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Chrome extensions spying on 37M users' browsing data https://qcontinuum.substack.com/p/spying-chrome-extensions-287-extensions-495

FYI: 🟠 Bitcoin whales have accumulated 40,000 BTC during the recent drop. Did you? Source: https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/2020852433468195186?s=20

Another GitHub outage in the same day https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd

AT&T, Verizon blocking release of Salt Typhoon security assessment reports (🔥 Score: 156+ in 3 hours) Link: https://readhacker.news/s/6MjSt Comments: https://readhacker.news/c/6MjSt

GitHub Is Down https://github.com/

JUST IN - Discord to globally require a bio-metric face scan or ID verification for full access next month to protect "teen safety." Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/6f0x6k32sc/ @disclosetv

Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/05/substack-confirms-data-breach-affecting-email-addresses-and-phone-numbers/

Flock CEO calls Deflock a "terrorist organization" [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZGrDz7PU

Anthropic is Down https://updog.ai/status/anthropic

Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI https://rentahuman.ai

Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-starlink-updates-privacy-policy-230853500.html

NEW - Head of the U.S. cyber defense agency CISA, Madhu Gottumukkala, uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT, triggering a DHS security review. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/v3uts2zxjh/ @disclosetv

ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s168

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/

UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns

NOW - UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood: "A hundred years ago, fingerprinting was decried as curtailing our civil liberties, but today we could not imagine policing without it. I have no doubt the same will prove true of facial recognition technology in the years to come." @disclosetv

400 hours… Iran has now been under a total nationwide internet blackout for over 400 hours, with almost all calls, texts, and other methods of outside communication having been entirely blocked by authorities since early January.

Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/microsoft-gave-fbi-keys-to-unlock-bitlocker-encrypted-data/