescent mental health? Meta, TikTok, Snap, Youtube face a series of lawsuits.
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    Feb 20
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    On trial: Is social media to blame for the youth mental health crisis? We checked the science

  • JeffTube lets you use a clone of YouTube to view videos released by the DOJ that relate to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein.
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    Feb 20
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    ‘Jmail’ and ‘JeffTube’ present Epstein materials in a new light

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