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Anthropic says no to Pentagon demand for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons
Anthropic, best-known for its Claude AI platform, will be losing Pentagon business after it declined to change its policies against using its technology for mass surveillance of Americans or to create...
Ring's CEO said lost-dog finder was always meant to be a human surveillance platform, says leaked email
Ring CEO Jamie Siminoff wants to /'zero out crime in neighborhoods,/' and the lost-dog finder was just the first step. In a leaked internal email from October, Siminoff told employees that Search Party...
Invasive and ineffective: DHS's facial recognition system
The Department of Homeland Security has switched to a mobile facial recognition system that combines two of the worst qualities a government surveillance tool can have: it tramples privacy and doesn't...
How sleuths are recovering hidden Epstein documents
The DOJ's release of Epstein-related documents was supposed to be redacted, but whoever did the job left a backdoor wide open. Email attachments were stored as base64-encoded text — basically, the raw...
ICE can demand your data from Google without a warrant
If you attend a protest and post about it on Instagram, federal agents may already have a way to find out who you are. The Department of Homeland Security has administrative subpoena power — meaning i...
Stephen Wolfram: computation is the universe's OS
Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram has spent nearly 50 years arguing that simple computational rules underlie everything from animal patterns to the laws of physics. In his 2023 TED talk, he makes th...
California orders Musk's xAI to stop generating sexual deepfakes immediately
California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a cease and desist letter to xAI ordering Elon Musk's company to stop creating and distributing nonconsensual sexual images, CalMatters reports. The letter c...
Ireland wants to give police spyware and facial recognition powers
Ireland is introducing the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill to modernize its 1993 surveillance laws. The bill would let police intercept all forms of communication, including encry...