Big Food vs. the People(lighthousereports.com)

253 points by jruohonen 2 months ago | 158 comments

Meta created 'playbook' to fend off pressure to crack down on scammers(reuters.com)

172 points by lossolo 9 months ago | 83 comments

How First Wap tracks phones around the world(lighthousereports.com)

67 points by mattboulos 1 year ago | 11 comments

Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague(theins.press)

306 points by dralley 1 year ago | 144 comments

Japan's largest paper, Yomiuri Shimbun, sues Perplexity for copyright violations(niemanlab.org)

152 points by aspenmayer 1 year ago | 68 comments

Inside Epstein’s network: what 1.4M emails reveal(economist.com)

82 points by doener 8 months ago | 70 comments

How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?(doubleagent.net)

408 points by haxrob 2 years ago | 161 comments

A technical investigation into class action lawsuit claims that Facebook used the Onavo Protect app to intercept encrypted traffic from competitors' mobile apps.

Inside the "3 billion people" national public data breach(troyhunt.com)

540 points by bubblehack3r 2 years ago | 358 comments

Troy Hunt's blog post analyzing the National Public Data breach, which was claimed to expose records on 3 billion people.

Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance(eff.org)

408 points by pseudolus 8 months ago | 122 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Matthew Guariglia arguing tech companies should not be pressured by government into conducting surveillance.

What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance(pluralistic.net)

671 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 351 comments

A Pluralistic blog post by Cory Doctorow arguing that online age verification mandates amount to mass surveillance that harms the kids they claim to protect.

Belgium legalises ethical hacking(law.kuleuven.be)

394 points by jruohonen 3 years ago | 57 comments

A KU Leuven CiTiP blog post discussing Belgium's new legal framework legalising ethical hacking and whether it threatens or helps cybersecurity.

Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf](signal.org)

630 points by g0xA52A2A 4 months ago | 270 comments

Signal's PDF statement opposing a UK government demand that all content on devices be scanned for nudity using age verification and content scanning.