grey_whiskers wrote:
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“I am looking into these intrusive Orwellian data-mining forms. Trying to get an answer from my legislative team on why they are happening & what I am going to do about them. Stand by 24-48 hours. In the meantime - blow them off, you are under no obligation to comply. https://t.co/yxelA1rsKo— Wendy Rogers (@WendyRogersAZ) July 20, 2021
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Please propagate forum-wide. AZ schools using children to narc on parents about gun ownership among other things.”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3976762/posts?page=1440#1440
!!!!!!PING!!!!!!!
(these survey cards aren’t a new idea; they were sent around when I was a kid in the mid-sixties; my folks tore em up)
An Israeli firm accused of supplying spyware to governments has been linked to a list of tens of thousands of smartphone numbers, including those of activists, journalists, business executives and politicians around the world, according to reports.
The NSO Group and its Pegasus malware—capable of switching on a phone’s camera or microphone, and harvesting its data—have been in the headlines since 2016, when researchers accused it of helping spy on a dissident in the United Arab Emirates.
Sunday’s revelations—part of a collaborative investigation by The Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Monde and other media outlets—raise privacy concerns and reveal the far-reaching extent to which the private firm’s software could be misused.
The leak consists of more than 50,000 smartphone numbers believed to have been identified as connected to people of interest by NSO clients since 2016, the news organizations said, although it was unclear how many devices were actually targeted or surveilled.
NSO has denied any wrongdoing, labelling the allegations “false.”
On the list were 15,000 numbers in Mexico—among them reportedly a number linked to a murdered reporter—and 300 in India, including politicians and prominent journalists.
Last week, the Indian government—which in 2019 denied using the malware to spy on its citizens, following a lawsuit—reiterated that “allegations regarding government surveillance on specific people has no concrete basis or truth associated with it whatsoever.”
The Post said a forensic analysis of 37 of the smartphones on the list showed there had been “attempted and successful” hacks of the devices, including those of two women close to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in 2018 by a Saudi hit squad.
Among the numbers on the list are those of journalists for Agence France-Presse, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, The New York Times, Al Jazeera, El Pais, the Associated Press, Le Monde, Bloomberg, The Economist, and Reuters, The Guardian said.
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