Joseph Cox
Co-Founder and Journalist at 404 Media
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: +44 20 8133 5190. Email: [email protected]
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3 days ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
The FBI says it is unable to find records related to its purchase of a series of hacking tools, despite spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them and those purchases initially being included in a public U.S. government procurement database before being quietly scrubbed from the internet. The news highlights the secrecy the FBI maintains around its use of hacking tools.
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5 days ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make a centralized database to identify immigration targets, according to a document viewed by 404 Media.
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1 week ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
Palantir, the surveillance giant, is taking on an increased role with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation, according to Palantir Slacks and other internal messages obtained by 404 Media.
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1 week ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
Last week Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid contracting giant Palantir tens of millions of dollars to make modifications to a powerful ICE database and search tool to allow “complete target analysis of known populations” and to update the tool’s targeting and enforcement priorities, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
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1 week ago |
404media.co | Joseph Cox
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is using various artificial intelligence tools, including ones that can quickly identify people of interest by pulling data from social media, according to documents published by the agency last week and marketing material from the contractors. The documents follow others that 404 Media has previously obtained and published through the Freedom of Information Act and are more up to date.
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New from 404 Media: the CDC website is being actively purged to comply with Trump's DEI order. CDC employee tells us they were ordered to have their preferred pronouns deleted from their email signatures https://t.co/i08o9ScOt9