This New Tool Aims to Keep Terrorism Content Off the Internet
The new tool can be integrated straight into the backend of whatever platform it is working with. It then connects to Tech Against Terrorism’s own…
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Here’s How Violent Extremists Are Exploiting Generative AI Tools
“We’re going to partner with Microsoft to figure out if there are ways using our archive of material to create a sort of gen AI…
Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor
Omegle, the video and text chat site that paired strangers together to talk, ultimately shut down as part of a legal mediation with a female…
How to Get Facebook Without Ads—if It’s Available for You
Meta just launched its first ad-free option for Facebook and Instagram. The update is in response to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, passed…
Sandworm Hackers Caused Another Blackout in Ukraine—During a Missile Strike
The notorious unit of Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency known as Sandworm remains the only team of hackers to have ever triggered blackouts with their…
Police Use of Face Recognition Is Sweeping the UK
A Beyoncé gig, the coronation of King Charles, and the British Formula One Grand Prix all have one thing in common: Thousands of people at…
This Is the Ops Manual for the Most Tech-Savvy Animal Liberation Group in the US
In recent years, the animal liberation group Direct Action Everywhere has carried out some of the most brazen and tech-savvy operations and investigations to ever…
Government Surveillance Reform Act of 2023 Seeks to End Warrantless Police and FBI Spying
In 1763, the radical journalist and colonial sympathizer John Wilkes published issue no. 45 of North Briton, a periodical of anonymous essays known for its…
Internet Blackouts in Gaza Are a New Weapon in the Israel-Hamas War
“No company can repair or do anything right now,” Mekdad says. Many firms, he says, are waiting until the war is over to see the…
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Detection Believed to Break EU Privacy Law
All versions of YouTube’s ad blocker detection apparently use a JavaScript program that runs in the client browser, although YouTube says that it could use…
What a Bloody San Francisco Street Brawl Tells Us About the Age of Citizen Surveillance
But when Hathaway took on Doty’s case, she quickly learned some other things about Carmignani. A decade ago, he had been arrested for domestic violence…
Intensified Israeli Surveillance Has Put the West Bank on Lockdown
On Sunday, October 29, Ahmed Azza was given permission to leave his neighborhood for the first time in three days. He passed the surveillance camera…