Inside the Illicit Market for Abortion Pills on Telegram
Hundreds of messages from the data that contained pricing information indicate that the average cost of purchasing a purported pack of abortion pills on Telegram…
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Docs Show FBI Pressures Cops to Keep Phone Surveillance Secrets
Documents obtained by the ACLU show devices of this type—the police use of which is authorized by the Federal Communications Commission—are listed as defense articles…
How the Most Popular Cars in the US Track Drivers
Privacy4Cars results say it is unclear how Honda uses biometric data, which is information about your body. Honda’s Martin says no Acura or Honda models…
Humans Aren’t Mentally Ready for an AI-Saturated ‘Post-Truth World’
Artificial intelligence is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago you wouldn’t often hear AI come up in a…
A Newly Named Group of GRU Hackers is Wreaking Havoc in Ukraine
Finally, the Russia-based ransomware gang Clop went on a hacking spree that hit US government agencies and international companies including Shell and British Airways. Clop…
Clop Hacking Rampage Hits US Agencies and Exposes Data of Millions
United States cybersecurity officials said yesterday that a “small number” of government agencies have suffered data breaches as part of a broad hacking campaign that…
How Shady Chinese Encryption Chips Got Into the Navy, NATO, and NASA
When WIRED reached out to the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, a spokesperson responded that the BIS is restricted by law from commenting…
UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress
Gillibrand is sponsoring an amendment she hopes to attach to this year’s must-pass National Defense Authorization Act to mandate that no money can be spent…
The US Is Openly Stockpiling Dirt on All Its Citizens
The United States government has been secretly amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, a group of senior advisors…
A Massive Vaccine Database Leak Exposes IDs of Millions of Indians | WIRED
On the evening of June 11, a journalist from the Kerala-based news portal The Fourth reported that a Telegram bot in a channel called “hak4learn” was…
An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
Molly Greene, The Appeal’s strategy and legal director, calls the censorship alarming. “It’s incredibly concerning to hear readers say they can no longer access our…
Talitrix Prison-Monitoring System Tracks Inmates Down to Their Heart Rate
The conditions inside the Fulton County Jail system are dire. Inmates at one of the jails in Atlanta, Georgia, are sleeping on the floor in…