Joseph Cox reports: The Pentagon is carrying out warrantless surveillance of Americans, according to a new letter written by Senator Ron Wyden and obtained by Motherboard. Senator Wyden’s office asked the Department of Defense (DoD), which includes various military and intelligence agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) and [Read More…]
Victoria Traxler reports that the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department announced it has stopped using secure communication app Signal — not because it’s insecure, but because it’s so secure that some members of the public became concerned that itus use allows the agency to operate with too much [Read More…]
Jenny List writes: It’s not often that events in our sphere of technology hackers have ramifications for an entire country or even a continent, but there’s a piece of news from the Netherlands (Dutch language, machine translation) that has the potential to do just that. Enschede is an unremarkable but pleasant city in [Read More…]
Devlin Barrett reports: The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained Washington Post journalists’ phone records and tried to obtain their email records over reporting they did in the early months of the Trump administration on Russia’s role in the 2016 election, according to government letters and officials. In three separate letters [Read More…]