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Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

Double Exposure

Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People’s Faces

The people-search tool ClarityCheck says its reverse image search service is “private and secure”—but it left a database containing more than 9 million image files exposed.

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flocking Hell

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

The Big Interview

Can AI Coexist With Privacy? Proton’s Andy Yen Says It Will Have To

Andy Greenberg

New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

Privacy

New York City Lawmakers Push to ‘Ban the Scan’ at MSG

Kate Taylor

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

Eye Spy

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

Yulia Almazova

Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed

Security Roundup

Flock’s Plans for Rideshare Dashcams and Coaching Police, Revealed

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Return to Sender

Sensitive Info Goes Into ‘No Reply’ Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

Matt Burgess

DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats

Signal Problems

DHS Wants Protesters’ Signal Group Chats

Maddy Varner

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Say Cheese

DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad

Dell Cameron and Maddy Varner

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Promptly Problematic

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Matt Burgess

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

Battle ‘Bots.txt

Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results

Maddy Varner

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

Private Party

For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went Dark

Noah Shachtman

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

Discovery Mode

The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

Dell Cameron

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

Stripped Out

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores

Matt Burgess

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Fact Check

Here’s the Truth About Whether Meta’s NameTag Face Recognition Tech ‘Exists’

Andrew Couts

Watchful Eye

A Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban Surveillance

Andy Greenberg and Dhruv Mehrotra

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Security Roundup

AI Found a Root Bug in Linux That Everyone Missed for 15 Years

Dell Cameron and Lily Hay Newman

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Chat Control’s Back

A Majority of European Lawmakers Voted Against Letting Big Tech Read Our Messages. They’re Going to Anyway

Isabella Ward

Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Security Roundup

Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Don't Look Up

Top Google Security Staff Warn Search Data Could Be Hacked if EU Rules Change

Matt Burgess

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Security Roundup

LastPass Users Had Their Data Stolen—Again

Lily Hay Newman

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Burn Notice

The Pentagon Is Looking Into the Dialog Data Exposure for Unmasking National Security Officials

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Minority Report

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

Matt Burgess and Mark Wilding