Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE. Co-founder of @404mediaco. Signal: joseph.404 Email: [email protected]
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Joseph Cox's articles primarily focus on government announcements, data citations, and evolving stories within the tech, privacy & cybersecurity space. He often covers topics related to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, surveillance, hacking and technology. If you have insights into emerging trends or breaking news in these areas or can provide valuable input from a technical or regulatory perspective within the mentioned industries, your pitch may catch his attention.
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The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.
Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.
The case of Samuel Tunick allegedly wiping a phone before DHS could search it; inside an AI-powered TIkTok Shop; and Google Earth's dumb AI tool.
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
It's usually very difficult to investigate the advertising industry. A new tool called DecryptAds aims to make it much easier with a massive dataset anyone can query.
Zuckerberg's anti-social future; a company offering human writing that is actually just AI; and the big switch from Flock to Axon.
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
By: Joseph Cox
A new Meta published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, current a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night.
This week, we discuss the mainstreaming of Flock, media appearances, and Spotify's AI move.
“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”
