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Reuters: US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties. “The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media ‌companies to remove or suppress speech, ending a high-profile lawsuit that reached ‌the U.S. Supreme Court when Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden was president.”

Reuters: US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties. “The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media ‌companies to remove or suppress speech, ending a high-profile lawsuit that reached ‌the U.S. Supreme Court when Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden was president.”

Reuters: US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties. “The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media ‌companies to remove or suppress speech, ending a high-profile lawsuit that reached ‌the U.S. Supreme Court when Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden was president.”

Reuters: US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties. “The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media ‌companies to remove or suppress speech, ending a high-profile lawsuit that reached ‌the U.S. Supreme Court when Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden was president.”

Reuters: US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties. “The Trump administration has agreed to a settlement that will bar three federal agencies from pressuring social media ‌companies to remove or suppress speech, ending a high-profile lawsuit that reached ‌the U.S. Supreme Court when Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden was president.”

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/25/openai-persona-secret-government-surveillance-watchlist-exposed-xcxwbn/

Leaked Code Reveals OpenAI's Secret Government Surveillance Network

#AI #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Privacy #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Cybersecurity #DataPrivacy #Security #GovernmentAgencies #IdentityVerification

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/11/aclu-eff-urge-big-tech-to-resist-dhs-data-subpoenas-xcxwbn/

ACLU, EFF Urge Big Tech to Resist DHS Data Subpoenas

#DHS #EFF #ACLU #ICE #BigTech #Google #MetaInc #USGovernment #GovernmentAgencies #DataPrivacy #Surveillance #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/02/07/dhs-deployed-ice-facial-recognition-without-privacy-assessments-xcxwbn/

DHS Deployed ICE Facial Recognition Without Privacy Assessments

#AI #ICE #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Privacy #AIEthics #Biometrics #MassSurveillance #DHS #AIRegulation #USGovernment #GovernmentAgencies

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/01/30/ice-palantir-openai-immigration-enforcement-ai-tools-xcxwbn/

ICE Deploys Palantir, OpenAI Tools for Immigration Enforcement

#ICE #AI #OpenAI #Palantir #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #USGovernment #GovernmentAgencies #AIEthics #DataPrivacy #Biometrics

SendGrid's latest #email campaign: shocking revelations from the inbox of someone who finally used their email service for something other than ignoring error notifications. 🤯 Apparently, #SendGrid is prepping to become the official sponsor of controversial government agencies—because...why not? 🙄
https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/01/09/why-is-sendgrid-emailing-me-about-supporting-ice/ #Campaign #Controversy #EmailMarketing #GovernmentAgencies #ShockingRevelations #HackerNews #ngated

The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

The #Trump administration is launching the #UnitedStates #TechForce to recruit 1,000 #technologists for #twoyearstints in #governmentagencies. The programme, which aims to modernise #government and win the global #AIrace, will involve private sector companies allowing employees to take temporary government roles. https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/12/trump-admin-launches-us-tech-force-recruit-temporary-workers-after-shedding-thousands-year/410159/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

📰 The New Yorker, in an attempt to sound intellectual, published a piece where they pretend to be shocked that government agencies sometimes act politically. Who knew?! 🤔 Meanwhile, the CDC's asterisk scandal of 2025 takes center stage, proving that even footnotes can be infamous. 📉🔬
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/08/the-undermining-of-the-cdc #TheNewYorker #CDCscandal #GovernmentAgencies #PoliticalNews #FootnotesMatter #InfamousStories #HackerNews #ngated

ARC Data Sale Scandal: Airlines’ Travel Records Used for Warrantless Surveillance https://thecyberexpress.com/arc-data-sale/ #AirlinesReportingCorporation #TravelIntelligenceProgram #warrantlesssurveillance #TheCyberExpressNews #governmentagencies #TheCyberExpress #FirewallDaily #privacyrights #travelrecords #BusinessNews #airlinedata #ARCDataSale #databroker #CyberNews

Microsoft alerts businesses, governments to server software attack

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Microsoft has issued an alert about “active attacks” on server software used by government agencies and…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #alertissued #america #business #BUSINESSES #governmentagencies #Microsoft #Microsoft365 #Organizations #private-sectorpartners #serversoftware #SharePoint #spoofing #unitedstatesofamerica
https://www.europesays.com/2262760/

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies — https://seized.fyi/
#HackerNews #websiteSeizure #websiteBanners #governmentAgencies #onlineCensorship #digitalRights

The Register: 100-plus spies fired after NSA internal chat board used for kinky sex talk. “More than 100 US spies have been fired, and their security clearance revoked, after an internal NSA messaging system was used by staff to chat about their sex lives.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/03/the-register-100-plus-spies-fired-after-nsa-internal-chat-board-used-for-kinky-sex-talk/

How Did Elon Musk's Aides Lock Out US Agency Workers from Systems?

