U.S. Customs and Border Protection purchased technology that vacuums up reams of personal information stored inside cars, according to a federal contract reviewed by The Intercept, illustrating the serious risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone. The contract, shared with… Read More ›
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Oracle Executive's Contentious Interview With the Reporter He Sought Dirt On
Editor’s Note: In response to The Intercept’s recent coverage of Oracle, the company’s executive vice president and lobbyist Ken Glueck wrote two lengthy posts on Oracle’s blog that went beyond normal media discourse. In the first post, he published the… Read More ›
Browse The Intercept Anonymously and Securely Using Our New Tor Onion Service
Tor, the decentralized anonymity network, has been an integral part of our workflows at The Intercept since we launched in 2013. We use Tor to securely communicate with confidential sources using our SecureDrop server, and individual journalists routinely use Tor… Read More ›
How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year”
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” to celebrate two… Read More ›
Progressive Groups Fight AT&T and T-Mobile’s New Texting Rules
About a month out from the 2020 presidential election, an app called RoboKiller published the first glimpse into how campaigns and advocacy groups were leveraging political texts and calls to shape the race. The app, designed to block automated calls… Read More ›
Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power
The explosion and blackout at the Natanz nuclear facility in Iran over the weekend raised the specter of past sabotage — including the Stuxnet cyberattack that took out some of Natanz’s centrifuges between 2007 and 2010 as well as an… Read More ›
LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE
The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with The Intercept. The deal is already drawing fire from critics and comes… Read More ›
Documents Show Amazon Is Aware Drivers Pee in Bottles and Even Defecate En Route, Despite Company Denial
In anticipation of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s scheduled trip to Bessemer, Alabama, to support the unionization drive by Amazon workers there, Amazon executive Dave Clark cast the $1 trillion behemoth as “the Bernie Sanders of employers” and taunted: “So if you… Read More ›
Cuomo’s Covid-19 Vaccine Passport Leaves Users Clueless About Privacy
Technology firms are leaping at the chance to use the the Covid-19 pandemic to ply dubious products, from useless thermal cameras to creepy tracking collars. The latest comes courtesy of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who entered the state into… Read More ›
Amazon Retaliated Against Chicago Workers Following Spring Covid-19 Protests, NLRB Finds
In April 2020, as the world was coming to terms with the new coronavirus pandemic, workers at an Amazon sorting facility in Chicago launched a series of safety strikes to demand Covid-19 protections for all staff. It was one of… Read More ›