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Investigative reporter @business . Email: ryan @rjgallagher .co.uk Signal/WhatsApp: +44 737-678-6842

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Ryan Gallagher
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How to contact me: • Signal/WhatsApp: +447376786842 • Email: ryan @rjgallagher .co.uk • SecureDrop: • PGP: • Snail mail: 133 Fountainbridge, Floor 7, Edinburgh, EH3 9QG All whistleblowers, sources, tips welcome. No PR pitches.
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Putin reportedly has a $97 million luxury yacht called "Graceful". A group of Anonymous hackers on Saturday figured out a way to mess with maritime traffic data & made it look like the yacht had crashed into Ukraine's Snake Island, then changed its destination to "hell":
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There's not been enough scrutiny of the fact that Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has been propped up with cash from Qatar & Saudi Arabia
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They changed the yacht's destination to "hell", "anonymous" & "anonleaks" & also changed its call sign to "FCKPTN". They said they wanted to put the yacht in the scope of sanction packages as well as "put a little smile on some faces for a short period in these dark times"
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The hackers -- who are affiliated with an Anonymous offshoot called @theanonleaks -- told me they did it by manipulating the maritime "Automatic Identification System," which is used to track ship locations.
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New: Elon Musk's lawyer has sought to reassure Twitter employees they won't go to jail if the company is found in violation of a Federal Trade Commission decree that outlines steps Twitter must take to protect users’ personal data. With @KurtWagner8
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For all the Americans who keep tweeting that if only British people carried guns & had a 2nd amendment then we'd be safe.
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More died from gun violence in US in 2015 alone (13,400) than have died in 45+ yrs from terrorism across Western Europe (6,411; 1970-2016).
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I put together a short timeline comparing WikiLeaks' public statements on Trump with its leaked private comments on him. Useful for anybody trying to keep track of all the duplicity that's going on.
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The breach highlights how vulnerable AIS is to manipulation. There have been many similar cases in recent years of people faking the locations of ships by meddling with AIS data; it's become a theatre of information warfare.
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Also: We're told Musk laid off an entire information security team at Twitter that oversaw sharing of user data with advertisers & research partners, a move that triggered internal concerns about vulnerability to security threats & potential violations of FTC rules.
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Revealing eight buildings across the US, hidden in plain sight, that documents & sources indicate are central to one of NSA's largest & most controversial internet surveillance programs:
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The yacht linked to Putin was reportedly getting repaired in Hamburg, Germany, but moved to Kaliningrad, Russia in early Feb prior to the Ukraine invasion. It has an indoor pool, a spa, helideck, a dancefloor, gym & bar. Pics from inside it in this piece:
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NEW: Senior Google scientist resigns over plan to launch censored search engine in China. "I view our intent to capitulate to censorship & surveillance demands in exchange for access to the Chinese market as a forfeiture of our values," he says:
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Revealed: Google is planning to launch a censored search engine in China that will blacklist websites & search terms about human rights, democracy, political opposition, academic studies, religion, & peaceful protest:
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Credit Suisse asks hedge funds & other investors to destroy documents relating to its richest clients’ yachts & private jets, in attempt to stop info leaking about bank unit that made loans to oligarchs who were later sanctioned:
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NEW: Google built a prototype of a censored search engine for China that links users’ searches to their phone numbers, making it easier for Chinese authorities to monitor people’s queries: #Dragonfly
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A study last year in the Applied Sciences journal found that AIS was vulnerable to "unauthorized manipulations" & it noted the messages are not encrypted or authenticated, making it easy to tamper with them.
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New: Belarus hacktivist group @cpartisans staged a new cyberattack on the country's train network today in effort to disrupt Russian troop movements into Ukraine. Group damaged railway control system, claims trains were halted in Minsk, Orsha & Osipovichi
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The move to scrap the six-person information security team was combined with layoffs of at least a dozen other employees working on security, privacy & compliance issues at the company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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NSA's targets included the World Bank, IMF, Bank of Japan, European Union, UN, Germany, France, Italy, Brazil ...
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If WikiLeaks suddenly published huge Trump email dump it'd be amazing to watch wave of cognitive dissonance wash over Hannity & Trump base.
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“The people at Twitter doing the checks on that access are simply not there anymore,” one of the people said, adding that the privacy & security of user data has been put at risk as a result.
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The laid off information security team was focused on third-party risk management & was responsible for providing security assurances to advertisers that work with Twitter & share data with the company.
