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I checked and @hypervisible.blacksky.app has not yet shared this so let me be the first to share it with him and you because this is some next-level cop sh*t. futurism.com/openai-scann...
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
futurism.com
August 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I checked and @hypervisible.blacksky.app has not yet shared this so let me be the first to share it with him and you because this is some next-level cop sh*t. futurism.com/openai-scann...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
🔗 www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border:
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
www.404media.co
June 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
NEW: ICE is using a facial recognition smartphone app that pulls faces from CBP's database of people who cross the border:
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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The FBI says it can't find "missing" records about hacking tools it purchased www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...
The FBI Can't Find ‘Missing’ Records of Its Hacking Tools
The FBI bought multiple hacking tools for $250,000. Despite that, the FBI says it can't find any more records about the tools.
www.404media.co
April 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The FBI says it can't find "missing" records about hacking tools it purchased www.404media.co/the-fbi-cant...
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New from 404 Media: ICE is planning a central database of health, labor, and housing agency data to find targets for deportation. The tool, called ATrac or Alien Tracker, already has data from Social Security Administration. Is used to send targets to teams in field
www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...
www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...
ICE Plans Central Database of Health, Labor, Housing Agency Data to Find Targets
A document viewed by 404 Media describes ICE's plans to incorporate data from the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...
www.404media.co
April 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
New from 404 Media: ICE is planning a central database of health, labor, and housing agency data to find targets for deportation. The tool, called ATrac or Alien Tracker, already has data from Social Security Administration. Is used to send targets to teams in field
www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...
www.404media.co/ice-plans-ce...
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New from 404 Media: Flock, the company that makes automatic license plate reading cameras for communities and has sprang up around the US, sent a cease and desist to an open source developer who has been mapping Flock's spread. DeFlock is fighting back www.404media.co/flock-threat...
Flock Threatens Open Source Developer Mapping Its Surveillance Cameras
The surveillance camera company Flock sent DeFlock a cease-and-desist. DeFlock is fighting back.
www.404media.co
February 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM
New from 404 Media: Flock, the company that makes automatic license plate reading cameras for communities and has sprang up around the US, sent a cease and desist to an open source developer who has been mapping Flock's spread. DeFlock is fighting back www.404media.co/flock-threat...
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Again, more excellent acts of journalism. Keep it up. The people carrying out Musk's orders deserve public scrutiny.
🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets
Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information.
www.bloomberg.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Again, more excellent acts of journalism. Keep it up. The people carrying out Musk's orders deserve public scrutiny.
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The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
The Washington Post reported that the United Kingdom is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to give the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud. Encryption is one of th...
www.eff.org
February 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The UK's Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Secret UK order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.
Some of us have been waiting for this showdown since 2016 when the Snoopers' Charter was passed.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Some of us have been waiting for this showdown since 2016 when the Snoopers' Charter was passed.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Secret UK order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.
Some of us have been waiting for this showdown since 2016 when the Snoopers' Charter was passed.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Some of us have been waiting for this showdown since 2016 when the Snoopers' Charter was passed.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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FEMA workers responding to wildfires ordered to say 'alien' instead of 'immigrant':
"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.
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"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.
🔗 www.404media.co/for-immediat...
February 6, 2025 at 7:50 PM
FEMA workers responding to wildfires ordered to say 'alien' instead of 'immigrant':
"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.
🔗 www.404media.co/for-immediat...
"This is the most 1984 email I've ever seen," one worker said.
🔗 www.404media.co/for-immediat...
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You can’t post your way out of fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You can’t post your way out of fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them
🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Despite the Trump administration’s efforts, much of the deleted DOJ database can be found on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. And thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot live on ProPublica’s website and other places. 👇
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U.S. Senator Josh Hawley proposes jail Time for people who download DeepSeek
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🔗 www.404media.co/senator-hawl...
February 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley proposes jail Time for people who download DeepSeek
🔗 www.404media.co/senator-hawl...
🔗 www.404media.co/senator-hawl...
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I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press
Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.
freedom.press
February 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
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GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...
February 4, 2025 at 10:39 PM
GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases.
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...
A project called "Remove-DEI" shows the tweaks used to remove "forbidden words" from a database about childhood school readiness.
🔗 www.404media.co/forbidden-wo...
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AI-Generated slop Is already In your public library:
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
February 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
AI-Generated slop Is already In your public library:
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...
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February 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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A senator is proposing jail time for people who downloaded DeepSeek. 20 years in jail, million dollar fine, or both. www.404media.co/senator-hawl...
Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
According to the language of the proposed bill, people who download AI models from China could face up to 20 years in jail, a million dollar fine, or both.
www.404media.co
February 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
A senator is proposing jail time for people who downloaded DeepSeek. 20 years in jail, million dollar fine, or both. www.404media.co/senator-hawl...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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New from 404 Media: "everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. Also said DeepSeek will not affect Meta as badly as it has affected the valuations of companies like OpenAI and Nvidia.
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
New from 404 Media: "everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. Also said DeepSeek will not affect Meta as badly as it has affected the valuations of companies like OpenAI and Nvidia.
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
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California law enforcement misused access to sensitive information stored in a state criminal justice system more than 7000 times in 2023, largely driven by the LA County Sheriff's Department improperly using it during concealed carry background checks.
California Law Enforcement Misused State Databases More Than 7,000 Times in 2023
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background ch...
www.eff.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
California law enforcement misused access to sensitive information stored in a state criminal justice system more than 7000 times in 2023, largely driven by the LA County Sheriff's Department improperly using it during concealed carry background checks.
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OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI shocked that an AI company would train on someone else's data without permission or compensation.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
OpenAI shocked and appalled that an AI company would steal intellectual property
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
www.404media.co/openai-furio...
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Some of the OPM memos ordering federal employees to return to offices and ordering hiring freezes were written by people who worked on Project 2025, according to metadata on the documents www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...
Memos to Federal Employees Were Written By People With Ties to Project 2025, Metadata Shows
James Sherk and Noah Peters appear as the authors of memos sent by the Office of Personnel Management.
www.404media.co
January 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Some of the OPM memos ordering federal employees to return to offices and ordering hiring freezes were written by people who worked on Project 2025, according to metadata on the documents www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...
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January 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM