Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a bill banning police agencies from purchasing Americans' location data, has passed by the House in a 220-to-197 vote.
Big victory for Team Ron Wyden
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ICYMI: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.
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The Walsh hack was one of our most-read stories today, with more trafficking originating from Twitter than my editor has seen in a year. Streisand is back, baby!
Decided to drift back and start sharing here again. But for anyone missing my posts, there's is a bot here re-sharing my stories and other dumb posts in all their unfiltered chaos, if you're into that kind of thing.
Exclusive: US intelligence officials have quietly issued warnings to law enforcement around the country about election deniers heightening the risk of political violence, with reports citing conversations about planting "explosive materials” inside ballot drop boxes.
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-election-denial-violent-attacks/
#Harvard Law Review voted to censor what would have been its first blog by a Palestinian scholar—specifically, an editor said, because people “might oppose or be offended by it.”
The Nation has released it in full: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/harvard-law-review-gaza-israel-genocide/
NEW: State attorneys general say Meta is ignoring hacking victims, causing a drain on law enforcement resources nationwide.
There's been a 1000% increase in complaints, they say, since roughly around the time Meta laid off 13% of its staff.
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-hacked-users-draining-resources/
My latest at WIRED: New polling shows that roughly 80 percent of Democrats feel the government should be doing more to take on corporate monopolies. Still, prominent party donors are urging Kamala Harris to dump Joe Biden's star antitrust enforcer.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-chair-lina-khans-democrats-donors-harris/
Here's my latest, ICYMI: In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, FBI warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
It called on agents to ensure they're properly identifying themselves in the field. Video footage and other anecdata suggest otherwise.
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/
A broker w/ US defense ties (and execs accusing each other of fraud) tracked nearly 200 cellphones and other devices on/off Jeffrey Epstein's cursed pedo island.
WIRED lifted the data & is analyzing it (cautiously)
My latest w/ Dhruv Mehrotra:
https://www.wired.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-island-visitors-data-broker-leak/
NEW: Anti-immigrant hate & talk of “invasion” in the US is driving a surge in threats against federal judges & border patrol officers, routinely doxed as “traitors,” US intelligence reports reviewed by WIRED show.
https://www.wired.com/story/judges-border-police-targeted-extremism/
hmm
WIRED sent a reporter to a "constitutional sheriffs" convention.
One speaker said he'd formed a "posse" of about 150 "deputized citizens" to protect voting polls from "immigrants" and then passed out literature for other sheriffs to teach them how to form their own. #elections
https://www.wired.com/story/constitutional-sheriffs-election-deniers-immigrants-voting/
An FBI email obtained by WIRED shows a Deputy Director encouraging warrantless wiretaps of "US persons."
Meanwhile, we've learned Intel Committee members are hosting a private party on the Hill called "FISA FEST" to celebrate extending a warrantless spy program.
By me & William Turton:
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-section-702-us-person-queries-email/
good start! #tattoos
NEW: One of Silicon Valley's most influential lobbying arms say its members ("Big Tech") oppose the RISAA, a FISA surveillance bill the US Senate will take up tomorrow
The "Stasi provision" (as opponents are calling it) threatens to send customers fleeing into the hands of competitors overseas.
https://www.wired.com/story/iti-section-702-expansion-opposition/
House set to vote on a bill banning cops from buying location data instead of getting a warrant. [Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act]
NY Republican Nick LaLota is working to gut the bill with an amendment beforehand.
Going down now: https://www.c-span.org/event/?534978/house-representatives
This is an article from 1976 about the first Supreme Court decision kicking off the third-party doctrine, about a week after Apple Computers is founded. Found it on the CIA's website.
NEW by @ericgeller@mastodon.social at WIRED:
#Microsoft has been skating by on its security failures w/ some help from one of its biggest customers: The US government. #DoD
“You don't hear about these types of breaches coming out of other cloud service providers…”
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-has-a-microsoft-problem/
NEW: A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse. (CW)
This is a WIRED, Der Spiegel, Recorder, and Washington Post investigation.
NEW: At a closed-door briefing in December, House Intel officials alleged (falsely) that Americans protesting the war in Gaza had potential ties to Hamas while defending warrantless spying in the US.
My story on why Republicans in particular were shook by this:
https://www.wired.com/story/hpsci-us-protests-section-702-presentation/
NEW: Senate plans to vote tomorrow on a #FISA provision that legal experts say will greatly expand a US wiretap program, forcing whole new categories of businesses to spy on Americans communicating with people overseas.
Critics on Capitol Hill are calling it the "Stasi provision"
https://www.wired.com/story/senate-section-702-ecsr-provision/