How modern war is waged.
Israeli spies ‘hacked every traffic camera in Tehran to plot killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’
Maira Butt reports:
Israeli spies hacked nearly every traffic camera in Tehran for years in order to monitor the movements of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in an unprecedented intelligence-gathering campaign, according to a report.
Officials surveilled highly trained and loyal security guards, bodyguards and drivers of senior Iranian officials to pick up on their “pattern of life”, the Financial Times reported.
This real-time data, including from cameras focused on Khamenei’s personal compound, was encrypted and transmitted back to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel.
They were able to determine where the guards would park their cars via an infiltrated security camera facing the Ayatollah’s home.
Read more at The Independent.
(Related)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/iran-cisa-cybersecurity-war-threat.html
The lead U.S. cyber agency is stretched thin as Iran hacking threat escalates
As the fighting in the Middle East roars on, cyber experts are increasingly warning of online attacks from Iran on U.S. businesses and infrastructure.
“From a timing perspective, it’s now or never,” said Pavel Gurvich, founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup Tenzai. “In that sense, the danger is meaningfully higher.”
Gurvich said Iran may have stored capabilities and is waiting for a high-risk moment to launch.
Perspective.
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/californias-age-verification-law-is-a-civil-liberties-test/
California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test
The law classifies user identities at the operating system level. Once embedded, that regulatory architecture of control is easy to expand and difficult to roll back.
Confusing at best… (If we can’t spy on them we can’t protect them?)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o
TikTok won't protect DMs with controversial privacy tech, saying it would put users at risk
TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption (E2EE) - the controversial privacy feature used by nearly all its rivals - arguing it makes users less safe.
… But critics have said E2EE makes it harder to stop harmful content spreading online, because it means tech firms and law enforcement have no way of viewing any material sent in direct messages.
The situation is made more complex because TikTok has long faced accusations that ties to the Chinese state may put users' data at risk.
… But the company has now told the BBC it believes the technology prevents police and safety teams from being able to read direct messages if they needed to.
It confirmed its approach in a briefing to the BBC about security at its London office - saying it wanted to protect users, especially young people, from harm.
Another slice of privacy…
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/chatbot_data_harvesting_personal_info/
Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts
… These extensions may silently intercept users' communications with AI services like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek. They can do so by overriding the browser's native fetch() and XMLHttpRequest() functions in order to capture every prompt and every response.
"This data is captured from real people's private AI conversations via browser extensions, stored in a vector database, and exposed via API to authenticated customers," said Dryburgh in his report. "The panelists have pseudonymized IDs (SHA-256 hashes) but the content of their conversations is stored verbatim and searchable — and many prompts contain real names, dates of birth, medical record numbers, and diagnosis codes."
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements
404 Media [no paywall]: “Customs and Border Protection (CBP) bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, in a process that often involves siphoning data from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media. The document shows in stark terms the power, and potential risk, of online advertising data and how it can be leveraged by government agencies for surveillance purposes. The news comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) purchased similar tools that can monitor the movements of phones in entire neighbourhoods. ICE also recently said in public procurement documents it was interested in sourcing more “Ad Tech” data for its investigations. Following 404 Media’s revelation of that ICE purchase, on Tuesday a group of around 70 lawmakers urged the DHS oversight body to conduct a new investigation into ICE’s location data buying…”
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