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The team also monitored Twitter’s sharing of user data with dozens of commercial partners & research orgs, some of whom have access to an interface that can be used to view non-public info about Twitter users, such as location data, IP addresses & unique device identifiers.
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NEW: Google bosses have suppressed an explosive memo circulating inside the company revealing its censored China search plan. The memo said the search system would store users' location data & share their search records "unilaterally" w/ a Chinese company:
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Electric vehicle charging stations in Russia hacked, disabled, & made to display anti-Putin messages; Ukrainian company that provided parts for the chargers allegedly exploited backdoor in control systems.
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US photo company @Shutterstock cooperating with China censorship, blacklists searches for images associated with Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, the Taiwan flag, the term "dictator". Employees protesting, accuse bosses of "enabling injustices":
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These latest developments come after a chaotic week at Twitter that has seen the resignations of several senior executives, including the Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Privacy Officer & Chief Compliance Officer. Full story:
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NEW: An American organization founded by Google & IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian government secretly monitor the phone & internet activity of 200 million people, documents & sources reveal:
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NEW: Google censored China search plan "effectively ended" after major internal dispute. Secret data analysis operation integral to the project shut down after @theintercept exposed it & the company's furious privacy team confronted executives: #Dragonfly
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New: I spoke with some of the hackers & dissidents waging a covert war of sabotage against the authoritarian regimes of Belarus's Lukashenko & Russia's Putin. They are setting a new model for revolutionary groups. Here's their story:
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More died from gun violence in US in 2015 alone (13,400) than have died in 45+ yrs from terrorism across Western Europe (6,411; 1970-2016).
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The buildings are in: Atlanta Chicago Dallas LA NYC San Francisco Seattle DC
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NEW: Google executives shut out privacy & security teams from key meetings on China censored search project & did not address human rights concerns that were repeatedly raised internally dating back nearly two years: #Dragonfly
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Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda & disinformation denying human rights violations in Xinjiang, where an estimated one million ethnic minority Uighurs have been held in internment camps.
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Privately, 8 Nov 2016: WikiLeaks advises @DonaldJTrumpJr that @realDonaldTrump shouldn't concede the election if he loses & instead should blame "rigging" and "media corruption" to "keep his base alive."
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New: I wrote about the terrifying rise of "zero click" hacks - a method of breaking into a smartphone or computer even if its user doesn’t open a malicious link or attachment.
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Twitter was prev compromised by Saudi spies who used internal data to out dissidents & have them jailed. Surprising any new owner of Twitter - especially one professing to be a free-speech absolutist - would want Saudi influence anywhere near the platform
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Never realised rule of law had a terrorism exemption
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NEW: We got a leaked transcript of Google's search engine chief Ben Gomes discussing the company's censored China search engine plan, "Dragonfly." It exposes a stark contrast between Google's public & private statements about the secretive project:
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@realDonaldTrump Global temperature change 1850 - 2018
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Great new suspected Banksy piece on a wall in Cheltenham, the home of UK spy agency GCHQ: http://t.co/MBb8FUWWMN http://t.co/THyyg0icZA
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The novel way police in Italy hacked suspects' phones: 1) Get cell network to turn off suspect's data service, 2) Send suspect a text telling them to use WiFi to download an app from the Play Store to fix the issue, 3) use that app to deliver spyware. 😱
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Our story shows how NSA used AT&T's infrastructure to tap into communications processed by other companies. Data from the likes of Sprint, Cogent, Level 3, Telia, Tata, Telecom Italia, & Deutsche Telekom is sent across AT&T's networks as part of so-called "peering" exchanges.
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Big decision from Europe's top human rights court today finding that UK's secret "bulk surveillance" system of monitoring calls & emails, exposed by @Snowden , violated privacy & freedom of expression rights
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Grand Chamber judgment Big Brother Watch and Others v. the United Kingdom - UK surveillance regime: some aspects contrary to the Convention #ECHR #CEDH #ECHRpress
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Amazing photos showing scale of protests in Hong Kong over new extradition law that it's feared will allow China to target political opponents. Organisers estimate more than one million attended, making this one of the largest protests in HK history.
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The NSA monitors what it calls "peering circuits" inside the eight buildings, which one former AT&T technician said "are liable to carry everybody’s [internet] traffic at one point or another during the day, or the week, or the year.”
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Privately, on 16 Dec 2016: WikiLeaks asks @DonaldJTrumpJr to get @realDonaldTrump to pressure Australia to "appoint Assange ambassador to DC" because he is a "really smart tough guy."
