Sen. Wyden asks FTC to probe Neustar Security over sale of web histories to federal agencies, an unexpected outgrowth of Durham inquiry into FBI Trump investigation origins. Just up at The Post. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

My team met with @Twitter today. They told us that they're not going to retaliate against independent journalists or researchers who publish criticisms of the platform. Less than 12 hours later, multiple technology reporters have been suspended. What's the deal, Elon Musk?

Twitter changed its rules *yesterday* to ban tweeting about people’s real time location, banning accounts that tracked the private jets of Elon Musk and others. Tonight it banned reporters who publicized a new version of the jet tracker on Mastodon. nytimes.com/2022/12/15/tec…

NEW: Twitter's suspensions of prominent journalists were internally labeled "direction of Ella," referring to Ella Irwin, Twitter's Trust and Safety head who has carried out many of Musk's orders. washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/…

Holy Shit. Elon Musk just popped into a Twitter Spaces chat with a bunch of journalists. He was called out by journalist Drew Harrell, who he banned, for lying about posting links to his private information, then leaves almost immediately after being pressed. Here is the exchange

It costs tens of millions of dollars to develop and care for Signal every year. We are a 501c3 nonprofit and have no ad revenue or investors. We mean it when we say that we couldn’t do this without your support. Thank you. signal.org/donate/

A must-read on Elon Musk from Linette Lopez, one of the journalists that Musk has suspended from Twitter. She has covered his business activities with a critical eye for years. businessinsider.com/elon-musk-busi…

It’s okay because 20% of no revenue is €0

Subscription based but maybe worth to buy the whole The Economist issue. 2 articles: one about optical data-processing and this one about using photonic processing to accelerate #FullyHomomorphicEncryption economist.com/science-and-te…

Does this include how to lose $200 billion in 30 days?

There's a lot worth reading in the FB binding decision—probably the most succinct encapsulation of the EDPB's position is at the bottom of para 101 "The GDPR... treats personal data as a fundamental right... and not as a commodity data subjects can trade away through a contract"

Mursal Nabizada was a member of the Afghan parliament. She stayed in Afghanistan. She did not leave after the Taliban took over the country. MP Nabizada was shot dead in her home today. Afghanistan is hell on earth for women.

Another major case from the CNIL—Europe's Cookie Monster It appears games company VOODOO has been fined for using iOS's IDFV (analytics) despite getting a "reject" signal from the ATT popup Reminder that implementing ATT doesn't mean ePrivacy compliance cnil.fr/fr/jeux-mobile…

BREAKING: We just released hundreds of documents showing how Arizona created a nationwide surveillance program to track Americans’ personal money transfers. It's one of the largest government surveillance programs in recent history.

WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ Police in North Carolina shot a disabled man who was unarmed and complying with their orders. A SWAT team woke Jason Harley Kloepfer up and told him to get outside, then they shot him as soon as he opened the door.

BREAKING 🚨: An iceberg the size of London has broken off the Antarctic ice shelf

I wrote about the unhinged therapists making videos about their clients on TikTok, and how social media has smoothed over the ethical issues of certain professions turning their jobs into content newstatesman.com/social-media/2…

1/4 Not sure who this may help or bring comfort to, but I wanted to share this: In July 2018 outside a Sacramento, California, DMV office, I met Tyré Nichols. He had been waiting 6+ hours in miserable 98-degree heat...

Not a single student can do math at grade level in 53 Illinois schools. For reading, it’s 30 schools. Ralph Ellison International School spends >$24,000/student—State labels it “commendable.” No students are proficient in reading or math #schoolchoice wirepoints.org/not-a-single-s…