Top Hackernews posts from theintercept.com

1. Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent (theintercept.com)
   818 points by Pakdef about 2 years ago | 510 comments
2. Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE (theintercept.com)
   769 points by rukshn about 2 years ago | 417 comments
3. What You Should Know Before Leaking a Zoom Meeting (theintercept.com)
   735 points by danso over 3 years ago | 211 comments
4. Leaked grant proposal details high-risk coronavirus research (theintercept.com)
   725 points by BellLabradors almost 3 years ago | 461 comments
5. Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor” (theintercept.com)
   693 points by enraged_camel over 2 years ago | 445 comments
6. Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation (theintercept.com)
   431 points by amadeuspagel almost 2 years ago | 716 comments
7. The U.S. Treasury is buying private app data to target and investigate people (theintercept.com)
   389 points by _-david-_ almost 3 years ago | 366 comments
8. OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare" (theintercept.com)
   387 points by cdme 8 months ago | 265 comments
9. Getting my personal data from Amazon was weeks of confusion and tedium (theintercept.com)
   362 points by Ansil849 over 2 years ago | 182 comments
10. NYC jails want to ban physical mail, then privatize scanning of digital versions (theintercept.com)
    328 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 397 comments
11. SVB Used Former McCarthy Staffers to Weaken Regulations, Lobby FDIC (theintercept.com)
    325 points by cratermoon over 1 year ago | 187 comments
12. How Iran can track and control protesters’ phones: hacked documents (theintercept.com)
    305 points by wstrange almost 2 years ago | 103 comments
13. Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content (theintercept.com)
    292 points by ilamont 8 months ago | 348 comments
14. FBI groomed a 16-year-old with “brain development issues” to become a terrorist (theintercept.com)
    288 points by Jimmc414 over 1 year ago | 98 comments
15. The FBI tried to ambush my source (theintercept.com)
    272 points by giuliomagnifico over 2 years ago | 147 comments
16. Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack (theintercept.com)
    259 points by danso over 3 years ago | 262 comments
17. Whistleblowers expose corruption in EPA Chemical Safety Office (theintercept.com)
    253 points by voisin about 3 years ago | 62 comments
18. A CBP contract shows the risks in connecting your vehicle and your smartphone (theintercept.com)
    246 points by jbegley over 3 years ago | 249 comments
19. LexisNexis is selling personal data to ICE so it can try to predict crimes (theintercept.com)
    236 points by arkadiyt about 1 year ago | 110 comments
20. U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr (theintercept.com)
    231 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 239 comments
21. Whistleblowers take note: don’t trust cropping tools (theintercept.com)
    229 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 138 comments
22. Police are getting DNA data from people who think they opted out (theintercept.com)
    228 points by ilamont about 1 year ago | 204 comments
23. Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data (theintercept.com)
    216 points by mikece about 2 years ago | 128 comments
24. Titanpointe: The NSA’s spy hub in New York, hidden in plain sight (2016) (theintercept.com)
    200 points by KoftaBob over 2 years ago | 75 comments
25. Facebook Dangerous Individuals and Organizations List (Reproduced Snapshot) (theintercept.com)
    183 points by 1cvmask almost 3 years ago | 123 comments
26. Kissinger's killing fields (theintercept.com)
    182 points by l3mure over 1 year ago | 162 comments
27. New group attacking iPhone encryption backed by US political dark-money network (theintercept.com)
    182 points by mikece 12 months ago | 38 comments
28. Documents show Amazon is aware drivers pee in bottles and even defecate enroute (theintercept.com)
    177 points by tareqak over 3 years ago | 109 comments
29. Counterterrorism internet surveillance is being retargeted at sex workers (theintercept.com)
    154 points by mathandstuff about 1 year ago | 54 comments
30. More Than 150 Organizations Call to Close Guantánamo on 21st Anniversary (theintercept.com)
    152 points by sfusato over 1 year ago | 103 comments
31. Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company (theintercept.com)
    149 points by DocFeind about 3 years ago | 57 comments
32. Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by cutting power (theintercept.com)
    146 points by DyslexicAtheist over 3 years ago | 262 comments
33. Surveillance Footage of Tesla Crash on SF’s Bay Bridge (theintercept.com)
    132 points by atchoo over 1 year ago | 198 comments