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Canada's former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration weighs in on Sandvine's work in Belarus ⬇️
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@Sandvine @FP_Champagne @JustinTrudeau Have you no conscience? How do you live with yourselves, knowing you’ve helped a dictator thwart democracy, suppress basic freedoms? Export controls & basic business ethics should have prevented any sale of such services. #StandWithBelarus
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If you are a current or former employee of Sandvine & would like to talk confidentially about the company's work in Belarus & other countries where there are concerns about human rights violations, I would like to hear from you:
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How to contact me: • Signal/WhatsApp: +447376786842 • Email: ryan @rjgallagher .co.uk • SecureDrop: • PGP: • Snail mail: 133 Fountainbridge, Floor 7, Edinburgh, EH3 9QG All whistleblowers, sources, tips welcome. No PR pitches.
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In 2003, the agency launched an internet surveillance initiative under FAIRVIEW & had within a few months swept up some 400 billion records about people’s online communications. AT&T sent millions of emails weekly to an NSA “keyword selection system.”
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UK's @metpoliceuk has shelved its years-long investigation into journalists who reported on secret documents from @Snowden ; told me in recent FOIA response that the probe, named Operation Curable, is now "inactive":
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NEW: Google's former head of free expression issues in Asia is speaking out about the company's China censored search plan. “This is just a really bad idea, a stupid, stupid move,” he told me in a wide-ranging interview:
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New: US company @Sandvine says it'll no longer sell its technology to Belarus, has terminated an agreement w/ the country. We recently revealed Sandvine sold equipment to Belarus that the government was using to censor the internet amid nationwide protests
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Privately, 19 Nov 2015: WikiLeaks says "we believe it would be much better for GOP to win." Calls Clinton, "well connected, sadistic sociopath."
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10. So I'd treat the Obama-GCHQ accusation w/ skepticism. Frankly I'm stunned @PressSec repeated it.
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The eight buildings are involved in an NSA program called FAIRVIEW, which has collected communications from AT&T's networks since 1985.
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New: I spoke to Ukrainians who say they have formed a makeshift "cyberwar" unit & are working with Ukraine's government to stage hacks on Russian officials & websites amid the ongoing invasion:
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Privately, 3 Oct 2016: WikiLeaks asks @DonaldJTrumpJr to "push" a dubiously sourced story from a conservative website called "True Pundit" alleging Hillary Clinton wanted to kill Assange with a drone.
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Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3
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“It’s eye-opening & ominous the extent to which this is happening right here on American soil,” said the Brennan Center's @LizaGoitein . “It puts a face on surveillance that we could never think of before in terms of actual buildings...in our own cities, in our own backyards.”
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BREAKING: US company @Sandvine announces it has terminated its agreement with Belarus, will no longer sell its products there, following our @business investigation that revealed its tech was being used to censor the country's internet. More to follow.
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*Publicly*, 10 Nov 2016 (two days after Trump won election): WikiLeaks claims in a Reddit AMA that "allegations that we have colluded with Trump, or any other candidate for that matter...are just groundless and false."
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New: Tech from US company @Sandvine used to censor the internet in more than a dozen countries w/ a record of political repression. We've uncovered Sandvine's deals w/ likes of Algeria, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, UAE & Uzbekistan:
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Anti-whistleblower clause in #IPBill
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Great interactive map of undersea phone/internet cables GCHQ's spying on, based on Snowden dox http://t.co/Ot3k2lpyuY http://t.co/J0CAIAj544
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Finally some honesty out of Google on China. Chairman of parent company Alphabet admits: "Anybody who does business in China compromises some of their core values" ... "If you store data in the country it can be gotten at by the Chinese authorities."
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A few weeks ago Hacking Team's co-founder joked in emails about how bad a leak would be for his company. Oh dear... http://t.co/AIdOJK3ArG
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A source familiar w/ the plans is raising concerns about the censored search platform, saying Google is "collaborating in the oppression of [China's] people." Amnesty International has condenmed the project, calling it "a big disaster for the information age."
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(The @DonaldJTrumpJr private messages were first disclosed in Nov 2017. The other referenced private messages were first disclosed in Feb 2018. This is only a partial analysis. There's a lot more out there.)
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Wrote about an extraordinary ongoing hacking campaign in Belarus by a group called the "Cyber Partisans", which has breached dozens of police & government databases in recent months in a bid to expose wrongdoing & overthrow the Lukashenko regime
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For those interested, I posted this full WikiLeaks-Trump timeline on a single page on my website & also added a few other key events:
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New: Former employees at US tech firm Kaseya told us they tried to raise alarm repeatedly about internal security failings before the recent hack of the company's software that led to one of the worst ever ransomware incidents
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ISIS, Trump, Kremlin & neo-Nazis all celebrating #Brexit . What an inglorious day this is for British democracy.
