The ACLU Is Arming Lawyers to Expose State Surveillance Secrets

2026-07-21T08:52:12Zdb65c43f14654161aab9e30a480e9788f28e33dedb34a504eca130b62858c0d8
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What happened

A set of WIRED security stories covering a broad array of privacy, surveillance, and cyberthreat developments: an ACLU toolkit to help attorneys uncover police surveillance tech (facial recognition, AI-generated police reports); apps marketed to U.S. service members found to include Chinese and Russian code (supply-chain risk); pervasive privacy risks from period-tracking apps; prompt‑injection techniques being used defensively against malicious AI agents; city and vendor actions over AI “nudify” face‑swap apps and Meta’s contested NameTag face recognition claims; an SFPD drone‑video leak; an

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2026-07-21T08:52:12Z
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