This Adtech Company is Powering Surveillance of U.S. Military Personnel

This article was produced with support from WIRED. Last year, a joint investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that tracked United States military and intelligence personnel overseas. However, at the time, the origin of that data remained unknown. Now, a letter sent to US senator Ron Wyden’s office…

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Judge Orders CDC and FDA to Restore Pages Removed by Trump Admin Before Midnight

On Tuesday, a judge ordered the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food and Drug Administration to restore several of the webpages they removed following President Trump’s executive order attacking diversity, equity and inclusion. The health agencies have until 11:59 p.m. on February 11 to restore the pages to how…

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Senator Pushes Zuckerberg on “Perverse Abuse” of Nudify Ads After 404 Media Report

Senator and Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee Dick Durbin has sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking about his company’s role in directing traffic to apps that use artificial intelligence to generate nonconsensual nude images. Specifically, Durbin’s letter cites 404 Media’s reporting about Crushmate, a so-called “nudify” app that has repeatedly…

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Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to US Editors From Musk and His Allies

The Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that it hopes will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous in part to avoid harassment and legal threats as Elon Musk and the Heritage Foundation ramp up their attacks on people who edit Wikipedia. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries with authoritarian governments and…

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‘For Immediate Compliance’: FEMA Workers Responding to Wildfires Ordered to Say ‘Alien’ Instead of ‘Immigrant’

While responding to the most damaging wildfires in the history of California, FEMA employees received an order “for immediate compliance” this week that states they must immediately change their vocabulary to comply with the Trump Administration’s preferred terminology on gender and immigration.  For example, FEMA employees are no longer allowed to call undocumented immigrants “migrants”…

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