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ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

DHS subpoenaed REI for all Minneapolis-area customers who bought a specific green beanie since 2024, part of an investigation into 39 ICE protest defendants.

Court filings allege Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed REI in March for transaction records of all persons in the greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area who purchased a specific dark green beanie since 2024. The subpoena was one of 92 sent in a federal case against 39 people, including journalists, who attended an ICE protest at a church. Companies responded differently: T-Mobile handed over six months of a defendant's call and text logs, Google refused a request for YouTube viewers, Reddit withdrew after a First Amendment objection, and Meta pushed back on at least one summons. The 1509 customs summonses require no judicial oversight, and the total number issued under the Trump administration is unknown.

WIRED · Security · 12d agoPolicy & legal

Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance

Senator Ron Wyden asked the NSA to update public guidance on VPN configurations, questioning single-hop designs and services like Tor.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter Wednesday to NSA director Gen. Joshua Rudd requesting updated public guidance on VPN best practices for Americans facing advanced foreign threats, including government personnel, contractors, and journalists. The letter highlights limitations such as decrypted traffic at single-hop termination servers, metadata like timestamps enabling nation-state profiling, and asks the NSA to assess multi-hop architectures, random delays, cryptographic padding, and specific services including Apple Private Relay, Nym, and Tor.

Ars Technica · Security · 13d agoPolicy & legal

Senators press TikTok over withholding of safety features for some users

Sens. Blackburn and Blumenthal demand TikTok explain why safety features were withheld from about 10% of users, following a teenager's suicide.

Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter demanding answers from TikTok after a Bloomberg report showed the company withheld algorithmic safety changes from a control group of about 10% of users, including 16-year-old Chase Nasca, who died by suicide in February 2022. An internal review found the teen viewed more than 7,500 videos in his final two weeks, 73% with themes of sadness or personal struggles. The senators tied the case to the Kids Online Safety Act, which advanced out of the Senate Commerce Committee on August 5, and set a September 1 deadline for responses.

The Record · 27d agoPolicy & legal

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