Privacy
Security Roundup
Mystery Drone Sightings Lead to FAA Ban Despite No Detected Threats
Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, and Andrew Couts
Security Roundup
Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers
Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, and Andrew Couts
Seek and Destroy
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
Lily Hay Newman
Crossing a Line
FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra
Clear Cut
Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers
Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts
FUBAR
Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron
Workarounds
Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
Lily Hay Newman
Security Roundup
Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, and Andrew Couts
Follower Count
ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
Caroline Haskins
New Era
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Andy Greenberg and Lily Hay Newman
Own Goals
Flaw in Right-Wing ‘Election Integrity’ App Exposes Voter-Suppression Plan and User Data
Dhruv Mehrotra
Security Roundup
Florida Man Accused of Hacking Disney World Menus, Changing Font to Wingdings
Matt Burgess and Lily Hay Newman