I’m mildly surprised they don’t do this already.
Oh, if only there was some sort of agency that is versed in the many ways of SIGINT and could be tasked with securing the government’s internal communications.
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You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America’s browsing history without a warrant?
Congress has been urged to introduce a measure that would require the FBI to get a warrant before agents can review Americans’ internet browsing and search histories – just days after an amendment to do that fell by one vote in the Senate.
More than 50 advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), and Human Rights Watch, have written a letter [PDF] to the leaders of the US House of Representatives asking them to add a similar warrant requirement to the USA Freedom Act – a law bill reauthorizing several spy programs – when it comes before them.
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Zoom continues its catch-up security sprint with new training, bug bounty tweaks and promise of crypto playbook
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After all that, they’re pleading guilty anyway, with a 5-month jail sentence:
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Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation’s skies
The runaway experimental drone that closed Latvia’s skies to international flights after it went missing has been found lodged in a tree.
At the beginning of this month, Latvia’s airspace was all but closed to long-distance flights after the 26kg craft, made by local firm SIA UAVFactory, disappeared on a test flight. Now the errant autonomous aircraft has been found.
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Clearview AI sued by ACLU for scraping billions of selfies from social media to power its facial-recog-for-cops system
The American Civil Liberties Union has sued Clearview AI for scraping billions of photos from public social media profiles, without people’s explicit consent, to train its facial-recognition system.
The lawsuit [PDF], filed on Thursday at the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, claims Clearview violated the state’s stringent Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). Companies operating in Illinois must obtain explicit consent from individuals if they collect their biometric data, whether it’s in the form of fingerprints or photographs.
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Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam
Twitter, Reddit, and the Internet Association on Thursday filed a legal brief in support of a challenge to the US State Department’s policy of requiring visa applicants to disclose their social media handles and profiles.
The State Department policy was introduced in 2017 and was criticized at the time as a deterrent to free speech. An estimated 14.7m people apply for a US visa from abroad each year.
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Remember when Republicans said Dems hacked voting systems to rig Georgia’s election? There were no hacks
On November 4th, 2018, now-Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp announced an investigation into his rival Democratic party, accusing the organization of trying to hack the US state’s voter registration system.
The accusation, presented without evidence, was greeted skeptically at the time as it came two days before Kemp, then Secretary of State of Georgia, faced voters in a close race with Democrat Stacey Abrams to become the state’s next governor.
It was a hard-fought contest, with claims of voter suppression and other irregularities that saw Kemp winning by barely one per cent of votes cast.
On Friday, ProPublica and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) found “no evidence of damage to (the Secretary of State’s office) network or computers, and no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data.”
That assessment came from a senior assistant attorney general who recommended in March that the GBI’s investigation of the claimed incident be closed.
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Our favorite bridge in Durham, NC got a recent snack.
Still no full canopeners since they raised the bridge, though.
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If nothing else this guy’s cameras are just showcasing how frequently people in Durham will run a red light. That wasn’t even close.
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Excellent news!
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Good to hear that. I thought that ship had sailed, but it appears not!
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You should go put that in the good news thread, too.
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Excellent idea 
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