privacy
The Big Story
3 Teens Almost Got Away With Murder. Then Police Found Their Google Searches
By Raksha Vasudevan
Security
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
By Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Gear
A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them
By Scharon Harding, Ars Technica
Security
ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador
By Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman
Security
US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car
By Caroline Haskins
Security
Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage
By Lily Hay Newman
Security
US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car
By Caroline Haskins
Security
Signal Clone Used by Mike Waltz Pauses Service After Reports It Got Hacked
By Lily Hay Newman
Security
Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show
By Dell Cameron
Security
Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border
By Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Katie Drummond
Politics
Here’s All the Health and Human Services Data DOGE Has Access To
By Matt Giles, Leah Feiger, Zoë Schiffer, and Caroline Haskins
Security
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
By Caroline Haskins