Vulnerabilities in Cellphone Roaming Let Spies and Criminals Track You Across the Globe
By focusing on the potential dangers of Chinese spy tech, we’ve ignored how roaming itself creates massive vulnerabilities, a new Citizen Lab report says.
Technology
Israel’s War on Gaza
Instagram Censored Image of Gaza Hospital Bombing, Claims It’s Too Sexual
In responses to users who tried to post an alleged picture of the Gaza hospital bombing, Instagram and Facebook said it violated guidelines for sexual content or nudity.
Voices
Why Big Tech, Cops, and Spies Were Made for One Another
The American surveillance state is a public-private partnership.
Israel’s War on Gaza
Israel Warns Palestinians on Facebook — but Bombings Decimated Gaza Internet Access
During a war, when access to the internet could save lives, Palestinians are struggling to reach the outside world and each other.
Israel’s War on Gaza
TikTok, Instagram Target Outlet Covering Israel–Palestine Amid Siege on Gaza
Periods of Israeli–Palestinian violence have regularly resulted in the corporate suppression of Palestinian social media users.
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed by U.S. Political Dark-Money Network
A new, well-funded pressure group is fighting to get Apple to weaken iPhone privacy protections in the name of catching child predators.
Pentagon’s Budget Is So Bloated That It Needs an AI Program to Navigate It
Codenamed GAMECHANGER, an AI program helps the military make sense of its own “byzantine” and “tedious” bureaucracy.
New York Times Doesn’t Want Its Stories Archived
The Times blocked a bot that had given the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine huge troves of websites.
Tech Companies and Governments Are Censoring the Journalist Collective DDoSecrets
X and Reddit prevent users from sharing links to Distributed Denial of Secrets. Russia and Indonesia are also blocking access.
Vice Pulled a Documentary Critical of Saudi Arabia. But Here It Is.
Vice’s hard-nosed coverage on Saudi Arabia changed after investment deals with the repressive kingdom. A deleted documentary is not completely gone, however.