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America’s Department of Homeland Security Is Spying on Social Media to Track Threats to Statues
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis has been authorised to conduct social media surveillance of protestors in order to protect statues and monuments, according to an unclassified three-page document obtained by Lawfare and the Washington Post. The undated document appears to offer legal guidance to analysts at I&A about how…
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Hackers Vandalise U.S. Government Website With Pro-Iran Message And Illustration Of Bloody Trump
Hackers vandalised a relatively small U.S. government website on Sunday, leaving behind a message for President Donald Trump and implying that the government of Iran was behind the hack. But there’s no evidence yet that Iran was actually behind the intrusion, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a division of the…
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American Authorities Now Looking Into Escort And Massage Sites That Boomed After Backpage Takedown
A year after the CEO of classified ads website Backpage.com, Carl Ferrer, pleaded guilty to federal charges and the site was permanently shut down, the feds have turned their attention to Backpage’s successors.
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Homeland Security To Start DNA Testing Asylum Seekers As It Tries To Back Up ‘Fake Families’ Scare Tactic
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will start using Rapid DNA tests on some asylum seekers at the U.S.–Mexico border next week, according to a new report from CNN. The tests are intended to determine whether adults and children who are travelling together are actually family members.