Technology Twitter Helped Chinese Government Promote Disinformation on Repression of MuslimsThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Twitter helped to promote Chinese government propaganda and disinformation about the country’s controversial internment camps in the Xinjiang region, …
Technology Google Is Deepening Its Involvement With Egypt’s Repressive GovernmentThe Intercept - Vic Ryan Google is set to re-staff its Cairo office, which more or less went dormant in 2014, following the military coup that brought President Abdel Fattah …
Accenture Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter ClaimsThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Nearly 1,500 miles from the Menlo Park headquarters of Facebook, at a company outpost in Austin, Texas, moderators toil around the clock to screen …
Intercept A New App Allows Readers in China to Bypass Censorship of The InterceptThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Since June, people in China have been unable to read The Intercept, after the country’s government apparently banned our website, along with those of …
FBI The Trump Administration Is Using the Full Power of the U.S. Surveillance State Against WhistleblowersThe Intercept - Micah Lee Government whistleblowers are increasingly being charged under laws such as the Espionage Act, but they aren’t spies. They’re ordinary Americans and, …
Mobile Technology We Tested Europe’s New Lie Detector for Travelers — and Immediately Triggered a False PositiveThe Intercept - Ryan GallagherLudovica Jona They call it the Silent Talker. It is a virtual policeman designed to strengthen Europe’s borders, subjecting travelers to a lie detector test before …
Technology Google Continues Investments in Military and Police AI Technology Through Venture Capital ArmThe Intercept - Lee Fang Last year,Google faced internal revolt from many employees over its handling of Project Maven, a secretive contract between the company and the …
Cognitive Computing Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible IdeaThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Perhaps because it lies at the perfect nexus of genuinely-very-complicated and impossibly-confounded-by-marketing-buzzword-speak, the term “AI” has …
Before Being Hacked, Border Surveillance Firm Lobbied to Downplay Security and Privacy Concerns About Its TechnologyThe Intercept - Cora Currier Few people had ever heard of Perceptics, a Tennessee-based subcontractor that sells license plate readers to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, …
Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and GoogleThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher It is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring …
Technology How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance StateThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China’s authoritarian government conduct …
Hacked Border Surveillance Firm Wants To Profile Drivers, Passengers, and Their “Likely Trip Purpose” In New York CityThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Just months before millions of its internal documents were stolen and dumped on the internet, the Tennessee-based surveillance company Perceptics was …
In Court, Facebook Blames Users for Destroying Their Own Right To PrivacyThe Intercept - Sam Biddle In April 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat before members of both houses of Congress and told them his company respected the privacy of the …
National Security Team of American Hackers and Emirati Spies Discussed Attacking The InterceptThe Intercept - Sam BiddleMatthew Cole Operatives at a controversial cybersecurity firm working for the United Arab Emirates government discussed targeting The Intercept and breaching the …
Right-Wing Sting Group Project Veritas Is Breaking Facebook’s “Authentic Behavior” Rule. Now What?The Intercept - Sam Biddle A member of Project Veritas gave testimony in a federal court case indicating that the right-wing group, known for its undercover videos, violates …
China Bans The Intercept and Other News Sites in “Censorship Black Friday”The Intercept - Ryan Gallagher The Chinese government appears to have launched a major new internet crackdown, blocking the country’s citizens from accessing The Intercept’s …
This Chinese Artist Criticized Google and Xi Jinping. Now He’s Facing Government Harassment.The Intercept - Ryan Gallagher The messages arrived suddenly and then he went quiet. “My identity is leaked,” he said. “I am worried about my safety.” The Chinese dissident artist …
Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It SoughtThe Intercept - Alex Emmons In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a …
Meltdown Showed Extent of NSA Surveillance — and Other Tales From Hundreds of Intelligence DocumentsThe Intercept - Margot WilliamsHenrik MoltkeMicah LeeRyan Gallagher The problem had been brewing for nearly a decade, intelligence sources had warned, as the National Security Agency vacuumed up more and more …
Mission Creep: How the NSA’s Game-Changing Targeting System Built for Iraq and Afghanistan Ended Up on the Mexican BorderThe Intercept - Henrik Moltke In November 2005, two terminals for a new secure communications platform arrived at the U.S. military base at Bagram Airfield, outside Afghanistan’s …
Israel Hated American Ban on Sharing Intel for Assassinations, So U.S. Made New RulesThe Intercept - Murtaza Hussain As Israel and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah exchanged blows during their short-lived but devastating 2006 war, Israeli military officials used …
Sinking of Russian Nuclear Submarine Known to West Much Earlier Than Stated, NSA Document IndicatesThe Intercept - Miriam Pensack If one were to draw a map of the locales most pivotal to Vladimir Putin’s political trajectory, the bottom of the Barents Sea might not immediately …
Thanks to Facebook, Your Cellphone Company Is Watching You More Closely Than EverThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Among the mega-corporations that surveil you, your cellphone carrier has always been one of the keenest monitors, in constant contact with the one …
Google’s Censored Search Would Help China “Be More Open,” Said Ex-CEO Eric SchmidtThe Intercept - Ryan Gallagher Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has defended the company’s plan to build a censored version of its search engine in China. In an interview with the BBC …
Technology Swarms of Drones, Piloted by Artificial Intelligence, May Soon Patrol Europe’s BordersThe Intercept - Zach Campbell Imagine you’re hiking through the woods near a border. Suddenly, you hear a mechanical buzzing, like a gigantic bee. Two quadcopters have spotted you …
Technology Privacy Experts, Senators Demand Investigation of Amazon’s Child Data Collection PracticesThe Intercept - Sam Biddle Last year, a coalition of privacy advocates and child psychologists warned against putting an Amazon Alexa speaker anywhere near your child on the …
Palantir Peter Thiel’s Palantir Was Used To Bust Relatives of Migrant Children, New Documents ShowThe Intercept - Sam BiddleRyan Devereaux Palantir, the CIA-funded data analysis company founded by billionaire Trump adviser Peter Thiel, provided software at the center of a 2017 operation …
Technology Avoid Surveillance With Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly PrivateThe Intercept - Micah Lee During a group dinner in a small town in Norway in 2015, at an international conference for investigative journalists, a Ukrainian reporter told me …
Bernie Sanders New Bernie Sanders App Democratizes Organizing — and Panics People Unfamiliar With OrganizingThe Intercept - Aída Chávez The Bernie Sanders campaign kicked off its massive volunteer program this weekend by holding nearly 5,000 house parties across the country and …
