By the Intel 471 Global Research Team: In the last decade, Iran has undergone a quiet revolution. Since the“Green Movement” uprising in 2009, more Iranians have dared to openly oppose their regime. The reasons include accusations of elections tampering, global sanctions, increased inflation, heavy investment of state funds in the [Read More…]
From the good folks at EPIC.org: EPIC has joined a group of organizations across the political spectrum—EFF, Americans for Prosperity, the Brennan Center, FreedomWorks, and TechFreedom—to urge a federal appeals court to revive a challenge to an NSA surveillance program. A lower court judge in the case, Wikimedia v. NSA, found that Wikimedia could [Read More…]
Jamie Davies reports: Privacy authorities in the UK and Australia have announced a joint investigation into Clearview AI, a US firm which provides facial recognition technologies. In what might be seen as an ironic sequence of events, as the US acts the international cheerleader to combat the Chinese threat to [Read More…]
Joseph Cox reports: Hackers break into websites, steal information, and then publish that data all the time, with other hackers or scammers then using it for their own ends. But breached data now has another customer: law enforcement. […] The sale highlights a somewhat novel use of breached data, and [Read More…]