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#RossUlbricht Got a $31 Million Donation From a #DarkWeb Dealer, #Crypto Tracers Suspect
Crypto-tracing firm #Chainalysis says the mysterious 300-bitcoin donation to the pardoned #SilkRoad creator appears to have come from someone associated with a different defunct black market: #AlphaBay.
#privacy #bitcoin #blackmarkethttps://www.wired.com/story/ross-ulbricht-31-million-donation-alphabay/
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State #Barcode Laws
Digital driver’s #licenses — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the likelihood that once they make it very frictionless to share our #ID, we are likely to be bombarded by requests from all quarters to prove who we are. That’s a huge threat to our #privacy. There is, however, a set of existing laws in the states that point to a solution for this problem: regulations governing who may scan the bar codes on physical #IDs.
#trackinghttps://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/state-barcode-laws
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#Samsung makes #ads on $3,499 smart #fridges official with upcoming software update
Samsung also said that its fridges will only show contextualized ads, instead of personalized ads, which rely on collecting data on users.
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#FDA #vaccine studies #censored by #Trump admin after finding benefits of shots
Despite Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's pledge to provide "radical transparency," the agencies under his control continue to suppress scientific #research that conflicts with his anti-vaccine agenda.
The NYT reported confirmation from the Dept of #HHS that the #FDA had blocked the publication of studies showing the safety and efficacy of #vaccines against #COVID19 and shingles.
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#Palantir Posts #BondVillain #Manifesto On X
Palantir has posted to X a summary of CEO #AlexKarp & Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The #TechnologicalRepublic , which reads like a utopian idealist doodled on a Bond villain's whiteboard. While the post makes some decent points, it also highlights the Big-AI attitude that the #AI #surveillance state is in fact a good thing, & strongly implies that the Good Guys need to do #warcrimes before the #BadGuys get around to it.
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#WebinarTV Secretly #Scraped #Zoom Meetings of #Anonymous Recovery Programs
WebinarTV, a site that scrapes Zoom webinars without permission, has downloaded & posted #ZoomWebinars for anonymous #addiction recovery meetings, support groups for #caregivers and people who suffer from chronic illness, and a meeting of #nudists.
WebinarTV’s Michael Robertson told me that the company asks every single person for permission to “promote” their webinars, but …
#privacy #securityhttps://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/
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Revisiting the #NEA Four: #FreeSpeech Battles in the #Arts https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/revisiting-the-nea-four-free-speech-battles-in-the-arts
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Your #Vape Wants to Know How Old You Are
Companies hope that #biometric age-verification tech in cartridges could put flavored vapes back in business. But it's unlikely to solve the real problems.
#ageverification #privacy #securityhttps://www.wired.com/story/your-vape-wants-to-know-how-old-you-are/
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The Race Is on to Keep #AI #Agents From Running Wild With Your #CreditCards
#AIagents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The #FIDO Alliance has teamed up with #Google and #Mastercard to try to ensure that #shopping in the near future isn't a complete disaster.
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Exclusive First Look at #PolarID, the #FaceID Rival for #Android Phones
Metalenz's #biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.#facialrecognition
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Exclusive First Look at #PolarID, the #FaceID Rival for #Android Phones
Metalenz's #biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.#facialrecognition
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Exclusive First Look at #PolarID, the #FaceID Rival for #Android Phones
Metalenz's #biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.#facialrecognition
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Exclusive First Look at #PolarID, the #FaceID Rival for #Android Phones
Metalenz's #biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.#facialrecognition
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Exclusive First Look at #PolarID, the #FaceID Rival for #Android Phones
Metalenz's #biometric tech is poised to finally give Android owners a more secure form of facial recognition—and in time could even check skin for cancerous growths or measure air quality.#facialrecognition
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#DHS Seeks Access to Massive #Employment , #Salary & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in #ChildSupport Cases
#Trump admin’s #immigration enforcement arm is requesting access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive gov DB of people in US & their most private info, including sensitive details about indiv children, according to 6 current & former officials
It is called #FederalParentLocatorService , & it’s for finding people who owe child support
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#DHS Seeks Access to Massive #Employment , #Salary & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in #ChildSupport Cases
#Trump admin’s #immigration enforcement arm is requesting access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive gov DB of people in US & their most private info, including sensitive details about indiv children, according to 6 current & former officials
It is called #FederalParentLocatorService , & it’s for finding people who owe child support
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#DHS Seeks Access to Massive #Employment , #Salary & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in #ChildSupport Cases
#Trump admin’s #immigration enforcement arm is requesting access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive gov DB of people in US & their most private info, including sensitive details about indiv children, according to 6 current & former officials
It is called #FederalParentLocatorService , & it’s for finding people who owe child support
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#DHS Seeks Access to Massive #Employment , #Salary & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in #ChildSupport Cases
#Trump admin’s #immigration enforcement arm is requesting access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive gov DB of people in US & their most private info, including sensitive details about indiv children, according to 6 current & former officials
It is called #FederalParentLocatorService , & it’s for finding people who owe child support
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#DHS Seeks Access to Massive #Employment , #Salary & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in #ChildSupport Cases
#Trump admin’s #immigration enforcement arm is requesting access to what is considered to be the most comprehensive gov DB of people in US & their most private info, including sensitive details about indiv children, according to 6 current & former officials
It is called #FederalParentLocatorService , & it’s for finding people who owe child support
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#FAA Scraps Civil and Criminal Penalties for Flying #Drones Near #ICE Vehicles
#surveillancehttps://www.404media.co/faa-scraps-civil-and-criminal-penalties-for-flying-drones-near-ice-vehicles/
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#Congress Demands Answers on Data #Privacy Ahead of #23andMe Sale
House #Democrats sent letters to the potential buyers of the #GeneticTesting company, asking how they plan to protect customer #GeneticData under a change of ownership.
#dna #geneshttps://www.wired.com/story/congress-demands-answers-on-data-privacy-ahead-of-23andme-sale/
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Are #Employers Using Your Data To Figure Out the Lowest #Salary You'll Accept?
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AT&T ad congratulating itself for its #ethics violated an ad-industry rule
The #NAD said that AT&T’s action threatens the “integrity and success of the self-regulatory forum,” and “undermines NAD’s mission to promote truth and accuracy of #advertising claims and foster consumer trust in the marketplace.”
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The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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The #Chinese Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital #Rights Conference Canceled
#AccessNow , the group that organizes #RightsCon , says #Zambian officials asked it to exclude #Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.
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#China Pressure Canceled World’s Largest Digital #HumanRights Conference
The #Chinese government pressured #Zambia to cancel #RightsCon , the world’s largest digital human #rights conference, at the last minute, accordingto the conference’s organizers. #Beijing was upset that the speaker’s list included prominent figures from #Taiwanese civil society, #AccessNow , the group that organizes RightsCon, wrote Friday.
#privacy #securityhttps://www.404media.co/china-pressure-canceled-worlds-largest-digital-human-rights-conference/