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Riccardo Coluccini @orariccardo.bsky.social · 5h

oggi escono altre 3 storie su @irpimedia.eu che fanno parte dell'inchiesta #SurveillanceSecrets guidata da @lighthousereports.com e @papertrailmedia.de e permettono di esplorare altrettanti aspetti dei sistemi di localizzazione come Altamides irpimedia.irpi.eu/surveillance...

First Wap, la pioniera delle società di sorveglianza di cui non avete mai sentito parlare

Dal 2007 sfrutta vulnerabilità della rete telefonica per localizzare telefoni, registrare chiamate e dirottare il traffico internet. Tra le vittime il giornalista Nuzzi e un ex manager Eni. Un archivi...

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Riccardo Coluccini @orariccardo.bsky.social · 1d

Se mesi fa su Google cercavi First Wap, azienda che fa prodotti di sorveglianza da circa 20 anni, trovavi poco—negli ultimi giorni nulla. Oggi con @lighthousereports.com @papertrailmedia.de @irpimedia.eu
e altri partner riveliamo tutto #SurveillanceSecrets www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Surveillance Secrets

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

www.lighthousereports.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: This tech has been used to track heads of state, journalists, and maybe even you.

@lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 12h

🧵What’s the biggest lie the surveillance industry tells? That they only sell to legal clients. That there are red lines. But what do these companies say when they think nobody is watching? We went undercover to find out

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to read about how we analyzed 1.5 million rows of tracking data, we’ve written a methodology here. www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/...

How First Wap Tracks Phones Around the World

From telecom protocols to a 1.5 million row dataset, here’s how we uncovered the reach and tactics of a mercenary phone-tracking company

www.lighthousereports.com

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

Today @lighthousereports.com and 13 partners are releasing Surveillance Secrets: the story of a European-led surveillance company with a footprint extending from the Vatican to Silicon Valley.

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Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social · 1d

On a Saturday night I stumbled across something on the internet that made me feel like ****** my pants. A giant dataset of real surveillance operations targeting 1000s of people across nearly every country. Unraveling it and the mysterious company behind it has consumed 1.5 years of my life

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5h

EFF mourns the loss and honors the life of Ahmed Mekkawy (@linuxawy.org), a friend and supporter who was a passionate advocate for free and open-source software and digital rights manassa.news/en/stories/2...

Farewell, Mekkawy

Ahmed Mekkawy, a pioneering Egyptian tech and digital rights advocate, is remembered for his generosity, activism, and lasting impact on open knowledge and technology.

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Hannah Neumann @hneumannmep.bsky.social · 12h

Investigative research on surveillance company First Wap showing once more that industry self-regulation doesn't work. First Wap enables illegal tracking of state leaders & civil society worldwide, using a workaround for export rules on sanctioned entities:

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Disruption Network Lab @disruptionlab.bsky.social · 9h

WWYD if commercial tech firms decided who the police should suspect?
German police already use Palantir’s Gotham for profiling. Join our Talk & Q&A, Berlin, 16. Oct. Free w/ registration: disruptionlab.org/te...
#dnl36 #newperspectivesforaction

The post has a background that is half colorful patters and the other half an abstract image where the word POLICE can be seen. In the foreground there is bold white text that reads: What would you do if commercial tech firms decided who the police should suspect?
German police use Palantir’s Gotham platform to analyse data from phones, social media, and official records. Critics warn: private tech firms are shaping state policing priorities.
(Source: IamExpat Germany, 2023)

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Digital Action @digitalaction.bsky.social · 8h

📣 #Tomorrow!

🗣️ Join us for the launch of the new report:
“Shadow Banning: The Subtle and Hidden Censorship of Major Digital Platforms”. Co-hosted by Observacom & Forum on Information and Democracy.

🕚 11:00 (Chile)
🌐 Online – in Sp w/live En
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/j/87418423128

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 10h

Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and his delegation arrived in Russia on an official visit to hold talks with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.

According to Reuters, the key topic of the meeting is Damascus’s request for the handover of former dictator Bashar al-Assad to Syrian authorities.

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Peter Lundberg @peterlundberg.bsky.social · 10h

In war, truth is the first casualty. Most IHL violations aren’t debated—they’re denied. That’s why real-time, reliable fact-finding is essential to accountability. Read attached article by my colleagues Manuel Galvis & Marko Milanovic 👉 EJIL: Talk! #IHL

www.ejiltalk.org/improving-fa...

Improving Fact-Finding for IHL and Harnessing Modern Technology

In the great majority of cases, state or non-state armed forces engaging in violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) do not attempt to justify their acts by offering different interpretation...

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 19h

xAI’s avatar-enabled or augmented sexual violence is actually far worse than what’s been reported in the media, and presents significant challenges to Grok’s T&S. Not sure it even exists. Hope an episode of CTRL ALT Speech can pick up on implications. @benwhitelaw.bsky.social @mmasnick.bsky.social

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10h

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 10h

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 2d

Quick Tip: Don’t want people getting pinged when you post or reply?

You can turn that off by heading to: Settings → Privacy and Security → Allow others to be notified of your posts and toggling it off.

A screenshot of “Allow others to be notified of your posts” with “No one” selected

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 1d

Is AI actually a sound social investment? Or a net drain of value? Come to Edinburgh and help us @braiduk.bsky.social develop a more holistic and rigorous methodology for measuring AI’s real worth!

Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · 2d

New research job alert! Come and join the amazing @braiduk.bsky.social team, working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social. The post is exploring the social return of AI investments. Feel free to reach out, and apply here - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 2d

If not Fash why Duce shaped

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 2d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 2d

"I have no place left to live in Gaza except this tent, which, it seems, will be my companion for many years to come."
Read Palestinian journalist Rasha Abou Jalal's latest on the announcement of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip:

Tears of joy, tears of sorrow and an end (hopefully) to Gaza’s long war

Palestinian journalist Rasha Abou Jalal confronts the range of emotion among displaced people at the announcement of a ceasefire.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 2d

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army

At AUSA 2025, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll took aim at traditional primes, saying the future Army will “break down barriers until we measure acquisitions not in years and billions, but months and thousands."

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Dérailleurs de Clamart @derailleursclam.bsky.social · 7d

Apéro ! Venez échanger avec les associations Vélo Piéton Châtillon et les Dérailleurs mercredi prochain au bar 115 !
📅: Mercredi 15 octobre à partir de 18h30
🚩: Le 115 (115 Av. de Verdun, Châtillon)

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Just Giulio @giuliowolfe.bsky.social · 2d

A thousand times this. Or Anita Garibaldi

Scoiattolo @offline.mountainherder.xyz · 2d

Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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