Digital Rights

Senate confirms Gen. Rudd as NSA chief 71-29, ending 11-month vacancy

A special ops general with no cyber background now runs U.S. signals intelligence

US intercepts Iran signal that may activate domestic sleeper cells

Trump blamed his own DHS shutdown for weakening the domestic terror response

Anthropic sues Pentagon over AI safety blacklisting

Pentagon used Claude in Iran strikes while simultaneously calling it a security risk

ICE bypasses Fourth Amendment by buying phone location data without warrants, Wyden reveals

Wyden''s letter documents ICE''s return to practices the OIG found illegal in 2023

Iran's hackers surge as CISA runs on 800 furloughed-down staff

Congress''s funding lapse leaves CISA at 31% staff as Iran targets U.S. infrastructure

900 Google and OpenAI workers demand employers keep AI ethics limits on military use

Tech workers invoke 2018 Maven cancellation and demand Google repeat it

Pentagon used Anthropic AI to target Iran after Trump declared it a national security risk

AI company banned for refusing surveillance work, military used it anyway to pick targets

Trump CFPB shutdown faces D.C. Circuit court battle over agency funding

Workers fight to keep consumer protection agency alive as administration defunds it

Trump considers executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship data

Banks call proposed citizenship data order "unworkable" — half of Americans lack passports

Pentagon threatens to blacklist Anthropic over AI weapons limits

Trump designates Anthropic a supply chain risk after company refuses to drop AI guardrails