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  1. #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 #blackmarket

    wired.com/story/ross-ulbricht-

  2. 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.
    #tracking

    aclu.org/news/privacy-technolo

  3. #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.
    #advertising #fridge #privacy #refrigerator

    arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

  4. #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.
    #rfk

    arstechnica.com/health/2026/05

  5. #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.

    tech.slashdot.org/story/26/04/

  6. #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 #security

    404media.co/webinartv-secretly

  7. 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 #security

    wired.com/story/your-vape-want

  8. 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.
    #security

    wired.com/story/the-race-is-on

  9. 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

    wired.com/story/metalenz-polar

  10. 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

    wired.com/story/metalenz-polar

  11. 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

    wired.com/story/metalenz-polar

  12. Exclusive First Look at , the Rival for Phones

    Metalenz's 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.

    wired.com/story/metalenz-polar

  13. 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

    wired.com/story/metalenz-polar

  14. #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
    #privacy

    propublica.org/article/dhs-tru

  15. #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
    #privacy

    propublica.org/article/dhs-tru

  16. #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
    #privacy

    propublica.org/article/dhs-tru

  17. Seeks Access to Massive , & Family DB Legally Restricted to Use in Cases

    admin’s 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 , & it’s for finding people who owe child support

    propublica.org/article/dhs-tru

  18. #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
    #privacy

    propublica.org/article/dhs-tru

  19. #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 #genes

    wired.com/story/congress-deman

  20. 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.”
    #att

    arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

  21. 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.
    #zambia #China

    wired.com/story/the-chinese-go

  22. 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.
    #zambia #China

    wired.com/story/the-chinese-go

  23. 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.
    #zambia #China

    wired.com/story/the-chinese-go

  24. The Government Just Got the World’s Largest Digital Conference Canceled

    , the group that organizes , says officials asked it to exclude participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned.

    wired.com/story/the-chinese-go

  25. 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.
    #zambia #China

    wired.com/story/the-chinese-go

  26. #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 #security

    404media.co/china-pressure-can