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DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats

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A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.

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DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

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Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.

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Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

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Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

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The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public.

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For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

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MSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.

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The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

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A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.

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San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

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The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

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Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

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Since WIRED reported on Meta’s NameTag face recognition system, company executives have made confusing and conflicting remarks about its very existence.

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A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

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The SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online.

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AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

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Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.

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