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'I want more': Republicans push for bigger IRS cuts amid fears of tax season chaos
1 week, 5 days ago

'I want more': Republicans push for bigger IRS cuts amid fears of tax season chaos

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — If you thought slashing 6,700 jobs at the IRS was a lot, you ain’t seen nothing yet. “I don't look at them as really a friend to anybody” In January 2023, after Republicans were swept back into power in the House of Representatives, one of the first measures Speaker Kevin McCarthy brought to the House floor stripped the …

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Elon Musk’s new role sparks controversy: What to know about his ‘Special Government Employee’ designation
1 month ago

Elon Musk’s new role sparks controversy: What to know about his ‘Special Government Employee’ designation

Live Mint  

Billionaire Elon Musk has been designated as a special government employee under the Department of Government Efficiency, a cost-cutting initiative launched by President Donald Trump to reduce federal spending. Conflict of interest concerns Senator Ron Wyden, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, raised concerns about Musk’s business ties to China in a January 31 letter to Treasury Secretary …

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Elon Musk’s DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources
1 month, 1 week ago

Elon Musk’s DOGE commission gains access to sensitive Treasury payment systems: AP sources

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Department of Government Efficiency, run by President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has gained access to sensitive Treasury data including Social Security and Medicare customer payment systems, according to two people familiar with the situation. The highest-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden of Oregon, on Friday sent a letter to …

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Ron Wyden Calls On Biden To Declassify Paul Manafort Report
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Ron Wyden Calls On Biden To Declassify Paul Manafort Report

Huff Post  

Sen. Ron Wyden on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to declassify information on the investigation of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman who served federal prison time as a result of Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia — and who’s now reportedly in talks to work with Trump again. During the 2016 presidential campaign, …

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Some states are trying to protect health care data so it isn’t used against people seeking abortions
1 year ago

Some states are trying to protect health care data so it isn’t used against people seeking abortions

Associated Press  

Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals’ reproductive health information private when a U.S. senator’s report last week offered a new jolt, describing how cellphone location data was used to send millions of anti-abortion ads to people who visited Planned Parenthood offices. Federal law bars medical providers from sharing health data without a patient’s consent …

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Column: How a legal loophole allows antiabortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: How a legal loophole allows antiabortion prosecutors to obtain women’s secret health data

LA Times  

Gen. Ken Paxton, a Republican, has threatened pharmacies with prosecution for shipping abortion pills through the mail. Since then, Wyden told me by email, “Republican states across the country have criminalized abortion.” That placed privacy “under threat like never before.” He said his goal is to urge “the executive branch to do everything in its power to stop far-right prosecutors …

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Apple now requires court orders in U.S. to access push notification data
1 year, 3 months ago

Apple now requires court orders in U.S. to access push notification data

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Apple is now requiring that U.S. law enforcement agencies obtain a court order for information on its customers’ push notifications, the alerts that iPhone apps send users that can reveal a lot about their online activity. The privacy-enhancing policy was added following last week’s disclosure by Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden that his office had received a tip last …

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Governments accused of using Apple and Google push notifications to spy on users
1 year, 3 months ago

Governments accused of using Apple and Google push notifications to spy on users

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In a letter to the Department of Justice, senator Ron Wyden warned unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone …

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Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
55 years, 2 months ago

Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records

Wired  

A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter WIRED obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services has for more than …

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US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’
55 years, 2 months ago

US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance ‘Loophole’

Wired  

An effort by United States lawmakers to prevent government agencies from domestically tracking citizens without a search warrant is facing opposition internally from one of its largest intelligence services. Republican and Democratic aides familiar with ongoing defense-spending negotiations in Congress say officials at the National Security Agency have approached lawmakers charged with its oversight about opposing an amendment that would …

New report claims US intelligence agencies are buying Americans’ personal data
1 year, 9 months ago

New report claims US intelligence agencies are buying Americans’ personal data

The Independent  

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First on CNN: New bipartisan bill in Senate could address TikTok security concerns without a ban
1 year, 9 months ago

First on CNN: New bipartisan bill in Senate could address TikTok security concerns without a ban

CNN  

CNN — Five US senators are set to reintroduce legislation Wednesday that would block companies including TikTok from transferring Americans’ personal data to countries such as China, as part of a proposed broadening of US export controls. “Our bipartisan bill would turn off the tap of data to unfriendly nations, stop TikTok from sending Americans’ personal information to China, and …

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US Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data
2 years ago

US Border Protection Is Finally Able to Check E-Passport Data

Wired  

The United States government is notorious for taking a “better late than never” approach to its tech rollouts. Following that tradition, US Customs and Border Protection confirmed today that after 16 years it has finally performed the necessary software upgrades to verify the cryptographic signatures stored in passport RFID chips. In early 2018, US senator Ron Wyden of Oregon and …

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Apple, Meta, and Discord All Handed User Data Over to Hackers. Now What?
55 years, 2 months ago

Apple, Meta, and Discord All Handed User Data Over to Hackers. Now What?

