ICE
ICE’s Plan to Let Cops Around the Country Scan Faces to Verify Immigration Status
ICE plans to give potentially more than a thousand agencies access to a facial recognition app that verifies a person's immigration status.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Dangerous Memes
This week, we discuss controversial memes, good times at Meta, and more.
Impact
Immigrant Rights Lawyers File Lawsuit Over Palantir’s ELITE
Just Futures Law is seeking a wealth of documents related to the tech Palantir provides to ICE.
Podcast
Podcast: Hackers Asked Meta AI To Let Them In. It Worked
The insane Meta AI hack; Amazon's internal AI leaderboard; and our lawsuit against ICE.
palantir
Here is the Contract for Palantir’s Super API for the IRS
The API would make IRS data available to any app the agency wishes. The Criminal Investigation arm of the IRS is also modernizing its own systems.
FOIA
We Sued ICE to Get Its Spyware Contract. The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything
Paragon's software is capable of remotely breaking into phones and accessing messages from encrypted messaging apps. Our lawsuit aims to pry records about it from ICE.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Being New and Some Numbers
This week, we discuss going deeper and Google's search changes.
News
‘Cracked Oura’ Is an App For Using the Oura Ring Without the Monthly Subscription
On Thursday Oura announced the nearly $500 Ring 5. But what if you don't want to pay a monthly subscription to access your health data?
Podcast
Podcast: How Deepfakes Destroyed a High School
How deepfakes rocked a high school; BusPatrol giving AI camera data to cops; and a big time crash out.
Podcast
Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)
Joseph talks to Zack Whittaker all about stalkerware, the pervasive malware that ordinary people install on their partners' phones.
News
‘BusPatrol’ Put AI Cameras in Tens of Thousands of School Buses. Now They Want to Give Cops Access
BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: The Attention Wars
This week, we discuss Spencer Pratt, bricking phones, and the FTC.