📰 Surveillance & Privacy News

Germany's ZKA Reads Encrypted Chats via Account Cloning

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Weekly Surveillance Roundup, Sept 28 to Oct 4, 2026: Flock Ruling

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, October 3, 2026: Flock Unconstitutional

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, October 2, 2026: VIDIZMO Targets Flock

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, October 1 2026: USPS Trucks Scan Roads

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 30 2026: Face ID Hits Flock

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EFF to SFPD: Drones Need Real Safeguards Before General Patrol

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 29 2026: Copilot Routed Uploads

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 28 2026: OpenAI Pauses Training

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Springfield Woman Arrested for Speaking About Flock Cameras

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Weekly Surveillance Roundup, Sept 21 to 27, 2026: ShinyHunters FBI

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Anthropic's Misuse Report: AI Used for Surveillance and Doxxing

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 27, 2026: Soldier Sentenced

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 23, 2026: ShinyHunters Hits FBI

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EFF, ACLU: D.C. Circuit Must Vacate the FAA Drone Restriction

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 22, 2026: The Flock Camera Hack

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 21, 2026: Flock City PD

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Hackers Stole Flock Camera Software, Revealing How It Tracks

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 16, 2026: Decoy Cuts Felonies

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Flock ALPR Audit Logs Show Cops Typing 'LMAO' and 'asdfg'

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 15, 2026: High Crime of LMAO

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 14, 2026: The Flock 911 Calls

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EFF: Cops Hide ALPR, Stingray, and Face-Recognition Use From Courts

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Flock Workers Called 911 on a Reporter and YouTubers Filming Cameras

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Ring's New Default Encryption Is Not End-to-End. Here Is the Gap

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 11, 2026: Apple Watch Consent

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 10, 2026: DHS Names the PITT

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 9, 2026: DHS Financial Data

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FBI Probes Dark Web Sale of 153 Million License Scans

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 8, 2026: AI Wrote Flock Report

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LG webOS TVs Log Audio in Standby, Map Home Networks

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 7, 2026: Flock Trained Cops

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Texas Halted Flock Funding. Florida Ordered Cameras Off Highways.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 3, 2026: Two States vs Flock

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EFF: Meta's $17B Settlement Is a Bad Deal for Teens

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 2, 2026: Flock Deputy Stalking

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Digital Camouflage Shirt Beats Berlin's AI Police Cameras

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, September 1, 2026: Cyber Hits Grid

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 31, 2026: Flock Wars Reshape ALPR

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 27, 2026: Fake Flock Camera Sting

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Flock Cameras: San Diego Activist Wears Darth Vader at Council

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 26, 2026: Court Killed FinCEN Rule

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US Surveillance Scoreboard: ALPR Decisions by Jurisdiction

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 25, 2026: AirTag Caught a Sergeant

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Tech Companies Are Quietly Fighting ICE Subpoenas. EFF Says Go Public.

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Wetherspoons Asks Smart Glasses Wearers to Switch Cameras Off

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AI-Generated Fake ID Documents Are Defeating Identity Checks

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Apple Patches Screen Sharing Flaw That Skips the Password Check

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Flock Writes Its Own ALPR Rulebook After Stalking Reports

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 13, 2026: ICO Reprimands ACRO

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Attackers Spent Seven Months Inside the UK Criminal Records Office

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 12, 2026: BTP Cameras Match Faces

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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions More to Feed Palantir

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Norman, OK Council Rejected Flock Cameras, Twice

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 11, 2026: ICE Buys LexisNexis

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DEF CON Hackers Now Defend 150,000 US Water Utilities

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Knightscope Robots Are Losing Contracts to Human Guards

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 10, 2026: Disney's Fake Opt-Out

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 9, 2026: Cancer Screening Breach

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Beacon CRM Breach Exposes UK Charity Donor Records

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 6, 2026: Flock's Honesty Problem

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UKGI Data Leak Exposed 51 Officials' Emails for 40 Hours

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 5, 2026: Data and Identity

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INTERPOL: AI Cybercrime in Africa Beats Biometric KYC

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SEC Bought Airline Data to Track Global Flights Without a Warrant

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 4, 2026: Drones Watch Backyards

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Drone First Responder Programs Now Hit 1,000 Agencies

