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Surveillance vendors caught abusing access to telcos to track people's locations

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-23 Cached

Citizen Lab exposed two surveillance campaigns exploiting SS7 and Diameter flaws to track phone locations via rogue telecom access.

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It's time to reclaim the word "Palantir" for JRR Tolkien

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-23 Cached

A talk by a former AI industry insider argues for reclaiming the term "Palantir" from the surveillance company and critiques its role in war zones and the NHS.

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Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs

Hacker News Top · 2026-04-22 Cached

Meta is installing keystroke, mouse and screenshot monitoring software on employee PCs to gather real-world usage data for building AI agents, prompting internal unease.

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NSA using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist

Reddit r/singularity · 2026-04-20

The NSA is reportedly using Anthropic's Mythos AI model despite it being on a blacklist, raising questions about government AI procurement and oversight. The Pentagon appears to have a different stance than the NSA on the matter.

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Our agreement with the Department of War

OpenAI Blog · 2026-02-28 Cached

OpenAI announced an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (referred to as 'Department of War') for deploying advanced AI systems in classified environments, with explicit guardrails against domestic surveillance, autonomous weapons direction, and high-stakes automated decisions. The agreement includes cloud-only deployment, retained safety stacks, and cleared OpenAI personnel oversight.

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