From Ed Hasbrouck of Papers, Please! and The Practical Nomad A cyber-security primer for travellers, immigrants, emigrants, dissidents, and activists Threats Introduction to threat modeling Threats to travellers’ digital devices and data Data at risk Backups Data minimization and curation Apps to watch out for Leave fewer traces. Passwords Overview and summary Device encryption Passwords…
NYCLU warns police are using ‘highly invasive’ drones to surveil New Yorkers
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports: STATEWIDE — POLICE DEPARTMENTS ARE “flooding the skies” with highly invasive surveillance drones without regulation or oversight, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) warned Tuesday in its report, “Prying Eyes: Government Drone Data Across New York.” NYPD has quadrupled its drone arsenal since 2022, from 19 to 99, a 421% increase, according…
Congress Takes Another Step Toward Enabling Broad Internet Censorship
India McKinney of EFF writes: The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday advanced the TAKE IT DOWN Act (S. 146) , a bill that seeks to speed up the removal of certain kinds of troubling online content. While the bill is meant to address a serious problem—the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII)—the notice-and-takedown system it…
Musk’s DOGE using AI to snoop on U.S. federal workers, sources say
Alexandra Ulmer, Marisa Taylor, Jeffrey Dastin and Alexandra Alper of Reuters report: Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk’s DOGE team of technologists is using artificial intelligence to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda, said two people with knowledge of…