A bipartisan privacy coalition in the United States Congress introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a strict warrant requirement on the FBI’s backdoor searches of Americans’ communications, aligning federal law with a 2025 federal court ruling that found the… Read More "US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access"
The US Department of Homeland Security removed multiple career Customs and Border Protection officials from their roles this year after they objected to orders to mislabel records about surveillance technologies and block their release under the Freedom of Information Act,… Read More "DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders"
Computers leak secrets. Not just through invasive ad tracking, data-stealing malware, and your ill-advised oversharing on social media, but through physics. The movements of a hard drive’s components, keystrokes on a keyboard, even the electric charge in a semiconductor’s wires… Read More "How Vulnerable Are Computers to an 80-Year-Old Spy Technique? Congress Wants Answers"
Coordinated Israeli and American strikes hit a military compound in Tehran on Saturday, killing dozens of senior regime figures including Iran’s supreme leader, Ali al-Khamenei. Within hours, the government imposed a near-total internet blackout, cutting the country off from the… Read More "How Journalists Are Reporting From Iran With No Internet"
