Martin Shelton

1 week ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Last week, following a flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles, journalist Alistair Kitchen was detained and interrogated for 12 hours by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

3 weeks ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. 404 Media reports that an officer from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas searched a nationwide database of more than 83,000 automated license plate reader cameras to monitor the whereabouts of a woman they said sought an abortion.

1 month ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. In May 2024, Microsoft announced a new feature named Recall, which would take screenshots of Windows users’ activities every few seconds and retain them for later searches. Windows users could then use Microsoft’s Copilot AI to search through their previous activity.

1 month ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

It’s the digital security training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), with security news that keeps you, your sources, and your devices safe. If someone shared this newsletter with you, please subscribe here. Following last year’s arrest by French authorities of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, the company is apparently much more cooperative about compliance with legal requests for user data.

1 month ago | freedom.press | Martin Shelton

Welcome to “Ask a security trainer,” the column where the Digital Security Training team at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) answers your burning questions at the intersection of journalism and security. Submit yours here! Let’s jump right into this week’s question. Dear DST,I’ve been seeing this story in the news about U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sending attack plans in Signal chats to the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who was apparently accidentally added to the group.