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Secret Service Paid to Get Americans' Location Data Without a Warrant, Documents Show
https://gizmodo.com/secret-service-bought-access-to-americans-location-data-1844752501

Police Use of Facial Recognition Cameras Is Ruled Unlawful
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/889en4/police-facial-recognition-cameras-unlawful-wales

A mysterious group has hijacked Tor exit nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-mysterious-group-has-hijacked-tor-exit-nodes-to-perform-ssl-stripping-attacks/

Google's Secret Home Security Superpower: Your Smart Speaker With Its Always-On Mics - Google Speakers Are Listening To More Than Just Voice Commands. Using Them For Home Security Could Supercharge Google's $450 Million ADT Deal
https://www.protocol.com/google-smart-speaker-alarm-adt

Over 1,100 Policing Agencies in the U.S. Have Bought Drones Capable of Recording
https://truthout.org/articles/police-drones-dont-just-watch-protests-they-record-them-with-little-oversight/

#OnePlus is poisoning its phones with Facebook bloatware
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/08/05/oneplus-is-poisoning-its-phones-with-facebook-bloatware/

Deux agents de la DGSE arrêtés pour un projet de meurtre
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/deux-agents-de-la-dgse-arretes-pour-un-projet-de-meurtre-03-08-2020-8362923.php

A DHS intelligence report showed the department had collected and analyzed messages between Portland protesters, a new report says
https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-report-showed-dhs-collected-protester-messages-wapo-2020-7

Ramón Grosfoguel: “Catalans are in a colonial situation”
https://english.vilaweb.cat/noticies/ramon-grosfoguel-catalans-are-in-a-colonial-situation/

New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4,000 unsecured databases
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-meow-attack-has-deleted-almost-4-000-unsecured-databases/

‘Instagram can hurt us’: Mark Zuckerberg emails outline plan to neutralize competitors
https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/29/21345723/facebook-instagram-documents-emails-mark-zuckerberg-kevin-systrom-hearing

China Is What Orwell Feared: Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/china-ai-surveillance/614197/

German police can access any WhatsApp message without any malware
https://androidrookies.com/german-police-can-access-any-whatsapp-message-without-any-malware/

The FBI is Tracking Our Faces in Secret. We’re Suing. - There can be no accountability if there is no transparency
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/the-fbi-is-tracking-our-faces-in-secret-were-suing/

James Webb Space Telescope to launch in October 2021
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/James_Webb_Space_Telescope_to_launch_in_October_2021

Police in Germany have too much access to personal online data, top court says
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-police-personal-data/a-54209653