#ElonMusk #GovernmentAgencies #TechTalk Hey everyone! 😊 Let’s chat about something that’s been making waves lately: Elon Musk’s aides locking government workers out of computer systems at a US agency. 🤔 That’s quite the move, right? Here’s my take on it: Power Dynamics: It’s fascinating (and a bit worrying) to see ...
https://mymetric360.com/question/how-did-elon-musks-aides-lock-out-us-agency-workers-from-systems/?fsp_sid=24255

https://alameenkarimmerali.substack.com/p/cyber-crime-cartels-operating-on

#crimes #crime #investigation #federal #lawenforcement #intelligence #agencies #government #governmentagencies #cybercrime #cybercrimeinvestigation #digitalforensics #forensics #cartels #cartel #UncoveringTheTruth #TheTruth #CyberCartels #CybercrimeCartels #Cartel #UncoveringCartels #UncoveringCartel #CriminalInvestigation #FBI #CIA #NSA

FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
NSA - National Security Agency

https://alameenkarimmerali.substack.com/p/cyber-crime-cartels-operating-on

#crimes #crime #investigation #federal #lawenforcement #intelligence #agencies #government #governmentagencies #cybercrime #cybercrimeinvestigation #digitalforensics #forensics #cartels #cartel #UncoveringTheTruth #TheTruth #CyberCartels #CybercrimeCartels #Cartel #UncoveringCartels #UncoveringCartel #CriminalInvestigation #FBI #CIA #NSA

I wonder if the only non-classified #FBI documents that the agency may release are blank pages. The #CIA may go one step further and give out old parchment paper. #GovernmentAgencies

#Academics, #universities & #GovernmentAgencies are overhauling or ending #research programs designed to counter the spread of #online #misinformation amid a #legal campaign from #conservative politicians & activists who accuse them of colluding w/ #tech companies to #censor #RightWing views.

The escalating campaign — led by #JimJordan & other #Republicans in #Congress & state gov — has cast a pall over programs that study not just #political falsehoods but also quality of #medical info online.

In 2005, #ClarenceThomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that EXPANDED #Chevron’s #protections for #GovernmentAgencies. 10yrs later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced HIS OWN earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is #unconstitutional after all — a rare #reversal for a justice w/a reputation for being unmovable in his views.

While most Americans aren’t familiar w/the 1984 case #ChevronvNRDC, it’s one of #SCOTUS’s most-cited decisions. #Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as #BrownVBoardOfEducation & #RoeVWade. In essence, #Chevron is about #GovernmentAgencies’ ability to issue #regulations. After a #law is enacted, it’s generally up to #agencies across the gov to make detailed rules to put it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess agencies’ determinations.

…lots of #journalists, #mainstreammedia and #governmentagencies forgot #McLuhan’s “the media is the message”, no difference between #Twitter and #Xitter for them

GIS Powers Innovative Action Among State And Local Governments
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https://www.govtech.com/analytics/gis-powers-innovative-action-among-state-and-local-governments <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #stategovernment #localauthorities #localgov #localgovernment #localgovernments #government #governmentagencies #usecase #appliedscience #appliedtechnology #examples #publicsafety #publichealth #water #hydrology #waterresources #disasterriskreduction #disasterresponse #watermanagement #wildfire #wildfireresponse #wildfiremitigation #naturalhazard #planning #urbanplanning #transportation #infrastructure #community #communityplanning #communityhealth #taxpayers #taxpayerservices #spatialanalysis #environment #ecosystems #climatechange

#WhoKnew there were areas of the #USA where you could #ownProperty and even #HaveACabin or #HaveAHome but be #Landlocked out of it later by #BLM or other #governmentagencies?

