Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress
Other lawmakers are alarmed by the FBI’s disclosure of having purchased location information derived from people’s cell phones. During a hearing in March, the FBI…
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Nude Videos of Kids From Hacked Baby Monitors Were Sold on Telegram
IPVM disputes this allegation and says it promptly contacted the FBI upon discovering the crimes. A murdered Russian submarine captain may have been tracked by…
FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag…
How a Cloud Flaw Gave Chinese Spies a Key to Microsoft’s Kingdom
But exactly how such a sensitive key, allowing such broad access, could be stolen in the first place remains unknown. WIRED contacted Microsoft, but the…
Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the volume of attacks fell in…
Silk Road’s Second-in-Command, Variety Jones, Gets 20 Years in Prison
Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a law enforcement operation coordinated by…
How to Use Discord’s Family Center With Your Teens
Discord started in 2015 as a communication platform for gamers. It’s now a sprawling hub of active servers where users can do everything from online…
The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Most evidence for RTCC effectiveness, however, is anecdotal, and there is a real lack of studies into how effective they really are. In Detroit, a…
Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands
When Yevgeny Prighozin, the head of the notorious mercenary army known as the Wagner Group, staged an aborted coup against the Russian government, his brief…
How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)
Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and…
Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the app in Apple’s App Store.…
US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
The National Defense Authorization Act now includes language that would forbid government entities from buying Americans’ search histories, location data, and more. Source link