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We’re all FEMALE now, yay!! 💅
Due to Trump’s executive order saying sex is determined at the moment of *conception*.
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The #Hegseth hearing was so disturbing that I can't seem to shake off my anger and frankly, fear, hours after witnessing the flagrant misogyny, racism, bigotry, blind loyalty, self-righteousness, and stupidity coming out of the mouths of all those white Republican men.
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Today a court in Santa Barbara voided a warrant seeking information associated with two activist Instagram accounts. This is an important victory for speech and privacy rights in California.
The court adopted reasoning in a brief ACLU NorCal filed, highlighting the strict limits on the government seeking information when First Amendment rights are at stake.
An Apple employee is suing the tech giant to limit access to employee personal devices.
According to the suit, Apple employees who use personal devices for work must allow Apple to install software that grants Apple access to search anything stored on the device or iCloud. The suit says Apple can monitor staff even when they're off duty.
If the employee wins, it could be another win against "bossware" surveillance.
Who would have thought that a hacker who goes by "Waifu" would be hoisted on the petard of his own misogyny? This is my most shocked face.
My dude, you could have just not threatened a woman who runs her own security research company.
Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221B, a U.S. cybersecurity firm.
The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance
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