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EFF + 18 Groups Urge Hochul to Veto NY's Stealth Crawler Bill

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Anthropic and OpenAI Disclosed the Same AI-Agent Escape

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, August 3, 2026: Two Labs, Same Mistake

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EFF Guide: Yes, You Can Record ICE and CBP

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Axon Is Another License Plate Surveillance Company

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 29, 2026: Grok on Pentagon Networks

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 28, 2026: CBP Can Scroll Your Phone

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Fourth Circuit: Manual Border Phone Searches Need No Warrant

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 25, 2026: Iran's FindFace Network

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Leaked ICE Document Maps 115 Surveillance Tools

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 24, 2026: ICE Buys Your Address

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DHS Plans 2,300 Border Surveillance Towers by 2034

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NOPD Published a Weaponized Drone Policy. Then It Reversed.

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Why Verona Put Bags Over Its Flock Cameras

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California Pulls Browsers From Its Age-Gating Expansion

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 22, 2026: DHS Tripling Border Towers

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 20, 2026: ICE CLEAR Voter Fraud Deal

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 18, 2026: Anthropic Hidden Tracker

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Flock's FreeForm AI Searches for People, Not Just Cars

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ICE Plans $125M Thomson Reuters CLEAR Deal for Voter Fraud Hunt

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 17, 2026: LAPD Flock Audit

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LAPD Flock Audit: 161 Innocent Stops, Contract Expired

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 14, 2026: UK Bundles Three Mandates

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Anthropic Hid a Steganographic Tracker in Claude Code

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 13, 2026: Convicts Run a C2 Shop

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Patreon Blocks AI Training Crawlers With Cloudflare

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 10, 2026

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Convicted Fraudsters Run a Phone-Hacking Startup Pitching the US

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 9, 2026

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GitHub Copilot Safety Refusals Fail 100% in Coding Workflows

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Meta Patents Always-On Audio Wearable That Reads Mood

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 8, 2026

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EU Mandates Driver-Monitoring Cameras in Every New Car

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Body-Cam Footage: Florida Deputy Used ALPR Tools to Stalk a Woman

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Daily Surveillance Briefing, July 7, 2026

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EU Civil-Liberties Groups Demand Action on Pegasus Hit on PEGA MEP

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: July 6, 2026: EU States Sell Spyware

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Weekly Surveillance Roundup

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NetNut Botnet Turned 2 Million Smart TVs Into Proxy Exit Nodes

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Citizen Lab Confirms Pegasus Hit Greek MEP on PEGA Committee

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Doe v. Cisco: Supreme Court Narrows Liability Routes

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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India Orders WhatsApp to Halt Username Feature

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Linux 6.9 Silently Broke LUKS Suspend for Two Years

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Google ZKP Library Drops Prover Memory Under 200MB

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Supreme Court: Geofence Warrants Are Fourth Amendment Searches

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 29, 2026: Flock Scans ICE Hotlist

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EFF to Amazon: Stop Selling BADBOX Malware on Prime Day

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Flock ALPRs Turn Local Police Cameras Into ICE Screening Tools

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 28, 2026: FCC Mandates Phone KYC

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FCC Wants Your ID to Get a Phone Number

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No, Anthropic Isn't Making Every Claude User Scan Their ID

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California 3D Printer Surveillance Bill Advances in the State Senate

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Nefos Left a Million Cannabis Club Passports Exposed Online

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Four Surveillance Critics Made the Same Argument This Week

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The US Government Decides Who Gets Frontier AI

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 26, 2026: FIRE on Age Verification

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Mullvad's 4000-Word Primer on Global Mass Surveillance

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Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Massive Claude Extraction Campaign

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Valsorda Was Right: The Vulnpocalypse Is Real

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Anthropic's Claude Tag Joins Slack. It Sees Every Channel.

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Texas Convicted Anti-ICE Protesters as Terrorists.

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Cory Doctorow: Age Verification Is Mass Surveillance, ID by ID

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Digital Euro Thread Crossed 200p. The Programmable Money Debate Is On.

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Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore

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MSG Compiled a Dossier on Facial Recognition Critics

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Meta Pauses Its Employee Tracking Program After Internal Data Leak

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OpenAI DayBreak Is the Asymmetric Frontier.

