PORTLAND, Ore.—A Granite Bay, California man was arrested and appeared in federal court Tuesday after he was indicted in Oregon for cyberstalking his ex-girlfriend and posting sexually explicit photos online. Jason David Campos, 42, has been charged with stalking, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, between 2009 and 2023, Campos is alleged…
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DOGE is building a master database to surveil and track immigrants
Makena Kelly Vittoria Elliott Operatives from Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are building a master database at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that could track and surveil undocumented immigrants, two sources with direct knowledge tell WIRED. DOGE is knitting together immigration databases from across DHS and uploading data from outside agencies including the Social Security…
State Privacy Regulators Announce Formation of Privacy ‘Supergroup’
Lauren N. Watson of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. The concept of the “supergroup” may have originated with rock and roll, but on April 16, 2025, privacy practitioners in the United States learned that a whole new type of supergroup has been formed. Far from being a reboot of Cream or the Traveling…
Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional
Matthew Gault reports: This article was produced in collaboration with 404 Media, a new independent technology investigations site. A judge in Nevada has ruled that “tower dumps”—the law enforcement practice of grabbing vast troves of private personal data from cell towers—is unconstitutional. The judge also ruled that the cops could, this one time, still use the…