REvil ransomware gang allegedly forced offline by law enforcement counterattacks

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Black man sues police, saying he was falsely ID’d by facial recognition, joining other Black Americans falling victim to the technology’s racial bias.
The underground payment-card data broker saw its blockchain DNS sites taken offline after an apparent law-enforcement effort.
The department has said no thanks to the Clearview AI platform, after an expose showing that officers had used it 475 times during a trial period alone.
Pilot program again sparks privacy fears from ACLU as Amazon takes its partnership with law enforcement to the next level. Police in Mississippi are testing a program in which they can livestream video from Ring cameras installed at private homes and businesses. The move is sounding an alarm bell with . . . Read more
Amazon notified customers and law enforcement of the insider-threat incident this week. Amazon has fired an employee who shared customers’ names and email addresses with a third party. An Amazon spokesperson told Threatpost that it has systems in place to limit and control access to information, and processes in place . . . Read more
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