With demonstrations crawling against the Trump administration, this week was protests. With President Donald Trump took the historical step to deploy US Marines and the National Guard to Los -English the “long -term dangers” to send soldiers to theas well as What those troops are allowed to do while they are there.
Of course, not only is the military involved in the protests of the against the heavy cracks by immigration and customs duties (ICE). There is also Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which Further climbed federal involvement by flying predatory drones over the. And are local and state authorities that are Used “no -garden” weapons And chemical agents like tear gas against protesters. Even the self-driving taxis of Waymo-all of whom were on fire during last weekend’s protests could be used to investigate people who commit crimes during demonstrations Thanks to their surveillance skills.
In addition to protests, the undocumented community rejects ICE’s mandatory activities Transforming social media platforms into DIY For ice attacks and other activities. And with thousands of protests scheduled to take place this weekend, we have updated our guide to protecting your privacy– In addition to Your physical safety–While proof.
Even if you are not an immigrant or attend any protests, it is possible that your data is still divided with immigration authorities. In partnership with Wired, 404 Media this week revealed that a data broker owned by Major Airlines sold domestic US flying data to CBP and instructed the agency not to reveal that it did so. 404 also detailed a bug that allowed a researcher Discover the phone numbers connected to some Google accounts. (The bug has since been repaired.) Finally, we dissected Apple’s strategywho seems to bank more about privacy than splashy.
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The Trump administration quietly ordered the transfer of Medicaid data belonging to undocumented individuals to deportation officials this week, according to the related press, in move legal experts warns that it is likely that public trust in the treatment of personal data and result in a cold impact among undocumented people.
The delivery, reportedly ordered by Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And included names, addresses, immigration status and health claims, relates to millions of registered people, many of states who pay for coverage with their own finances, reports the AP. The transfer may also be illegal, violating the social security law and other data using data. According to the AP, Medicaid officials have warned the administration that they have no legal authority to disseminate the records and that to do so will carry legal and reputation risks that could lead states to start refusing to share information with the federal government, affecting the agency’s operational functions.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, whose state is occupied by unwanted federal military forces and ice agents making continuous brooms through neighborhoods heavily inhabited by immigrants, condemned the action, calling it “potentially illegal.” HHS official rejected the claim, saying that the agency acted full conformity to the law, while a decline to explain to reporters how the data will actually be used.
Cross, NSO group. Two Italian journalists were hacked by espionage made by Israeli telephone-focus surveillance company Paragon, Citizen Lab revealed this week in a report based on legal analyzes of their phones. Two other Italians, both employees at the non -profit non -profit Mediterranean saving of people, also had their phones committed to the same malware. Paragon’s graphite malware, such as NSO Pegasus, infects phones with zero-click technique, which requires no interaction from the victim-in this case using vulnerability in iPhones, which was beaten in an iOS version 18.3 earlier this year. While Citizen Lab was unable to determine the Paragon client behind the intrusions, there are reasons to suspect the Italian government, considering that the Italian Parliamentary Committee determined in a report earlier this month, that two Italian smart agencies are paragonic clients.
In its latest salvation against the Russian Air Force, the Hur Army Intelligence Agency of Ukraine said it hacked into the Tupolev network, an airspace company that manufactures and serves Russia’s strategic bombers. According to the registry of cybersecurity, the Ukrainian state hackers claim to steal 4.4 gigabits of data, including internal communications, meeting notes, files and purchasing records. Specifically, Hur says it aimed at data about individuals involved in the service and maintenance of the Bomber’s Fleet of Russia, which aimed at Ukrainian cities. The hackers also fell off the home page of the Tupolev website to show an owl sticking a Russian aircraft. “There is nothing secret in Tupolev’s activities for Ukrainian intelligence,” Hur said in a statement. “The result of the operation will be remarkable both on the earth and in the sky.” The move follows Ukraine’s unprecedented drone operation earlier this month, which damaged or destroyed 41 Russian aircraft, including bombers and spy aircraft.
On Wednesday, an Interpol police officers and 26 countries announced a removal, called “Operation safe”, domains and other digital infrastructure linked to 69 infostealer -malware variants. In recent years, malicious hackers have more and more supported Informing-stealing malwareor infostealers, which take on sensitive information such as passwords, cookies and search stories to facilitate attackers to target specific organizations and individuals. Operation Secue ran from January to April this year, Interpol said, and involved taking away from over 20,000 malicious IP addresses or domains and taking 41 servers as well as over 100 GB of data. A total of 32 people were also arrested in conjunction with the survey in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Nauru and elsewhere. Interpol described the operation as a “regional initiative” organized by the Asia and a South Pacific joint operation against Cybercrime Project.
Meta sued Hong Kong -based joyous Timeline HK Limited for repeatedly advertising an app on Instagram called Crushai, which offers “nudity” deep departments, using artificial intelligence to remove anyone’s clothes in photo. Meta said in its announcement of the complaint that the company has repeatedly violated its services for advertisers and that the move is part of a larger split to similar Deepfake programs pushed by “opposing advertisers” because it doubts the companies that violate their terms. “We will continue to take the necessary steps – which could include legal action – against those who abuse our platforms like this,” Meta wrote in a statement.
