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Sources: the Trump administration is weighing a substantial shift in its cyberstrategy, including by enlisting private companies to assist with cyberattacks (Adam Sella/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/us-cyberwarfare-privat…

U.S. Weighs Expanding Private Companies’ Role in Cyberwarfare
The proposal raises a host of questions about the legality and practicality of bolstering the involvement of the private sector in offensive cyberoperations.

Private Krankenversicherungen: Daten und KI als Schlüssel für bessere Versorgung
Nach Sicht der Privaten Krankenversicherer soll die Digitalisierung die Versorgung verbessern – mit offenen Systemen, klaren Datenregeln und erkennbarem Nutzen.

The Trump administration is providing the names of all air travelers to immigration officials,
substantially expanding its use of data sharing to expel people under deportation orders.
Under the previously undisclosed program, the Transportation Security Administration provides a list multiple times a week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement of travelers who will be coming through airports.
ICE can then match the list against its own database of people subject to deporta…

T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort
The Transportation Security Administration is providing passenger lists to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to identify and detain travelers subject to deportation orders.

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People’s Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
👉 https://www.wired.com/stor…

I wish @… would go back to providing the pwned passwords list as a simple download and not require a weird tool that I have to deal with...
If someone wants to provide a service: Provide something like quarterly dumps of the list as a download.

Stop Grocery Gouging
https://act.lewisforleader.ca/stop-grocery-profiteering
Three grocery giants—Loblaws, Sobeys, and Metro—control our food system. They're price-fixing and colluding to keep prices sky-high, even as inflation comes down. The government needs to…

Stop Grocery Gouging - Lewis for Leader - National
Butter for $10. That's not inflation, that's profiteering. Three grocery giants—Loblaws, Sobeys, and Metro—control our food system. They're price-fixing and colluding to keep prices sky-high, even as inflation comes down. Meanwhile, Galen Weston, the owner of Loblaws, is worth $18 billion. This is market failure. When the market fails to deliver the necessities of a dignified life at prices people can afford, the government needs to step up. We need a public option for food and grocerie…

Sources: OneTrust, which sells privacy and compliance software and was last valued at $4.5B in 2023, is exploring a sale, possibly to private equity buyers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/onetrus…

OneTrust, Privacy Startup Last Valued at $4.5 Billion, Discusses Private Equity Sale
OneTrust, a nine-year-old startup that benefited from a wave of European and U.S. laws regulating how companies collect and share website data, is exploring a sale—possibly to private equity buyers, according to people familiar with the discussions. The Atlanta-based startup, which sells privacy ...

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Zweitgrößte Privatbank stärkt europäische Bezahl-App Wero
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Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm. We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says.

Comitis Capital übernimmt Threema
Threema gilt als sicherer Messenger-Dienst mit Fokus auf Privatsphäre. Am Montag hat Comitis Capital die Übernahme angekündigt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Comitis-Capital-