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The War on Terror Primed America for Autocracy. The Economist Says So.

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Will It Mythos? SwellJoe Built a Test for the AI Security Hype

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 23, 2026: Danish Raid Hits 411p

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NSA Lost Access to Mythos Amid Anthropic Dispute

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Apertus Crosses 300p. Swiss Sovereign AI Is the Counter-Narrative.

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Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalk Women. Warrants Are the Fix.

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Danish Police Raided Self-Described Privacy Activist.

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'Never Give Them Your Face' essay hit 301 Hacker News points

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Anthropic's Claude ID Plan Crossed 500 Points.

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Anthropic Adds Age and Identity Checks From July 8

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Brazil Cell Phone Alert Hack Exposes Global Wireless Emergency

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Loupe Shows What iOS Apps See. The App Privacy Report Doesn't.

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Meta Wants NSO Held in Contempt Over Fresh WhatsApp Pegasus Attacks

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Weekly Surveillance Update June 21

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White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

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Your ATProto Identity Is Owned by Your PDS Operator

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AMD Will Reinstate Memory Encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs

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Companies Rein In AI Use as Compute Costs Surge

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 20, 2026: Norway Bans AI in Schools

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EFF: Court Records Should Be Free, Not Paywalled by PACER

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Google Workspace Tells Firefox Users to Switch to Chrome

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From Space, GPS Jamming Maps Who Is Tracking Whom

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John Jumper Leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

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Norway Imposes Near Ban on AI in Elementary Schools

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From PGP to Mythos: Why Export Controls Don't Work

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Real ID for Internet Traffic: A 2023 Warning Resurfaces

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Surveillance Pricing: NY Signs Ban, WaPo Sued

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UK May Age-Gate VPNs to Enforce Under-16 Social Media Ban

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Australia Lost Its First Online Safety Showdown With X Corp

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Captured Logs Reveal Hackers Using Claude and Codex to Breach

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Cruz and Wyden JAWBONE Act Creates Federal Cause of Action

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 19, 2026: Norway Fines Elkjop

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AI Companies Killed Consent.

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European Commission Moves Bluesky Accounts to W Social

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Anthropic Fable 5 Day 6: Grudge Surfaces, JPMorgan Cuts HK

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Australia's ACMA Mandates SMS Sender ID Registration by July 1

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 18, 2026: Fable 5's Sixth Day

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10,000 GitHub Repositories Are Distributing Trojan Malware

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Norway Fines Elkjop €1.8M for Forced-Consent Customer Club

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US Holds Off Blacklisting DeepSeek, Adds 100+ Other Chinese Firms

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AMD Silently Strips Memory Encryption from Consumer Ryzen CPUs

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Anthropic Fable 5 Days 5-6: Three Reports Hit a Wall

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Apple's iOS 19 Update Makes Hide My Email Useless

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 17, 2026: OpenAI's $38.5B Leak

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France to Ditch Palantir for ChapsVision in Sovereignty Reset

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From GM to Your Insurance: The OEM-to-Broker Pipeline

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GPT-NL: Dutch Trio Builds a Sovereign Open Language Model

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GrapheneOS Hits Android 17 the Day Google Releases It

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Microsoft Teams Will Tell Your Boss When You Were in the Office

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OpenAI Lost $38.5B in 2025. Your Data Pays the Gap.

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Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' Leak: GitHub Repo Confirms the Power Network

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Stop Killing Games Lost the EU Vote. Publishers Kept the Power.

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Subscribing to Your Own Car: When Heated Seats Cost Extra

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Toll Transponders Track You Beyond Toll Plazas

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UK to Verify Your Face or ID at Every Social Media Sign-Up

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Volkswagen Started Blocking GrapheneOS Users From Their Cars

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TechCrunch: The Anthropic Ban Was Never About a Jailbreak

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A Banned Book Library Lives Inside a Wi-Fi Light Bulb

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 16, 2026: A Recruiter's Backdoor

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The DOJ Just Called Grok 'Vital' National Security Infrastructure

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U.S. Federal Data Center Rules Expire September 30 With No Replacement

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FIFA's ID Check Let a Hacker Into the World Cup Live Feed

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A Fake LinkedIn Recruiter Almost Got Me to Run a Backdoor

