Exclusive: Tatjana Zdanoka, a Latvian member of the European Parliament, has been an agent of Russian intelligence for at least twenty years, The Insider can reveal, based on emails we obtained between Zdanoka and two of her FSB handlers. theins.press/en/politics/26…

NSA discloses warrantless purchase of Americans' internet activity metadata from data brokers, sparking debates over surveillance and privacy laws nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/…

Nederlandse telefoons online stiekem te volgen: ‘Extreem veiligheidsrisico’

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We're revealing details of an obscure debugging feature in the Apple A12-A16 SoC’s that bypasses all of the hard-to-hack hardware-based memory protections on new iPhones. Its not used by the firmware and we don't know how the attackers found out about it. securelist.com/operation-tria…

Met data uit de online-advertentieindustrie is het eenvoudig om sleutelfiguren uit onze samenleving te identificeren, chanteren en bespioneren. Gevoelige data van politici, militairen en zelfs medewerkers van veiligheidsdiensten: het is allemaal te koop.

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Volgens deskundigen is de ongebreidelde handel in al deze data een 'goudmijn' voor inlichtingendiensten uit binnen- en buitenland. Zij waarschuwen echter dat dit niet alleen een bruikbaar wapen voor onze eigen diensten is, maar ook bedreiging voor onze nationale veiligheid.

Je leest het vandaag bij Follow the Money, met dank aan Robbert Hak, Danny Pronk and Paul Pols.

With special thanks to Wolfie Christl and Johnny Ryan for their hard work on this industry with Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈.

Little incentive for governments to rein in the adtech industry:

“Adtech Surveillance and Government Surveillance are Often the Same Surveillance”

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WSJ News Exclusive: Technology embedded in our phones and computers to serve up ads can also end up serving government surveillance on.wsj.com/3rZ60zY

Apparently the EU Commissioner has begun a micro-targeting campaign on Twitter/X in favor of her content scanning regulation, and it explicitly *excludes* people who care about privacy or are skeptical of the EU. dannymekic.com/202310/undermi…

The European Commission wants to start eavesdropping on all our private messages, photos/videos and conversations(!) via apps. To pressure the Netherlands and other countries to vote in favour, it posted illegal, misleading ads on Twitter/X. At election time. This is unheard of:

Is het proportioneel om iedereen in Europa te voorzien van een EU scanner naar ongewenst materiaal, zonder uitzondering voor advocaten, journalisten, medici? En is die scanner *zelf* geen veiligheidsrisico tegenover spyware als Predator / Pegasus? RT=lief berthub.eu/articles/posts…

NEW: It turns out Heat Initiative, that brand new organization pressuring Apple to implement its abandoned 2021 proposal to scan everyone's photos for child abuse imagery, is part of a massive US political dark money network theintercept.com/2023/10/01/app…

De EU staat op het punt te beslissen of we willen veranderen in een surveillancestaat die alle online communicatie laat scannen door AI. Een machtig netwerk van Tech-lobbyisten duwt de EU in die richting. Dit moet echt veel meer aandacht krijgen. 1/2
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13 - Fort Dutch readers, have a read through this version of the investigation on De Groene Amsterdammer, and buy the print edition from tomorrow on. groene.nl/artikel/wie-he…

This follows previous excellent reporting that details the alliance between AI companies and law enforcement; and the vast amounts of lobbying money being splashed around to gain access to your private data. balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who…

If anyone thought that the EU legislation on content scanning would be limited, you can forget about that. Europol has demanded unfiltered access to all data produced by these systems. balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/eur…

Block ads on your networks now.

The system designed to follow us around the net with ads is now a blinking national security & human rights threat.

By Omer Benjakob
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