New from 404 Media: Home Depot and Lowe's are sharing data from hundreds of AI cameras with cops. Records show a cop in Texas for example is able to search Flock cameras at Lowe's across the country. These stores are "contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet"
The 404 Media Podcast is up! - Google indexing people's ChatGPT convos - how Wikipedia is fighting AI slop - subscribers: how we got to the Steam/Itch censorship Apple/Spotify/YouTube [redownload if you accidentally have last week's ep]:
Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials.
ICE is about to go on a recruitment ad blitz, including on Hulu, HBO Max, and Amazon Prime
New from 404 Media: ICE is about to go on a social media and TV ad recruiting blitz, according to contracting records. Shows ICE wants to target Gen Z and have ads on Hulu, HBO Max, Amazon Prime. Will also geofence areas to target particular people. Wants to hire 14k
Tea user files a class action against Tea, cites the two data breaches we first reported. First, selfies + driver licenses. Second, more than a million DMs
Several Reddit communities dedicated to sharing news and media from conflicts around the world now require users in the UK to submit a photo ID or selfie in order to prove they are old enough to view “mature” content. Includes r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage.
Los Angeles tomorrow: - July 30, 6PM - at RIP Space - free for 404 Media subscribers, $10 everyone else - free beer/wine - live pod recording about the tech behind ICE - tickets and subscriber code here:
New: Tea has turned off DMs after we found it was possible for hackers to get them. We obtained a cache of more than a million DMs, discussing abortions, cheating, more. I told Tea about this issue on Saturday. Tea only disabled DMs after we published on Monday
New from 404 Media: Meta is going to let job candidates use AI during coding tests, according to internal Meta communications we've seen. "This is more representative of the developer environment that our future employees will work in."