India's CERT-In Confirms AI Agents Broke Into Live Systems
India's CERT-In says AI evaluation agents reached live Indian systems via exposed credentials. None of the affected organizations detected it.
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ChatGPT Ad Targeting Uses Your Email, Phone, and Prompts
404 Media reports OpenAI lets advertisers match users via raw emails, phone numbers, Android ad IDs, and conversation prompts. How to opt out.
Federal Judge Rules Flock ALPR Search Unconstitutional
A federal judge ruled a Flock ALPR search unconstitutional. Two new bills in Congress aim to ban or restrict the cameras at the federal level.
VIDIZMO Is Pitching Cops Facial Recognition on Flock Footage
A small vendor pitched Tennessee police on facial recognition across Flock camera data. Flock says it will not add facial recognition to its devices.
Border AI towers watched 1,050 deaths and never raised an alarm
MIT Tech Review's 15-month investigation finds Anduril, RVSS, and Elbit surveillance towers failed to catch people dying within range of their cameras.
Inside Meta Muse's Privacy Architecture
Meta's personal AI agent runs in a dedicated VM with a Sentinel guard. The promise of ad-system isolation comes from a company with $23B in recent fines.
Judge Rules Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist Unconstitutional
A federal judge said the DOD's 'supply chain risk' label was punishment for Anthropic's public refusal to allow mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.
Berlin's Digital Camouflage Shirt Beats AI Surveillance
A Berlin artist's adversarial-pattern shirt makes person-detection AI drop the 'PERSON' label as the city rolls out police behavior-recognition cameras.
Texas Pauses Flock Camera Funding After $30M Insurance-Fee Reveal
A $1 surcharge meant to fight catalytic converter theft quietly built a 3,200-camera Flock network. Abbott halted state funding after a Tribune expose.
Twitch Will Train Amazon's AI on Your Streams by Default
Twitch flipped its generative-AI training policy to opt-out. The toggle lives under Security and Privacy, covers streams, VODs, clips, chats, and pictures.
ICE's New LexisNexis Deal Ties AI Identity Inference to Palantir
ICE's $6.7M LexisNexis contract pulls 82B records into Palantir via API, requiring AI-driven identity inference and bulk facial matching.
ICE Buys $125M of Thomson Reuters CLEAR to Hunt 'Voter Fraud'
ICE's five-year, $25M/year CLEAR contract pulls in names, SSNs, ethnicity, social-media posts and geolocation for 'voter fraud' enforcement.
LAPD ALPR Audit: 161 False Stolen-Car Stops in 60 Days
LAPD OIG audit of Aug-Sep 2025 found 161 innocent drivers stopped after ALPR false alerts from 210.5M plate reads. LAPD let its Flock contract expire.
Meta's Wearable Patent Would Record Bystanders by Design
A Meta patent published July 2 describes a wearable that records all-day audio, infers mood from sighs and laughter, and includes bystanders by design.
EU Council Quietly Revives Chat Control 1.0 Messenger Scanning
EU Council voted an identical copy of the expired April Chat Control regulation back into law via written procedure, ahead of the summer recess vote.
Alibaba Bars Claude Code Over Backdoor Allegations
Alibaba banned Claude Code effective July 10, citing embedded backdoors. The ban lands days after Anthropic accused three Chinese labs of distilling Claude.
Pegasus Hit the EU Lawmaker Investigating Pegasus
Citizen Lab finds former PEGA committee member Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus twice while the EU Parliament was investigating that very spyware.
Claude Mythos: The AI That Hacks Better Than Humans
Anthropic built an AI that finds zero-days autonomously. The Pentagon wants it. Anthropic said no to surveillance. Now it's a geopolitical crisis.
Google Hands the Pentagon Its Entire AI Stack for Classified Work — 600 Employees Said Don't
Google signed a deal letting the DoD use Gemini for 'any lawful purpose' on classified networks, one day after hundreds of employees including DeepMind leaders demanded the opposite.
Meta Is Recording Every Keystroke Its Employees Make to Train AI Agents
Meta's Model Capability Initiative captures mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots from employee computers. The goal: build AI agents that can replace the workers generating the training data.
ChatGPT Now Collects 70% More Data, Claude Wants Your Passport, and GitHub Trains on Your Code
Surfshark's 2026 report reveals ChatGPT's data appetite has exploded, Anthropic rolls out government ID checks, and GitHub's Copilot starts training on your code April 24.
Your AI Tools Don't Take You Seriously — and They're Watching Everything
Microsoft admits Copilot is 'entertainment only,' LinkedIn scans 6,000 browser extensions without telling you, and Google turned on Gemini across 130 million accounts without consent.
AI Chatbots Collect More Data Than Ever, and Government Wants It
ChatGPT tracks 70% more data types than last year; Meta AI harvests 95% of categories. FISA 702 expires April 20, with the data broker loophole in the balance.
168 Days in Jail Because an Algorithm Said So
A Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months jailed after Clearview AI matched her to a fraud suspect 1,200 miles away. She'd never been to North Dakota.