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SpaceX Buys Cursor Maker Anysphere for $60 Billion

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UK's Under-16 Ban Copies Australia's 70% Failure

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Anthropic Fable 5 Day 4: The Political Fallout

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Stratechery: Anthropic's Safety Argument Is Why It Lost the White

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Anthropic Flies to Washington as Carney Warns on AI Concentration

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Apple's Private Cloud Compute Is Severely Limited for Apps

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Israeli Firm BlackCore Suspected of AI Election Meddling in NYC

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The Commerce Department Just Cut Census Math and Anthropic Fable 5

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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FISA 702 Has Lapsed. First Time Since 2008

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Hany Farid Tells NYT: Deepfake Detection Has Lost the Race

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Half of Parents Track Their Young Adult Kids' Location

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UK's 'Australia Plus' Ban

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UK and US Police Are Misusing AI. Both Got Arrested.

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US Connected-Car Rule Hits Ford. Privacy Is the Cover.

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VFS Global: The Private Contractor Behind 71 Governments' Visa Data

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Lighthouse Reports: VFS Global Built a Visa Biometric Empire

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AI Deepfake Nudes Are Now a School Bullying Tool

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Amazon CEO Jassy Pressed the White House to Suspend Anthropic

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Canada's Privacy Commissioner Found Grok Broke the Law

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The Census Bureau Just Banned the Math That Kept Your Data Anonymous

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Daily Briefing, June 14: Census Banned the Privacy Math

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Essex County Sergeant Suspended for Taking a Press Camera Bag Home

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EU Privacy Regulators Are Coming for Smart Glasses

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Maui Cops Just Got Their 'AI Eyes in the Sky'

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NHS Patients Can't Opt Out of Palantir. Their Hospitals Can.

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UK Police Officer Criminal Investigation for AI-Fabricated Evidence

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Weekly Surveillance Update June 14

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WhatsApp Caught Fresh NSO Attacks. Meta Wants Court Contempt.

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Anthropic Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Suspended by US Government

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California Sues 23andMe Over 2023 DNA Data Breach

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Your Car's Black Box: What an EDR Records, Who Sees It

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CPPA's Connected-Car Sweep Hits Honda and Ford

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Daily Briefing, June 13: US Government Pulls Fable 5

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EFF: Federal AI Surveillance Is a Civil Liberties Disaster

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FISA 702 Lapsed 72 Hours Ago. The Phone Lines Are Still Up

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H.R. 6028 Severs Copyright Office From Library of Congress

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ACLU Sues Jacksonville Beach Over 93% Facial Recognition Wrongful

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LabCorp Agrees to $35M AMCA Breach Settlement, 7 Years Later

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19 Months Past Deadline: Where the NHTSA Impaired Driving Rule Stands

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Palantir Just Lost a Swiss Court Fight Against a Magazine

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Spyware Adds 'Nuclear Weapons' Text to Trick AI Scanners

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Texas Sues Allstate and Arity for Tracking 45 Million Americans

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Toyota Driving Data Lawsuit Just Took a Major Turn

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The UK Dropped Its Apple Encryption Order, Then Issued Another

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Meta Strips Facial Recognition From Smart Glasses App

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Surveillance Pricing 2026: 24 States Move to Ban Algorithms

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Three States Move to Ban Surveillance Pricing.

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Three States Tighten Privacy Laws on July 1, 2026

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The UK Secretly Ordered Apple to Break iCloud Encryption

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 11, 2026

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FISA 702 Expires Friday. The Surveillance Does Not

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Two Federal Privacy Bills Are Competing. One Kills 20 State Laws.

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ServiceNow API Flaw Exposed Federal Customer Data

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 9, 2026

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 8, 2026

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2026 Mid-Year Surveillance State

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 6, 2026

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Maryland\\u2019s Grocery Pricing Ban Takes Effect October 1

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Meta's AI Chatbot Let Anyone Take Over Any Instagram Account.

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Amnesty: Russia Turned Its Schools Into Surveillance Networks.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 5, 2026

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EFF Confirms: Meta Shipped Facial Recognition Code to Millions

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Daily Surveillance Briefing June 4

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600,000 Gaza Families Had Their Data Stolen.

