“Nothing can be done to make the Wi-Fi naming wit change his or her alarming network name, [Saginaw Township Police Chief Donald] Pussehl said: it’s speech that’s protected under the First Amendment.”
“The attacks work because of weaknesses built into the LTE standard itself. The most crucial weakness is a form of encryption that doesn’t protect the integrity of the data.”
“The Messages app does not even show users that files have been sent; many just find out after they get a response from the recipient of the random photos sent to them.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/7/2/17528076/samsung-phones-text-rcs-update-messages
“The consent form isn’t exactly clear that it would allow humans — and not just computers — to read your emails.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/2/17527972/gmail-app-developers-full-email-access
“This terrible menace to national security ‘was kidnapped by guerillas in El Salvador in 1990 and was coerced into undergoing weapons training and performing forced labor in the form of cooking, cleaning, and washing their clothes.’ Previously, the left-wing guerrillas ‘forced [her] to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig his own grave before being killed.'”
Read more: http://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/08/justice-department-rejects-salvadoran-wo
“Children are being needlessly ripped from homes at such an alarming rate that hundreds of parents in one state have gone so far as to create a counter-kidnapping organization to stop it.”
“While tearing children away from parents under a policy designed to keep asylum seekers from entering U.S. society, the Trump administration is forcing those same children to pledge their allegiance to the country that is actively trying to expel them.”
“Developmental trauma — trauma experienced in childhood — is much more difficult to heal than trauma suffered as an adult.”
Read more: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/immigrant-kids-are-suffering-trauma-will-last-years
“SiiP’s database will include samples from YouTube, Facebook, publicly recorded conversations, voice-over-internet-protocol recordings, and other sources where individuals might not realize that their voices are being turned into biometric voice prints.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/25/interpol-voice-identification-database/
“ICE came into existence in the early 2000s, when the federal government was reorganized and the Department of Homeland Security was created — so it’s a relatively new branch of the federal government. Its creation led to more deportations, which escalated during the Obama administration, especially during his first term.”
Read more: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/28/17514806/abolish-ice-protest-democrats-immigration