Slate  

Last week, Meta, Discord, and Apple admitted to a deeply bizarre and troubling mistake: They had all handed user data over to hackers who forged law enforcement emergency data requests via compromised email accounts. Emergency data requests are a way for law enforcement officials to obtain information without having to go through the standard legal processes to obtain a search …

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Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data
3 years, 1 month ago

Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said. Wyden and Heinrich said the program operated “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” There have long been concerns about what information the intelligence community collects domestically, driven in part …

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Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data
3 years, 1 month ago

Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The CIA has a secret, …

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Facebook Banned Trump 1 Year Ago. Social Media Hasn't Gotten Much Better.
3 years, 2 months ago

Facebook Banned Trump 1 Year Ago. Social Media Hasn't Gotten Much Better.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING So: Have they? Facebook “remains an extremist breeding ground,” offering militia groups unparalleled ability to spread anti-government propaganda, recruit new members and even run ads, according to a report by the Tech Transparency Project released last week. “The prevalence of these groups is startlingly similar to what we found a year ago.” In a separate study focused …

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CIA blasted for ‘woefully lax’ cybersecurity: Report
4 years, 8 months ago

CIA blasted for ‘woefully lax’ cybersecurity: Report

Al Jazeera  

CIA operatives shared administrative passwords and had access to historical data indefinitely, the report says. An internal CIA report dated October 2017 and released by Democratic US Senator Ron Wyden on Tuesday described security at the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence – the unit responsible for designing the tools – as “woefully lax”. “Most of our sensitive cyber weapons were …

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Hacks, Security Gaps And Oligarchs: The Business Of Voting Comes Under Scrutiny
6 years, 5 months ago

Hacks, Security Gaps And Oligarchs: The Business Of Voting Comes Under Scrutiny

NPR  

Hacks, Security Gaps And Oligarchs: The Business Of Voting Comes Under Scrutiny Enlarge this image toggle caption John Minchillo/AP John Minchillo/AP It's been a tough couple of years for the business of voting. Then there's the company that manufactures and services voter registration software in eight states that found itself hacked by Russian operatives leading up to the 2016 presidential …

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FCC is looking into a website flaw in the US that could have exposed mobile phone locations without user consent
6 years, 9 months ago

FCC is looking into a website flaw in the US that could have exposed mobile phone locations without user consent

Firstpost  

A security researcher said earlier this week that data from LocationSmart, a California-based tech firm, could have been used to track mobile consumers. The US Federal Communications Commission said on Friday it was referring reports that a website flaw could have allowed the location of mobile phone customers to be tracked to its enforcement bureau to investigate. A security researcher …

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Website flaw exposes real-time locations of US cellphones
6 years, 9 months ago

Website flaw exposes real-time locations of US cellphones

Associated Press  

A website flaw at a California company that gathers real-time data on cellular wireless devices could have allowed anyone to pinpoint the location of any AT&T, Verizon, Sprint or T-Mobile cellphone in the United States to within hundreds of yards, a security researcher said. “I could punch in any 10-digit phone number,” he added, “and I could get anyone’s location.” …

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Revealed: NSA tracks more than 5 billion cellphones daily
11 years, 3 months ago

Revealed: NSA tracks more than 5 billion cellphones daily

India TV News  

Washington: The National Security Agency tracks the locations of nearly 5 billion cellphones every day overseas, including those belonging to Americans abroad, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The NSA inadvertently gathers the location records of "tens of millions of Americans who travel abroad" annually, along with the billions of other records it collects by tapping into worldwide mobile network cables, …

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US intelligence chief sorry for ‘erroneous’ answer
11 years, 8 months ago

US intelligence chief sorry for ‘erroneous’ answer

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence James Clapper apologized for telling Congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency does not collect data on millions of Americans, a response he now says was “clearly erroneous.” Clapper apologized in a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein. Leaks by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden have revealed the NSA’s …

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US officials long denied massive data trawling
11 years, 9 months ago

US officials long denied massive data trawling

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — For years, top officials of the Bush and Obama administrations dismissed fears about secret government data-mining by reassuring Congress that there were no secret nets trawling for Americans’ phone and Internet records. During a March 2006 appearance at the City Club of Cleveland, Bush described the NSA effort only as “a program that will enable us to listen …

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