Sens Ask Gabbard to Tell Americans That VPN Use Subjects Them to Surveillance(techdirt.com)

24 points by c420 6 months ago | 3 comments

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party(bitdefender.com)

92 points by speckx 3 days ago | 39 comments

Bitdefender blog post by Graham Cluley reporting that a hacker leaked 281 GB of internal emails and files from Germany's far-right AfD party via a torrent and AI-summary site.

ICE, CBP Knew Facial Recognition App Couldn't Do What DHS Says It Could(techdirt.com)

177 points by cdrnsf 8 months ago | 48 comments

Just 23% of Americans Know the US Has Failed to Pass an Internet-Era Privacy Law(techdirt.com)

146 points by rntn 3 years ago | 61 comments

California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time(techdirt.com)

14 points by hn_acker 2 months ago | 0 comments

Techdirt has been deleted from Bing and DuckDuckGo [fixed](techdirt.com)

189 points by lehi 3 years ago | 142 comments

AI will make formal verification go mainstream(martin.kleppmann.com)

782 points by evankhoury 10 months ago | 394 comments

Martin Kleppmann blog post predicting that AI will bring formal verification with proof assistants like Rocq, Isabelle and Lean into mainstream software engineering.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

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.

The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos(eff.org)

1159 points by glitcher 3 years ago | 423 comments

EFF Deeplinks post from April 2023 warning that the reintroduced EARN IT bill would push online services to scan users' messages and photos, threatening encryption.

OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine(vmfunc.re)

548 points by rzk 8 months ago | 171 comments

Blog post investigating how OpenAI, the US government, and identity verification firm Persona allegedly built a surveillance system that files reports to federal authorities.

Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services(arstechnica.com)

111 points by colinprince 19 days ago | 37 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that hackers compromised three domain registries and obtained unauthorized TLS certificates for Google and other large services.