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DeFlock: How One Guy Mapped 90,000 Cameras and Sparked a Revolt

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: June 2, 2026

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FROST Attack: Any Website Can Profile You by Timing Your SSD

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Philly Cops Are Tracking People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online

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Vermont Just Banned Geofencing Near Clinics.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing May 31, 2026: WiFi Can Now Identify You

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Google Broke Its 10-Year Privacy Promise. Now ICE Has His Bank Data.

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ICE Has Scanned Faces in the Field 100,000 Times

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One Federal Bill Could Kill 21 State Privacy Laws

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ShinyHunters 2026 Breach Tracker (January–May 2026)

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 30, 2026

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The GUARD Act: Congress Wants Your ID to Talk to a Chatbot

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Why Israel Is So Entangled With Surveillance Tech

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Your Phone Apps Are Getting Soldiers Killed

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Trump at 16 Months: What Actually Changed in the Surveillance State

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One Employee Click, 6 Million Passports

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 28, 2026

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Ford Wants to Scan Your Face Before You Drive

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The FTC Is Finally Going After Companies That Track Your Every Move

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Verizon's 2026 Breach Report: Vendors and Shadow AI Are the Weak Links

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Apple, Google, Meta Push Back on Canada Encryption Bill

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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ShinyHunters Isn't Hacking Companies.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing May 26, 2026: $9 Billion for Spy AI

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The EU Wants to Force Google to Share Your Searches

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Trump Mobile Leaked Customers' Home Addresses and Phone Numbers.

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White House Gave Spy Agencies $9 Billion and a Secret Anthropic Deal

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CISA Left Its Own Passwords on GitHub for Six Months

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Daily Surveillance Briefing

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'No Relationship' With Paragon Doesn't Mean 'No Access' to ICE's

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Your Fingerprints Were Stolen From a NYC Hospital. Permanently.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 24, 2026

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Europol Watched for Three Years Before Pulling the Plug on First VPN

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A Drone Just Learned to Recognize You by How You Walk

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Meta Blinked. A Thousand School Districts Are Watching.

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Your ChatGPT Queries Were Sent to Meta and Google. Every Single One.

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California Bill Would Force Every App to Default to Maximum Privacy

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A Bank Employee Fed Customer SSNs Into an AI Chatbot

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 23, 2026

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European Countries Are Selling Spyware to Dictators

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A Hotel Check-In System Left a Million Passports Open Online

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Texas Sues Meta Over WhatsApp's End-to-End Encryption Claims

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Your Kid's Medical Records Are Being Leaked 1,000 Lines at a Time

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 22, 2026

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Two Bills, Zero Warrants: What Congress Votes on Before FISA 702

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GitHub Hacked Through a VS Code Extension Live for 11 Minutes

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Syracuse Banned Facial Recognition in Stores, Not Waiting for Congress

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 21, 2026

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The Quiet Fight Over Who Decides Which AI Is Too Dangerous

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New York's Biometric Privacy Law Could Dwarf Illinois BIPA

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Companies Use Your Data to Charge You More. Five States Said No.

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The AG Who Won $1.4 Billion From Meta Targets Its Glasses

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 20, 2026

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Disney Sued for Scanning Millions of Faces Without Real Consent

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Every Time There's a Shooting, Privacy Bills Die. Illinois Proves It.

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The US Government's Spyware Problem Just Got Harder to Track.

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Austin's Surveillance Oversight Law Is One Month Old, Officials

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 19, 2026

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The DOJ Wants to Identify Everyone Who Downloaded a Car App

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A Texas Prosecutor Subpoenaed New York Trans Youth Medical Records

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30+ Cities Have Canceled Flock Safety Contracts. The List Keeps

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Cook County Jail BriefCam AI Surveillance Deferred

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 18, 2026

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55,318 Border Phone Searches, Zero Warrants.

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ShinyHunters' 2026 Playbook

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Trellix Breach: What It Means for Supply Chain Security

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Canada's Bill C-22 Would Force Encryption Backdoors.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 17, 2026

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The GUARD Act Wants Your Government ID for Chatbots

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London Police Used Facial Recognition at a Protest for the First Time

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Illinois Voice AI Lawsuits Put BIPA to the Test

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Cook County Jail Wants $1.1 Million AI Surveillance.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 16, 2026

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Every Ransom Payment Funds the Next Attack.