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What GCHQ says privately about "damaging" public debate:
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Privately, 20 Sept 2016: WikiLeaks sends @DonaldJTrumpJr Jr a password to an anti-Trump website which it claims to have "guessed."
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Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3
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An Uyghur woman tried to flee persecution in China with her four children. She sought refuge in the Belgian embassy in Beijing. The Belgians called Chinese police & handed the woman & her children over to them. Despicable.
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Spoke w/ @WHO 's chief information officer Bernardo Mariano today -- he says the organization is facing an unprecedented number of attempted hacks amid the Covid-19 crisis, w/ top officials leading the virus fight targeted by suspected nation state actors:
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1. Some thoughts on the claim repeated by @PressSec today that Obama used UK spy agency GCHQ to surveil Trump.
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Privately, 21 Oct 2016: WikiLeaks asks Trump Jr to share copies of @realDonaldTrump 's tax returns to "dramatically improve the perception of our impartiality" & get "much higher impact" for "the vast amount of stuff that we are publishing about Clinton."
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Here is the entire chain of messages with @wikileaks (with my whopping 3 responses) which one of the congressional committees has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic! 1/3
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We used maps of NSA's infrastructure & AT&T's networks to pinpoint the eight facilities where the surveillance takes place. They are towering windowless skyscrapers & fortress-like concrete structures, built to withstand earthquakes & even nuclear attack.
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Google compiled a censorship blacklist for the search engine that included terms such as “human rights,” “student protest,” & “Nobel Prize” in Mandarin, according to information newly obtained by @theintercept .
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9. Source of these claims, @JudgeNap , has appeared on conspiracy site InfoWars & has flirted w/ 9/11 truth theories.
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Chinese spy defects to Australia, reveals trove of info on how the country has covertly kidknapped activists, co-opted media & infiltrated universities:
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A disturbing attack on press freedom in Brazil. @ggreenwald is absurdly charged with "cybercrimes" for his role producing award-winning journalism that exposed justice minister Sergio Moro's misconduct.
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*Publicly*, on 10 Nov 2016: WikiLeaks claims in a Reddit AMA that "we were not publishing with a goal to get any specific candidate elected." Claims it did not "editorially back one candidate over another."
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In a disturbing case in France, journalists are facing potential prosecution & five years in prison for handling a classified document that revealed how the country's government misled the public about its involvement in the Yemen conflict:
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A surveillance system in Beijing was left unsecured without a password so anyone could access it through the internet; a researcher discovered it & found facial recognition being used to detect Uyghurs, an ethnic minority persecuted by Chinese govt:
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Got a new piece dropping shortly about the extraordinary backlash over Google's Dragonfly project. The internet giant is scrambling to stop more leaks amid an internal uproar about its planned censored China search app, which was kept secret from most of the company's employees.
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8. If US asked GCHQ to eavesdrop on Trump, US would still need a warrant to do so & there would be a paper trail.
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Ryan Gallagher
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Microsoft-owned LinkedIn is censoring the account of a leading Chinese human rights activist who helped organise the Tiananmen protests in 1989. A reminder that Microsoft routinely bows down to the Chinese govt's authoritarian demands & has been doing so for years -- a disgrace.
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My LinkedIn account was blocked by LinkedIn in China, a day after my other social account was blocked in China.This is how censorship spread from Communist China to Silicon Valley in the age of globalization and digitalization. How does LinkedIn get the order from Beijing?
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AT&T developed a strategy to help the NSA electronically eavesdrop the peering circuits at the eight sites, which the agency said connected to the “common backbone,” major data routes carrying internet traffic.
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New: Google employees have joined the slew of politicians & activists blasting the internet giant for pulling a voting app from Russia’s opposition leader @Navalny , a move critics say showed the company was caving in to the Kremlin.
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The confidential project - code-named "Dragonfly" - has been underway for more than a year. It's a dramatic shift in Google's policy on China nearly a decade after the internet giant pulled its search engine out of the country, citing concerns about "forces of totalitarianism."
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Excited to announce that next month I'll be joining Bloomberg @technology as a senior reporter. I'll cover the same topics I have in the past, w/ focus on Europe & cybersecurity: state & criminal hacking, big tech, election interference, internet censorship/surveillance, etc.
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