The U.S. Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target and Investigate People https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/treasury-surveillance-location-data-babel-street/
New bipartisan bill takes aim at algorithms https://www.axios.com/algorithm-bill-house-bipartisan-5293581e-430f-4ea1-8477-bd9adb63519c.html
U.S. charges Ukrainian and Russian in major ransomware spree, seizes $6 mln https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-seizes-6-mln-ransom-payments-charge-ukrainian-over-cyberattack-cnn-2021-11-08/
US Offers $10 Million Bounty in Hunt for DarkSide Ransomware Operators https://www.securityweek.com/us-gov-offering-10m-reward-data-darkside-ransomware-operators
Israeli spyware company NSO Group placed on US blacklist https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/03/nso-group-pegasus-spyware-us-blacklist
Tech’s message to the Hill: We’re not Facebook https://www.axios.com/techs-message-to-the-hill-were-not-facebook-579e9138-68b0-4bb3-b9f0-14a131677fca.html
TikTok tells U.S. lawmakers it does not give information to China’s government https://www.reuters.com/technology/tiktok-tells-us-lawmakers-it-does-not-give-information-chinas-government-2021-10-26/
Government Secretly Orders Google To Identify Anyone Who Searched A Sexual Assault Victim’s Name, Address And Telephone Number https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-data-on-search-users/
Got Hacked? Warren Bill Gives 48 Hours to Report Ransom Payments https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-05/ransomware-bill-would-give-victims-48-hours-to-report-payments
Ransomware’s Tipping Point for the US Government and Private Sector https://blog.cymulate.com/ransomwares-tipping-point
US fines former NSA employees who provided hacker-for-hire services to UAE https://therecord.media/us-fines-former-nsa-employees-who-provided-hacker-for-hire-services-to-uae/
Congress will investigate claims that Instagram harms teens https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/15/22675802/facebook-instagram-teens-harm-blumenthal-blackburn-markey-kids
Senator Wyden reflects on 9/11’s Orwellian legacy: unprecedented mass surveillance https://www.fastcompany.com/90675207/ron-wyden-9-11-mass-surveillance-legacy
History of Data Privacy in U.S. Policy https://blog.pentaprivacylock.com/history-of-data-privacy-in-u-s-policy/
Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship https://theintercept.com/2021/08/25/atlas-citizenship-denaturalization-homeland-security/