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When Your Grocery Data Sets the Price

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The Take It Down Act May Kill Encryption Instead

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 15, 2026

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Google Built a Spyware Detection Tool With Amnesty International

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Meta Stripped Instagram Encryption, Then Launched "Incognito Chat

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The SECURE Data Act's Privacy Loopholes

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 14, 2026

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The FISA Court Caught Spy Agencies Building Workarounds

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Congress Asks Why Your Grocery Store Spies on You to Set Prices

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Texas Says Netflix Built a 'Surveillance Machinery.' The Numbers

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Colorado Just Outlawed Surveillance Pricing. Here's What It Means.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 13, 2026

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The EU Just Gave Facial Recognition an Extra 16 Months Without Rules

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1,500 Police Departments Now Fly Surveillance Drones.

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Instructure Paid the Ransom. ShinyHunters Pinky-Promised to Delete

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Las Vegas Police Built America\

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The Federal Government Is Scanning Faces Faster Than Anyone Can

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Congress Returns With 32 Days to Fix America\

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GM Hit With Record $12.75 Million Privacy Penalty for Selling

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ShinyHunters Dumped 50GB of Cushman & Wakefield Data

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 10, 2026

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State CISOs Are Losing Faith in Their Own Defenses.

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Congress Asked AI Companies If They'd Help Spy on Americans

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275 Million Students\

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 9, 2026

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DataPurge: A Free, Open-Source Way to Make Brokers Delete You

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DHS Uses a 96-Year-Old Trade Law to Hunt ICE Critics Online

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Privacy Groups Sound the Alarm on the SECURE Data Act

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ShinyHunters Hacked Instructure Twice. Leak Deadline Pushed to May 12.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 8, 2026

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ICE Will Pay Local Police $2 Billion to Enforce Immigration Law

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NSO Group Calls $167M WhatsApp Verdict "Catastrophic." Appeal Drags

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Canada Just Ruled That ChatGPT Was Built on Broken Privacy Law

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DAEMON Tools Was Trojaned for a Month. The Installers Were Signed.

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Home Depot Put License Plate Readers in All 233 California Stores

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States Are Hiding License Plate Surveillance From the Public

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Connecticut Just Passed a Data Broker Kill Switch.

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Two Ransomware Gangs Hit Cushman & Wakefield in One Week

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 6, 2026

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Detroit Schools Are Scanning Parents\

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The Company That Runs Your Bank Just Got Hit by Ransomware

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SpaceBears Ransomware Hits Johnson & Johnson, Targeting Cancer

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Liberty Mutual Policyholder Data Dumped After Everest Ransomware

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Britain Is Building a Surveillance State for Poor People

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Vimeo Breach: ShinyHunters Got In Through a Vendor You Never Heard Of

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Canvas Ransom Deadline May 6: 275M Students, 9,000 Schools Exposed

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 5, 2026

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Beijing Killed a Digital Rights Conference in Africa. The Playbook

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A cPanel Zero-Day Sat Open Two Months, Now Stealing Military Documents

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 4, 2026

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Canvas LMS Breach: ShinyHunters Claims 275 Million Students, 9,000

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Meta Trial Phase 2 Opens: State Demands the Algorithm Be Rebuilt

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The Pentagon Banned Anthropic. The NSA Kept Using Its Model.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 3, 2026

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Eyemart Express Hit by Ransomware: 435 GB of Data Stolen

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Meta Would Rather Quit New Mexico Than Stop Harming Kids

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The Pentagon Handed Seven AI Companies Its Classified Networks

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: May 2, 2026

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PyTorch Lightning Poisoned: npm Worm Steals Cloud Keys, Hides in IDE

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Roblox Makes 100 Million Kids Scan Their Faces to Chat

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Trellix Got Hacked: The Company That Guards Your Network Lost Its Code

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Citizens Bank Breach: Ransomware Gang Claims 3.4 Million Records

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Detroit Schools Scan Parents\\u2019 Faces. The District Denied Using

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FISA 702 Bill Implodes Two Days Before Expiration.

