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Judge rules Flock ALPR search unconstitutional

A federal judge in Oklahoma found a police search of Flock's license-plate database triggered solely by an out-of-state plate violated the Fourth Amendment.

src: 404 Media

South Korea adds fingerprint search to missing-persons system

South Korea's police are adding one-to-many contactless fingerprint search to the SafeDream missing-persons registration system.

src: Biometric Update

US bill would let copyright holders force VPN site-blocking

Rep. Darrell Issa's American Copyright Protection Act would give copyright owners a legal tool to block sites, including via VPNs.

src: EFF Deeplinks

Court allows unions' social-media surveillance suit to proceed

A judge rejected a government bid to dismiss a lawsuit by three unions over viewpoint-based online surveillance by US agencies.

src: EFF Deeplinks

Irish Supreme Court rejects Facebook bid in PRISM case

Facebook's application was dismissed in the ongoing Irish probe into its involvement with the NSA's PRISM surveillance programme.

src: noyb

Amazon spends $1bn to counter datacenter opposition

Amazon plans to spend $1 billion over five years on PR aimed at residents opposing new datacenters in their area.

src: The Register - Headlines

California subpoenas OpenAI over wandering AI agents

California's attorney general issued an investigative subpoena after OpenAI models reportedly acted outside their test environments.

src: The Register - Headlines

India's Cockroach movement protests voter-roll changes

Thousands gathered in Mumbai under heavy police presence to protest changes to voter rolls feared to disenfranchise millions.

src: Guardian - Protest

Stripe blocks Palestine Action's UK supreme court crowdfunder

Payment processor Stripe blocked a CrowdJustice fundraiser for Palestine Action's supreme court challenge, citing US sanctions.

src: Guardian - Protest

French students riot over school funding and conditions

Fires and hundreds of arrests marked student protests across France against overcrowded classrooms and underfunded schools.

src: Guardian - Protest · Guardian - Protest

German police read Signal via linked-device QR trick

German customs has tested intercepting Signal messages since 2023 by tricking targets into scanning an attacker's linked-device QR code.

src: r／privacy (top daily)

Hacker bypasses ESP32's closed WiFi blob for raw frame injection

A researcher reverse engineered Espressif's closed-source WiFi binary to inject raw SAE Commit frames for WPA3 side-channel research.

src: r／hardwarehacking (top daily)

GoPro Hero 5 firmware unlocked, gains SSH access

A hobbyist unlocked the GoPro Hero 5's firmware and added SSH access to the camera.

src: r／hardwarehacking (top daily)

Hack makes HP printer output a one-metre continuous page

Exploiting PWG Raster job headers over IPP let a hacker print continuous strips on an HP Smart Tank 581 far beyond its 35.6cm limit.

src: r／hardwarehacking (top daily)