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Minor Threat

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Dhruv Mehrotra

Switch Over

The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search

Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

The US Is Building a One-Stop Shop for Buying Your Data

Andy Greenberg, Dell Cameron, and Andrew Couts

Like and Subscribe

How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People

Matt Burgess

Intrusions

How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes

Micah Lee

Free for All

CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

True Crime

An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado

Andy Greenberg

Security Roundup

ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador

Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman

Exit Strategy

US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car

Caroline Haskins

High Visibility

The Company Behind the Signal Clone Mike Waltz Used Has Direct Access to User Chats

Lily Hay Newman

Say Cheese

US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

Caroline Haskins

Give and Take

Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

Kate O'Flaherty

AI Inside

WhatsApp Is Walking a Tightrope Between AI Features and Privacy

Lily Hay Newman

Overtake

Car Subscription Features Raise Your Risk of Government Surveillance, Police Records Show

Dell Cameron

Security Roundup

Pete Hegseth’s Signal Scandal Spirals Out of Control

Matt Burgess and Andrew Couts

Uncanny Valley

Protecting Your Phone—and Your Privacy—at the US Border

Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Katie Drummond

Search Terms

How to Protect Yourself From Phone Searches at the US Border

Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

Florida Man Enters the Encryption Wars

Lily Hay Newman

ICE'd Out

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

Caroline Haskins

Stranger Danger

New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children

Justin Ling

Autodelete

Here’s What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages

Dell Cameron

Pwned

Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins

Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman

Bad Company

TraderTraitor: The Kings of the Crypto Heist

Matt Burgess