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Senators Raise Security Concerns Over Selling Personal Data May 5, 2021 Twitter Get Permission Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is one of the lawmakers raising national security concerns about the collection of personal data. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has sent a letter to Google, Twitter, Verizon, AT&T and online advertising firms and networks raising national security concerns about the selling of citizens' personal data, which could end up in the hands of foreign governments. In the letter, the lawmakers question these firms about the practice of "real-time bidding" - part of the digital...

Putin Authorized Smear Campaign Against Biden, US Intelligence Concludes Less hacking, more laundering: 2020 tactics show evolution of Russian information warfare efforts. With President Vladimir Putin’s authorization, the Russian government used Ukrainian proxies, individuals linked to President Donald Trump, and the U.S. media to “denigrate President Biden’s candidacy and the Democratic Party” through the promotion of tailored “narratives,” the U.S. intelligence community has concluded, according to a declassified report released by the Office of the Director of Nationa...

Dr. Robert W. Gehl, F. Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication at Louisiana Tech, and colleague Sean Lawson, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, recently presented research based on their forthcoming book, Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication, to a Department of Defense-sponsored speaker series, the SMA (Strategic Multilayered Assessment) Speaker Series. Gehl and Lawson presented their concept of “masspersonal social engineering” — a mixture of hacking and propaganda pr...

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace January 26, 2021 Source: Getty Summary:  When combating influence operations, focusing on discouraging misleading digital market techniques is a more versatile, effective strategy than focusing on whether foreign or domestic actors are involved. Related Media and Tools If you enjoyed reading this, subscribe for more! Thank you! About the Project The Lines in the Sand paper series, produced by Carnegie’s Partnership on Countering Influence Operations, uses multiple perspectives to analyze difficult policy questions and key challenges related to com...

Advertisement A Twitter account supposedly linked to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei posted what appeared to be a death threat to former U.S. President Donald Trump. While the account stands suspended at the time of filing this article, the inflammatory tweet in Farsi seems to be calling for “vengeance” against a golf-playing individual resembling Trump for his decision to assassinate top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qasem Soleimani last January. Not really. The story – which was reported by the BBC as well as Agence France-Presse on January 22 – rested on a fake a...