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The New Oil

#China, #Russia, #Iran, and #NorthKorea Intelligence Sharing

schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea Intelligence Sharing - Schneier on SecurityFormer CISA Director Jen Easterly writes about a new international intelligence sharing co-op: Historically, China, Russia, Iran & North Korea have cooperated to some extent on military and intelligence matters, but differences in language, culture, politics & technological sophistication have hindered deeper collaboration, including in cyber. Shifting geopolitical dynamics, however, could drive these states toward a more formalized intell-sharing partnership. Such a “Four Eyes” alliance would be motivated by common adversaries and strategic interests, including an enhanced capacity to resist economic sanctions and support proxy conflicts...
#politics#surveillance#privacy
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Lorraine C. 🇨🇦

#shadowdragon#usa #canada #uspol #cdnpoli #ice #surveillance #Amazon #AppleMusic #Facebook, #Github #GoFundMe #LinkedIn #Reddit #TikTok #Venmo #uspol #canada

A contractor ICE and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual’s publicly available data from social networks,apps, & services across the web

🟥ie #Bluesky, OnlyFans, #Meta platforms, according to a leaked list
🟥names more than 200 sites

404media.co/the-200-sites-an-i

404 Media · The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring404 Media has obtained the list of sites and services that ICE contractor ShadowDragon pulls data from. ShadowDragon sources data from all over the web and lets government analysts easily search it and draw connections between people.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The Trump administration may soon demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the federal agency that oversees legal migration, proposed the new policy in the Federal Register this week — calling this information “necessary for a rigorous vetting and screening” of all people applying for “immigration-related benefits.”

In its Federal Register notice, USCIS said the proposed social media surveillance policy is needed to comply with President Trump’s “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats” executive order, issued on his first day in office. That order requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other government agencies to “identify all resources that may be used to ensure that all aliens seeking admission to the United States, or who are already in the United States, are vetted and screened to the maximum degree possible.”"

theverge.com/policy/624945/tru

Illustration of the seal for the US Department of Homeland Security on a red and tan background.
The Verge · The Trump administration wants to review all prospective citizens’ social media accountsBy Gaby Del Valle
#USA#Trump#USCIS
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Skyper 💻🎧☕📖

"Une ancienne cadre accuse Facebook d’avoir préparé un « système de censure » pour amadouer la Chine en 2015"

lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2025

"Une ancienne cadre de Facebook reproche à l’entreprise d’avoir multiplié, entre 2015 et 2017, les concessions à la Chine. Selon elle, la société serait même allée jusqu’à construire un prototype de service de suppression automatique de messages, dans l’espoir de pouvoir pénétrer le marché chinois."

Le Monde · Une ancienne cadre accuse Facebook d’avoir préparé un « système de censure » pour amadouer la Chine en 2015By Le Monde
#GAFAM#Facebook#Meta
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The U.K. government appears to have quietly scrubbed encryption advice from government web pages, just weeks after demanding backdoor access to encrypted data stored on Apple’s cloud storage service, iCloud.

The change was spotted by security expert Alec Muffett, who wrote in a blog post on Wednesday that the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is no longer recommending that high-risk individuals use encryption to protect their sensitive information.

The NCSC in October published a document titled “Cybersecurity tips for barristers, solicitors & legal professionals,” that advised the use of encryption tools such as Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP).

ADP allows users to turn on end-to-end encryption for their iCloud backups, effectively making it impossible for anyone, including Apple and government authorities, to view data stored on iCloud."

techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/uk-q

TechCrunch · UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites | TechCrunchThe UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands
#UK#CyberSecurity#Encryption
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Dan Phiffer

“According to one source, Unit 8200’s chatbot has been trained on 100 billion words of Arabic obtained in part through Israel’s large-scale surveillance of Palestinians under the rule of its military.”

This got me thinking about NSA mass surveillance and Salt Typhoon. What kind of language models are being trained on our private cleartext comms?

972mag.com/israeli-intelligenc
#Surveillance #Palestine #AI

+972 Magazine · Israel is building a ChatGPT-like tool weaponizing surveillance of PalestiniansThe Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest.
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katzenberger 🇺🇦

Excellent reporting by #972Magazine:

#Israel is training their new, giant "#AI" model on mass recordings of conversations originating from #surveillance of the #WestBank.

Remember: What gets "tested" on #Palestinians will be presented at fairs (blood stains removed, of course), bought by your governments, and get used against you.

»“Spoken Arabic is data that is [hardly] available on the internet,” the source explained. […]

Israeli intelligence sources emphasized that in the West Bank, the most pressing issue is not necessarily the accuracy of these models, but rather the vast scope of arrests they enable. […]

Several sources stated that a vague or general “suspicion” is often enough to justify placing Palestinians in administrative detention — an extendable prison sentence of six months without charge or trial, on the basis of undisclosed “evidence.”«

972mag.com/israeli-intelligenc

+972 Magazine · Israel is building a ChatGPT-like tool weaponizing surveillance of PalestiniansThe Israeli army is developing an AI language model using millions of intercepted conversations between Palestinians, accelerating incrimination and arrest.
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition, surveillance camera networks, and cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out CSS around the world.

CSS (also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower."

eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular SpyingAt EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition, surveillance camera networks, and cell-...
#USA#Surveillance#Cellphones
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