French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of #Trump found
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained
#Substack rival #Ghost is now connected to the #fediverse
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/substack-rival-ghost-is-now-connected-to-the-fediverse/
US Dist Court of Maryland Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander ruled that #DOGE was granted unusual access to non-anonymized #SocialSecurity data & could not identify any basis for that degree of access.
She wants access limited, installed software removed & data taken out of #SSA destroyed.
#law #USpol #Trump #Musk #InfoSec #privacy
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.49.0.pdf
US teachers’ union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members
#FacialRecognition Company #Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database
How to deal with fingerprinting
https://adguard.com/en/blog/techtok-6-how-o-deal-with-fingerprinting.html
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchangeNew Privacy Guides article 
by @jonah :
With the political changes
happening in the United States right now,
You might be seeking Europe-based tech alternatives to trust your data with.
Moreover, if you are an organization dealing with data from Europeans, it could be wise to start the move for GDPR compliance now, in the eventuality the EU–US Data Privacy Framework it relies on were to change...
Whatever the reason,
you can check some of Privacy Guides' recommendations in this excellent article-list by Jonah: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
Criminals are using a virtual hard disk image file to host and distribute dangerous malware
Newly discovered phishing campaign utilizes a unique file type to spread
#FTC removes posts critical of #BigTech from its website
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/18/ftc-removes-posts-critical-of-big-tech-from-its-website/
Governments say they want sovereignty, yet they keep buying from #Microsoft #Google and #AWS.
Read the full article 
Privacy group files complaint after ChatGPT invents "defamatory" child murder story.
Privacy group Noyb has filed a complaint today against OpenAI for “allowing” its model to invent a "defamatory" child murder story about a Norwegian user.
"By knowingly allowing ChatGPT to produce defamatory results, the company clearly violates the GDPR’s principle of data accuracy," Noyb said.
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
New docs obtained by #404Media reveal that #ClearviewAI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records & 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states from an #intelligence firm. The contract further describes the records as including current & former home addresses, dates of birth, arrest photos, social security & cell phone numbers, & email addresses.
For years, #ClearviewAI has collected billions of photos from #socialmedia websites including Facebook, LinkedIn & others & sold access to its #FacialRecognition tool to law enforcement. The collection & sale of user-generated photos by a private #surveillance company to #police w/o that person’s knowledge or consent sparked international outcry when it was first revealed by the NYT in 2020.
#law #privacy #tech #InfoSec #Clearview
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html
