… Nevertheless, his letter contains several other claims that appear fundamentally at odds with the mechanics of FISA oversight. “Because of how heavily it is overseen by all three branches of government,” Himes says, “any effort to misuse the program would almost certainly become known to the Foreig… …
… Fowler is not naming the apparent victim or their associates and says he reported the incident to local law enforcement. “Even though this is a very public person, even public people deserve privacy,” Fowler says. …
… Erotic interactions with ChatGPT will further heighten the stakes for user privacy. …
… Sean Vitka, executive director of Demand Progress, a privacy group that has lobbied Congress to rein in the data trade, tells WIRED that the House passed significant legislation two years ago that would have barred the government from subsidizing the industry, only for a handful of surveillance-min…
… Surveillance Firms Are Exploiting Year-Old Telecom Vulnerabilities for Spying Security researchers have long warned that the telecom protocols known as Signaling System 7, or SS7, which govern how phone networks connect to one another and route calls and texts, are vulnerable to abuse that would al… …
… Also this week, WIRED published an excerpt from author Andrew Guthrie Ferguson’s new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You, about the ways in which fitness trackers and biometric surveillance are further degrading your right to privacy. …
… Face recognition is a good example of surveillance that generates broad and diffuse privacy harms. …
… A Meta spokesperson did not respond to the report's claims regarding opt-out forms, saying instead, “As we say explicitly in our Privacy Policy, we don't sell any of your information to anyone and we never will.” Google, Whitepages, National Public Data, Bumble, X, DataTrust, TikTok, did not respon… …
… Each week, we round up the security and privacy news we didn’t cover in depth ourselves. …
… WIRED is using a pseudonym in this article out of respect for her privacy. Dolan's biometric surveillance is so extensive that a New York City police officer’s photo was added to a face-recognition database, and a child triggered an alert at one of Dolan’s properties. …