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How the Ad Industry Built a Police Tool to Track Your Phone

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LinkedIn Is Secretly Scanning Your Browser for 6,000+ Extensions

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Meta Is Recording Every Keystroke Its Employees Make

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Texas Tech Sat on 813,000 Stolen Medical Records for 19 Months

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US States Hit Companies With $3.45 Billion in Privacy Fines Last Year

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A Grandmother Lost Five Months to a Facial Recognition Error

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Your iPhone Kept Your Deleted Signal Messages. The FBI Found Them.

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America's Cyber Defense Agency Has No Director and a Chinese Backdoor

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: April 28, 2026

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Section 702 Expires Wednesday. Here Are the Three Ways This Ends.

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Every Ad You See Is a Spy: How the System Works

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LAPD Hired a Private AI Camera to Watch a Neighborhood. Nobody

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LLMs Don't Just Chat. They Spy. How Language Models Enable

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Medtronic Confirms Breach After ShinyHunters Claim 9 Million

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ShinyHunters Hacked ADT, America's Biggest Home Security Company

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ShinyHunters Breached Ameriprise.

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Nine Justices Will Decide If Your Phone Makes You a Suspect

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A Chinese Backdoor Hid in a Federal Firewall for Months

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Chat Control Isn't Dead. The May 4 Trilogue Could Decide

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Your Data Was Hard to Read. LLMs Fixed That for the Government.

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YouTube Wants Your Face Scan. Its Privacy Policy Lets Google Train AI.

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Bitwarden CLI Hacked for 90 Minutes.

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California Wants Your ID to Scroll Instagram.

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: April 26, 2026

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Congress Wants One Federal Privacy Law That Would Kill 20 State Laws

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Four Days Until FISA 702 Expires. Here's Every Possible Outcome.

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France's ID Agency Got Hacked. 19 Million Citizens' Data Is for Sale.

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Google Ignores Your Privacy Opt-Out 86% of the Time, Audit Finds

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The Government Bought a Spy Machine. Your Phone Paid for It.

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Three AI Security Disasters in One Week: The Vibe Coding Reckoning

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Border Patrol Planted a Surveillance Tower in a Beach Town

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Connecticut Just Passed the Most Ambitious AI Bill in America

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: April 25, 2026

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DHS Is Building Facial Recognition Glasses for ICE Agents by 2027

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FISA 702: Johnson's Third Try Strips the Warrant Requirement, Again

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Google Broke Its Promise: Handed a Student's Data to ICE Without

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ICE Agents Are Following Legal Observers to Their Homes

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A Redditor Criticized ICE. Now a Secret Grand Jury Wants Their Name.

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Seiko USA Hacked: Attackers Claim Entire Shopify Customer Database

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Two Republicans File a Bill Requiring Warrants Before Government

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She Questioned Thomson Reuters' ICE Contracts. They Fired Her.

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UK Biobank Breach: 500,000 Health Records Listed for Sale on Alibaba

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Operation Arctic Frost: FBI Secretly Grabbed 8 Senators’ Phone Records

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Carter Page FISA Settlement: FBI Surveillance Abuse

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Ghost Companies Hijacked Phone Networks to Track People’s

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EFF Sues DHS and ICE Over Secret Subpoenas Targeting Online Critics

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France's ID Agency Hacked: 19 Million Citizens' Data for Sale

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Google Tracks You 86% of the Time You Say Stop

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NCSC: 80 Countries Now Have Commercial Spyware

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Rituals Data Breach: Hackers Stole Names, Birthdays, and Addresses

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COPPA Deadline Came and Went. Most of Big Tech Isn't Ready.

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DHS Is Building Facial Recognition Glasses for ICE.

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ShinyHunters Hit Kemper Insurance for 13 Million Records via

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Lovable Exposed Every User's Source Code and Database Passwords

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Maryland Becomes First State to Ban Grocery Surveillance Pricing

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Meta Records Employee Keystrokes to Train AI That Could Replace Them

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6.3 Million Verizon Customer Records Sold for $1,200 After Russell

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Congress Wants One Privacy Law to Replace All 20 State Laws

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Cybersecurity Firm BePrime Got Hacked, Then Threatened

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Daily Surveillance Briefing: April 22, 2026

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Disneyland Scans Your Face to Get In. The Opt-Out Lane Is Hidden.

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DOGE Wins Court Appeal on SSA Data Sharing

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