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Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been hit with an eye-watering €1.2 billion fine (about A$1.9 billion) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).

The Conversation

TechScape: Warnings of a ‘splinternet’ were greatly exaggerated – until now

In this week’s newsletter: Facebook has been hit with a €1.2bn fine by EU regulators, and the cracks in the fault lines of data regulations are showing. Could that be a good thing?

The Guardian - UK

Facebook owner Meta fined £1billion for breach in user data rules

The record fine was levied after a three-year probe

Wales Online

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Alleged military secret leaker Jack Teixeira ordered detained ahead of trial

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Air National Guard serviceman charged with leaking highly sensitive military secrets to an online forum dedicated largely to the gaming community has been ordered detained ahead of trial.

Boston Herald

Nicholas Goldberg: Whistleblower or traitor? How to think about Jack Teixeira and the Pentagon leaks

The law is clear. If you mishandle, distribute or disclose classified information you can get in big trouble. In the worst cases, as with Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old Air National Guardsman who has been accused of divulging top secret national security documents, you can be arrested, charged under the Espionage…

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Discord leaks show the perils of over-classification

The arrest of a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard for allegedly leaking classified intelligence material is a startling twist in a case that has damaged relations with allies, exposed concerns about the war in Ukraine, and provided other countries with valuable information about the United States' spying…

Tribune News Service

From Ellsberg to Assange: Jack Teixeira joins list of alleged leakers

The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

The Guardian - US

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The Pentagon leaks reveal the rot at the heart of US intelligence – but they haven’t hurt Ukraine

This latest cache of secret documents is yet another own goal by a pathologically confused security service, says barrister Frank Ledwidge

The Guardian - UK

Yet another case of mishandling classified documents and alleged violations of the Espionage Act: 3 essential reads

The stunning arrest of 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira on charges of illegally sharing U.S. intelligence has once again renewed questions on the handling of classified documents.

The Conversation

‘A little kid trying to be important’: locals react to Pentagon leak suspect

A post-9/11 switch from ‘need-to-know’ to ‘need-to-share’ explains why a low-level guardsman had access to such sensitive material

The Guardian - US

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

The establishment has tried to sanitize Ellsberg. But his lessons on the madness of war are even more relevant now

Salon

The latest saga of revealed U.S. secrets stirs memories of past legendary leaks

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

WEKU

Pentagon leak was decades in the making

Computer network was designed for use by much smaller number of people amid questions over amount of classified material on the system

The Guardian - UK

The Pentagon leak that landed on a chat forum about Minecraft exposes an unavoidable weakness in US national security

The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has forced defence officials into the online worlds of gamers, meme lords and their leagues of followers, and exposed an unavoidable weakness in US national security.

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The Independent UK

Pentagon leaks show difficulty of keeping secrets in a vast intelligence network

Britain issues more than 180,000 security clearances every year, as Kim Sengupta explains

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Once again, the US reels from classified data leaks. This time, Ukraine’s at stake

The gaping holes that Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden poked into what America assumed were secure, firewalled troves of classified data taught Washington a sobering lesson about the importance of keeping secrets leakproof.

The Guardian - UK

US intelligence leak: what do we know about ‘top secret’ documents?

Everything that is known about images said to be classified Pentagon documents circulating on social media

WEKU

How will the Ukraine document investigation work? A former DOJ 'leak czar' explains

Brandon Van Grack, who led the Justice Department's probe into Edward Snowden, says the priority has to be finding the source of the leak and ensuring there aren't any more coming.

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Al Jazeera

US says China can spy with TikTok. It spies on world with Google

Lawmakers’ push to ban app comes as they mull extending powers that force tech firms to enable mass snooping for the US.

Tribune News Service

The spy law that Big Tech wants to limit

Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how U.S. intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users, especially American citizens.

Tribune News Service

The spy law that Big Tech wants to limit

Top tech companies are mounting a push to limit how US intelligence agencies collect and view texts, emails and other information about their users, especially American citizens.

The Guardian - UK

A Compassionate Spy review – love story of scientist who tried to stop nuclear war

Steve James’s engrossing documentary tells the story of Ted Hall, a young physicist who leaked nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union in order to protect the future of mankind

The Independent UK

Russell Brand rails against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC and Fox News ‘propaganda’ in viral rant

The comedian said whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange practiced ‘real journalism’

Reason

SCOTUS Says Domestic Spying Is Too Secret To Be Challenged in Court

Officials shield government abuses from litigation by claiming “national security.” The Supreme Court declined to weigh in.

Fortune

Here's why Bitcoiners are flocking to Nostr

Exactly how high is the ceiling for the decentralized social network?

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