The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Settlement Checks Coming for 2021 T-Mobile Breach In 2021 a T-Mobile breach exposed data on 76 million customers. This is separate from the 2023 breach that impacted 37 million customers. If you are one of them, you may be eligible for some money. But don’t celebrate yet. The settlement is for $350 million. If all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Downloads Soar After Signalgate While, possibly, the use of Signal in Washington may decrease, Signal says the number of downloads it is seeing is double the usual rate. Prior to Signalgate, Signal was already having a banner year, so this just makes it a double banner year. Maybe people think that if Signal is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Court Rules FISA 702 Surveillance of US Resident Unconstitutional It will be interesting to see if this holds up under appeal. A court in NY ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is not a free pass when it comes to surveilling US residents. If this holds, this is a huge win to reduce […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
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