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The Trump administration asked LinkedIn for info on its media critics. An appeals court rebuked it.
The 4th Circuit rebuked the Trump administration for asking LinkedIn to hand over info on its critics in t…
#governmentsecrecy #lawgovernment #freepress
reason.com/2026/11/11/4th-ci…
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The ad tells you about the app. The privacy policy tells you about you.
Reject Convenience reads the privacy policies of ZocDoc, Ground News and Monarch, so you know what you're agreeing to before you sign up.
#dataprivacy #privacypolicy #consumerrights
youtube.com/watch?v=cM_l-T1N…
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The government wanted to read journalists' private LinkedIn messages. A court said no.
The Trump administration lost its fight to get into reporters' LinkedIn DMs. The court called confidential sources the "lifeb…
#policy #militaryleaks #firstamendment
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…
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You wore it to sleep. Your brainwaves reportedly ended up training AI.
Muse maker Interaxon reportedly trained AI on users' de-identified brain data without telling them. It only changed its privacy policy after journalists started asking que…
#privacy
malwarebytes.com/blog/ai/202…
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Apple is pulling VPN apps in Russia again. The tool that hides you is being taken away.
VPN developers say their apps are again being removed from Apple's App Store in Russia. VPNs let people control their own online activity.…
#appstores #russia #vpns
techdirt.com/2026/11/10/why-…
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"This ruling is a big deal and will quickly become one of the leading opinions in the area — we will be quoting from it for a long time," @rcfp says. "The court recognized that confidential sources are the 'lifeblood' of investigative reporting and that dragnet demands from technology companies to reveal those sources violate the law."
A federal appeals court blocked the Trump administration from accessing a group of journalists’ LinkedIn records, calling the request “overbroad” in a Tuesday decision.
washingtonsun.com/legal/appe…
Google's AI checked the math behind your Signal messages. The encryption holds up.
DeepMind researchers used a new AI tool to formally verify that the Signal Protocol works as intended. It's evidence that strong encryption…
#math #signal #proofpositive
wired.com/story/a-new-ai-too…
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Seattle police should need a warrant to search surveillance footage. Now an audit agrees.
The NYU Policing Project's long-awaited privacy and civil-liberties audit recommends limits on Seattle's Real Time Crime Cente…
#policesurveillance #real #privacy
publicola.com/2026/11/09/lon…
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Stop what you're doing right now and listen.
New leaked audio: Flock’s CEO tells a private conference of police chiefs he believes the opposition to his company isn’t real, full of paid protesters/bots. Says company is at “the bottom” but is waiting out criticism
404media.co/in-leaked-audio-…
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Seattle police have a Real Time Crime Center. An audit says its rules have gaps.
A new civil liberties audit urged stronger safeguards at Seattle's Real Time Crime Center after identifying gaps in several rules. If…
#privacy #security #mynorthwestnews
mynorthwest.com/local/seattl…
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You hid your location. The airplanes overhead can still give it away.
Your photos and videos reveal more than you meant to share. Even if you try to hide where you were, the sound of airplanes in a c…
#airplanetracking #dopplereffect #digitalaudiohacks
hackaday.com/2026/11/09/dete…
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Privacy advocates warned war on terror tools would come home. ICE is using them on protesters.
ICE has been surveilling protesters with sophisticated tracking technology, and it has largely flown under the radar. I…
#waronterror #surveillancestate #ice
newrepublic.com/article/2175…
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AI that scores your credit and prices your insurance got flagged. Checks don't start until 2027.
The EU Commission's rights method flags both, rating likelihood and severity per right on a 4-level scale wi…
#europeanunion #artificialintelligence #pulse
ppc.land/commission-rights-m…
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She'd been evicted after a pay cut. Then she helped block a $5 billion data center.
Thousands across the U.S. have joined the fight against data centers. One Maryland woman went from eviction to leading the community effort th…
#science #data #politics
npr.org/2026/11/07/nx-s1-600…
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The data you gave one agency didn't stay there. It went to DOGE, then ICE, then your voter rolls.
Techdirt says the federal government unlawfully pooled your private info in three waves: DOGE, agency data sharing with ICE, then…
#voterrolls #dhs #doge
techdirt.com/2026/11/06/resi…
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The mayor put the cops under surveillance. The entire police force quit.
A whole police department walked off the job after their mayor started watching them and tracking their movements. Being tracked feels different…
#privacy #policebrutality #police
futurism.com/future-society/…
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You're not just being watched. You're being charged for it.
Algorithms and surveillance tech are being used to push your prices up. The data collected about you isn't only used for ads. It can also shape what you end up…
#investing #finance #economics
thepreamble.com/p/the-hidden…
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You're watching your TV. LG is allegedly watching you back.
Portugal's consumer group Citizen Voice has asked a court to investigate LG over alleged smart TV spying. It's the latest in LG's privacy troubles, and a remi…
#cities #technology #smartcities
techradar.com/televisions/lg…
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