#ProtectingTheEnvironment and #salmonFisheries/#SalmonSpawningAreas is very important,and clearly a lot of work and some money would be required to either #RestoreTheTrail they used to use or #ClearANewTrail, but these folks need to be able to #accessProperty they own and used to be able to use. The #FederalBureaucracy effectively using #EminentDomain doesn't seem fair in these cases.

#UmatillaNationalForest #UmatillaForest #UmatillaCounty #Umatilla #MiltonFreewater #SouthFork #WallaWallaRiver #HarrisPark #BurntCabinTrail #Oregon #NortheastOregon #LandownerAccess

https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/governments/property-owners-battle-federal-bureaucracy-to-restore-access-to-homes-near-south-fork-of-walla/article_ef1adc16-9c3b-11ed-a00d-9b551b53cb0a.html

#WhoKnew there were areas of the #USA where you could #ownProperty and even #HaveACabin or #HaveAHome but be #Landlocked out of it later by #BLM or other #governmentagencies?

#ProtectingTheEnvironment and #salmonFisheries/#SalmonSpawningAreas is very important,and clearly a lot of work and some money would be required to either #RestoreTheTrail they used to use or #ClearANewTrail, but these folks need to be able to #accessProperty they own and used to be able to use. The #FederalBureaucracy effectively using #EminentDomain doesn't seem fair in these cases.

#UmatillaNationalForest #UmatillaForest #UmatillaCounty #Umatilla #MiltonFreewater #SouthFork #WallaWallaRiver #HarrisPark #BurntCabinTrail #Oregon #NortheastOregon #LandownerAccess

https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/governments/property-owners-battle-federal-bureaucracy-to-restore-access-to-homes-near-south-fork-of-walla/article_ef1adc16-9c3b-11ed-a00d-9b551b53cb0a.html

#WhoKnew there were areas of the #USA where you could #ownProperty and even #HaveACabin or #HaveAHome but be #Landlocked out of it later by #BLM or other #governmentagencies?

#ProtectingTheEnvironment and #salmonFisheries/#SalmonSpawningAreas is very important,and clearly a lot of work and some money would be required to either #RestoreTheTrail they used to use or #ClearANewTrail, but these folks need to be able to #accessProperty they own and used to be able to use. The #FederalBureaucracy effectively using #EminentDomain doesn't seem fair in these cases.

#UmatillaNationalForest #UmatillaForest #UmatillaCounty #Umatilla #MiltonFreewater #SouthFork #WallaWallaRiver #HarrisPark #BurntCabinTrail #Oregon #NortheastOregon #LandownerAccess

https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/governments/property-owners-battle-federal-bureaucracy-to-restore-access-to-homes-near-south-fork-of-walla/article_ef1adc16-9c3b-11ed-a00d-9b551b53cb0a.html

#WhoKnew there were areas of the #USA where you could #ownProperty and even #HaveACabin or #HaveAHome but be #Landlocked out of it later by #BLM or other #governmentagencies?

#ProtectingTheEnvironment and #salmonFisheries/#SalmonSpawningAreas is very important,and clearly a lot of work and some money would be required to either #RestoreTheTrail they used to use or #ClearANewTrail, but these folks need to be able to #accessProperty they own and used to be able to use. The #FederalBureaucracy effectively using #EminentDomain doesn't seem fair in these cases.

#UmatillaNationalForest #UmatillaForest #UmatillaCounty #Umatilla #MiltonFreewater #SouthFork #WallaWallaRiver #HarrisPark #BurntCabinTrail #Oregon #NortheastOregon #LandownerAccess

https://www.union-bulletin.com/news/local/governments/property-owners-battle-federal-bureaucracy-to-restore-access-to-homes-near-south-fork-of-walla/article_ef1adc16-9c3b-11ed-a00d-9b551b53cb0a.html

#introduction

Hi,

I've been bumping around the internet industry since the early 1990s. There is record of my being one of the earliest webmaster (among the first 30) when I was in college.

I'm a believer in technology's potential for good and worry about its dark side.

I'm running a startup helping #NonProfit and #governmentagencies in #HumanServices ( https://www.casebook.net )

In my spare time, I love #reading #writing and thinking about building a #BetterNet