34. The FBI Has Collected DNA Profiles for 21M People (theintercept.com)
    128 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 68 comments
35. Secret Service Deleted Jan 6 Text Messages After Officials Requested Them (theintercept.com)
    108 points by cainxinth about 2 years ago | 33 comments
36. Phthalates Threaten Humanity’s Ability to Reproduce (theintercept.com)
    98 points by mustafa_pasi over 3 years ago | 29 comments
37. Ephemeral usernames safeguard privacy and make Signal harder to subpoena (theintercept.com)
    97 points by georgecmu 7 months ago | 65 comments
38. NSA and CIA spied on by using data harvesting advertiser networks (theintercept.com)
    95 points by penner_im_auto over 2 years ago | 11 comments
39. Cruise Knew Its Self-Driving Cars Had Problems Recognizing Children (theintercept.com)
    89 points by oldgradstudent 11 months ago | 69 comments
40. Amazon Co-Owns Deportation Airline Implicated in Alleged Torture of Immigrants (theintercept.com)
    82 points by colanderman over 2 years ago | 9 comments
41. The Pentagon uses a secret program to wage proxy wars (theintercept.com)
    80 points by jbegley about 2 years ago | 93 comments
42. Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel (theintercept.com)
    79 points by giuliomagnifico over 3 years ago | 43 comments
43. As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900k AI Job (theintercept.com)
    77 points by marban about 1 year ago | 161 comments
44. World Bank Helped Cover Up Sex Abuse at For-Profit School Chain (theintercept.com)
    76 points by Geekette 11 months ago | 12 comments
45. Documents show scientist calling lab leak likely after paper claiming opposite (theintercept.com)
    73 points by nradov about 1 year ago | 18 comments
46. Elon Musk caves to pressure from India to remove BBC doc critical of Modi (theintercept.com)
    72 points by nickthegreek over 1 year ago | 11 comments
47. Atlanta Police Arrest Bail Fund Organizers (theintercept.com)
    72 points by panic over 1 year ago | 9 comments
48. The lab-leak theory is looking stronger by the day (theintercept.com)
    67 points by jessaustin over 2 years ago | 60 comments
49. New York Times doesn’t want its stories archived (theintercept.com)
    67 points by kakokeko about 1 year ago | 84 comments
50. LexisNexis to Provide Giant Database of Personal Information to ICE (theintercept.com)
    65 points by ilamont over 3 years ago | 24 comments
51. Digital Security Tips to Prevent the Cops from Ruining Your Trip Abroad (theintercept.com)
    65 points by chillycurve over 1 year ago | 36 comments
52. I worked in federal prison sweatshops for 23 cents an hour (theintercept.com)
    65 points by zdw about 1 year ago | 46 comments
53. FBI Warned Sikhs in the U.S. After Killing of Canadian Activist (theintercept.com)
    65 points by ironyman 12 months ago | 1 comments
54. Major Tea Party Group Was Backed by Billionaire Donors, Hacked Documents Reveal (theintercept.com)
    63 points by jbegley about 3 years ago | 41 comments
55. Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate Fraud (theintercept.com)
    62 points by webdoodle almost 3 years ago | 8 comments
56. Cheering Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Gavin Newsom Doesn’t Mention He’s a Client (theintercept.com)
    62 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 44 comments
57. A Billionaire-Funded Website Is Trying to “Cancel” University Professors (theintercept.com)
    61 points by KittenInABox about 3 years ago | 20 comments
58. New York Times Doxxes Source By Publishing Passport Number (theintercept.com)
    61 points by jbegley 9 months ago | 10 comments
59. NSA Orders Employees to Spy on the World “With Dignity and Respect” (theintercept.com)
    60 points by arkadiyt about 1 year ago | 14 comments
60. Fossil Fuel Apologists Crafted Lies Blaming Wind Power for Texas Blackouts (theintercept.com)
    59 points by wombatmobile over 3 years ago | 23 comments
61. The Taliban Have Seized U.S. Military Biometrics Devices (theintercept.com)
    59 points by edeion about 3 years ago | 65 comments
62. Israeli Diplomat Pressured UNC to Remove Teacher Who Criticized Israel (theintercept.com)
    58 points by anon1385 almost 3 years ago | 22 comments
63. Orange County Prosecutors Operate “Vast, Secretive” Genetic Surveillance Program (theintercept.com)
    58 points by newman8r about 3 years ago | 12 comments
64. A CIA Officer's Murder Was Used to Silence the Agency’s Greatest Critic (theintercept.com)
    53 points by Amorymeltzer over 1 year ago | 1 comments
65. Lab That Created Risky Avian Flu Had “Unacceptable” Biosafety Protocols (theintercept.com)
    51 points by barry-cotter about 1 year ago | 8 comments
66. FBI Questioned Michigan Senate Aide About Tear Gas Bill (theintercept.com)
    50 points by jbegley over 3 years ago | 12 comments