California can share gun owners’ personal information with researchers, appeals court rules https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/nation-world/story/2023-11-21/california-can-share-gun-owners-personal-information-with-researchers-appeals-court-rules
US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans’ phone records – ‘usually’ without a warrant https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/22/wyden_hemisphere_letter/
CEO Reminds Everyone His Company Collects Customers’ Sleep Data to Make Zeitgeisty Point About OpenAI Drama https://www.404media.co/ceo-reminds-everyone-eightsleep-pod-collects-sleep-data-to-make-zeitgeisty-point-about-openai-drama/
Sunbird is shutting down its iMessage app for Android https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/21/23970740/sunbird-imessage-app-shut-down-privacy-nothing-chats-phone-2
FBI Director Admits Agency Rarely Has Probable Cause When It Performs Backdoor Searches Of NSA Collections https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/
The creepy AI-driven surveillance that may be infiltrating your workplace https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-surveillance-detects-emotion-at-work-gets-you-fired-2023-11
High Marks For Priestly Principal Tamping Down Model Student’s Footloose Fun https://www.orwell.org/high-marks-for-priestly-principal-tamping-down-model-students-footloose-fun/
Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space, and the UAE military is allegedly a “strong” customer https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/lockheed-is-now-tracking-phones-and
Online Atrocity Database Exposed Thousands of Vulnerable People in Congo https://theintercept.com/2023/11/17/congo-hrw-nyu-security-data/
The Comfort of Vigilance Embraces America’s Schools https://www.orwell.org/the-comfort-of-vigilance-embraces-americas-schools/
‘Grief Tech’ Creates AI Version of Dead Parents for You to Ignore https://www.orwell.org/grief-tech-creates-ai-version-of-dead-parents-for-you-to-ignore/
Customs and Border Protection acquired ‘huge amount of surveillance power’ https://therecord.media/cbp-lexisnexis-risk-solutions-contract-surveillance
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone/