DEF CON has alienated many hackers by officially aligning its geopolitics with those of the U.S. military and announcing partnerships with the authoritarian countries of Bahrain and Singapore.| jackpoulson.substack.com
For-profit 'Open Sanctions' spin-out of OCCRP is subcontractor on classified U.S. military intelligence program MORTAL MINT, run by the Secretary of the Air Force's "Office of Competitive Activities."| jackpoulson.substack.com
The FTC hired Notre Dame technology and ethics professor Kirsten E. Martin as an expert witness for 18 months regarding Venntel and Gravy Analytics.| jackpoulson.substack.com
CyberWell has pushed to censor accurate social media posts about IDF and Hamas conduct and is an offshoot of an Israeli government surveillance effort known as Keshet David.| jackpoulson.substack.com
Despite U.S. reporting focusing on the actions of Israel's Unit 8200, Microsoft and Google have supported the Israeli military's Lotem technology unit for years.| jackpoulson.substack.com
The son of new Google Research chief Yossi Mathias is former officer of elite Israeli hacking unit and CEO of Clarity, which has worked with Israeli government on analyzing footage from Oct. 7.| jackpoulson.substack.com
U.S. military was pitched OpenAI's tools months before previous reporting and trained staff to use U.S.-sanctioned Chinese facial rec; Scale AI pitched itself as "ammo factory" for "AI wars".| jackpoulson.substack.com
Former Google Trust & Safety executive Radha Iyengar Plumb will replace Craig Martell, former Head of Machine Learning at Lyft, as the Pentagon's Chief Digital and AI Officer in April.| jackpoulson.substack.com
Lawyers from Premise Data declared on Friday that they have conditionally settled their lawsuit against former employee Alex Pompe, who allegedly exposed the company's covert surveillance.| jackpoulson.substack.com
Maury Blackman resigned from Premise Data this week after years of court battles, the exposure of Premise's clandestine surveillance, and publication of his felony domestic violence arrest.| jackpoulson.substack.com
Israeli gov-led Zoom calls, WhatsApp chat logs, and other docs provide a window into the massive effort to shape online discourse and silence pro-Palestinian voices.| jackpoulson.substack.com
A pseudonymous account claiming to represent Premise CEO Delwin Maury Blackman submitted a fraudulent DMCA Takedown request in an attempt to hide details of Mr. Blackman's felony arrest.| jackpoulson.substack.com
After the collapse of the commercial cellphone location-tracking market, Orbital Insight pivoted into helping Indonesian intelligence track the phones of West Papuans, according to former employee.| jackpoulson.substack.com
Space-based phone location-tracking firm HawkEye 360 announced its partnership with U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin this morning. The UAE military is allegedly a "strong" customer.| jackpoulson.substack.com