House Votes to Extend—and Expand—a Major US Spy Program

A controversial US wiretap program days from expiration cleared a significant hurdle on its technique to being reauthorized. After months of delays, false begins, and interventions by lawmakers working to protect and broaden the US intelligence neighborhood’s spy powers, the Home of Representatives voted on Friday to increase Part 702 of the International Intelligence Surveillance … Read more

Sinking Section 702 Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

A invoice launched by senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee to reauthorize the Part 702 surveillance program is the fifth launched within the US Congress this winter. The authority is threatening to run out in a month, disrupting a worldwide wiretapping program stated to tell a 3rd of articles within the President’s Every day Briefing—a … Read more

The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

Donald Trump seems to dream of being an American authoritarian ought to he return to workplace. The previous US president, who on Tuesday secured sufficient delegates to win the 2024 Republican nomination, plans to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants and home scores of them in giant camps. He wants to invoke the Riot … Read more

This Senator Wants to Know What Meta and TikTok Are Doing About Parent-Run Girl Influencer Accounts

In January, the CEOs of X, TikTok, Meta, Snap, and Discord testified in entrance of a congressional committee about little one exploitation on their platforms. “Mr. Zuckerberg, you and the businesses earlier than us, I do know you don’t imply it to be so, however you may have blood in your arms,” Senator Lindsey Graham … Read more

Europe’s Digital Markets Act Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech

Residents of the European Union stay in an web constructed and dominated by international powers. Most individuals within the EU use an American search engine, store on an American ecommerce web site, thumb American telephones, and scroll via American social media feeds. That reality has triggered rising alarm within the corridors of Brussels, because the … Read more