The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets
2026-07-20T20:52:13Z•38cf30599d8f653642e65781d5477075064ca1144feace6c998686eb61fa2566
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What happened
A collection of WIRED security pieces from July 2026 highlighting escalating privacy and national-security risks: state and corporate surveillance (facial recognition, SFPD drone footage, ACLU legal toolkit), pervasive data exposures (Dialog records, Pentagon/unmasked officials, LastPass recurrence), and supply-chain/third‑party risk in software and apps (US‑troop apps containing Chinese/Russian code, AI music-generator scraping). The roundup also emphasizes AI‑related threats and mitigations—prompt‑injection attacks, an AI finding a 15‑year Linux root bug, misuse of Anthropic’s Claude to sub
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