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Meet the tracking companies that follow you around the internet

Datawrapper – “Considering the cookie consent banners that have come to grace our screens on a daily basis, it might not come as a surprise that companies are interested in extracting data from your online activities, and that browsing the internet is not exactly a private affair. Still, it is hard to grasp how this… Continue Reading

Big Brother Becomes Little Brother

Ken Klippenstein – Corporations are the new nation state, U.S. intelligence admits – Envious of the power and wealth of corporate America, the head of U.S. intelligence has issued a new directive calling on the spy agencies to “routinize”  and “expand” their partnerships with private companies. Agencies are even authorized to incur “risk” in these… Continue Reading

ReproductiveRights.Gov Vanished, So We Brought It Back

Angela Levine – “The day after President Donald Trump began his second term, people noticed that they could no longer access a .gov web page outlining women’s rights to abortion and contraception under US law. The Biden administration created the web page, reproductiverights.gov, after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, ending… Continue Reading

Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups

Joe Katz‬ ‪@joekatz45.bsky.social‬ – Local Public-Facing Immigrant Support/Advocacy Groups – Google Sheet Please note all organizations listed on this spreadsheet have some public-facing presence. Any who would like to be removed please contact [email protected]. This list is dynamic and growing. If you have additions, edits, criticisms, suggestions, etc. please contact [email protected] . Last Update 1/25/25… Continue Reading

Marginalia Search

Marginalia Search – Explore the Web your way – Search: All. Blogs, Academia, Vintage, Plain Text, Wikis, Forums, Recipes, Search in Title, Recent Results, Remove Javascript, Reduce Adtech. Prioritizes non-commercial content Tools for both search and discovery Find lost old websites Open Source Custom index and crawler software Simple technology — no AI or cloud… Continue Reading

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 26, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex… Continue Reading

More Americans Than Ever Are Living in Wildfire Areas. L.A. Is No Exception

“The New York Times has created a series of maps visualizing wildfire and smoke risk for the different parts of Los Angeles County [gift article], where several devastating wildfires have been ravaging since early January. The newspaper used wildfire risk scores data from CoreLogic, a California-based business and property analytics company, and spatial data from… Continue Reading

Explaining the Brookings Regulatory Tracker

“The Brookings Center on Regulations and Markets Regulatory Tracker (“Reg Tracker”) is a tool that tracks and provides insights into important regulatory actions by the federal government. Originally launched in October 2017, the Reg Tracker monitors a curated selection of executive agency rules, guidance, and policy introductions or revocations, as well as executive actions like… Continue Reading

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots

404 Media – “A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be… Continue Reading

PowerSchool hacker claims they stole data of 62 million students

Bleeping Computer: “The hacker who breached education tech giant PowerSchool claimed in an extortion demand that they stole the personal data of 62.4 million students and 9.5 million teachers. PowerSchool is a cloud-based software solutions provider for K-12 schools and districts that provides tools for enrollment, communication, attendance, staff management, learning systems, analytics, and finance.… Continue Reading

DOGE gets an extreme makeover

Musk Watch:  The Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was established on Monday by Trump, with Musk receiving a White House email address and office space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The executive order states that DOGE will replace the US Digital Service, an official part of the Executive Office of the President. By… Continue Reading