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Flight Risk

Inside the Black Box of Predictive Travel Surveillance

Behind the scenes, companies and governments are feeding a trove of data about international travelers into opaque AI tools that aim to predict who’s safe—and who’s a threat.

Caitlin Chandler

Bad Signal

Secret Phone Surveillance Tech Was Likely Deployed at 2024 DNC

Dhruv Mehrotra

Overexposed

Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location

Joseph Cox

No Kidding

Rumble Among 15 Targets of Texas Attorney General’s Child Privacy Probe

Paresh Dave

B4D-N3W5

License Plate Readers Are Leaking Real-Time Video Feeds and Vehicle Data

Matt Burgess and Dhruv Mehrotra

Security Roundup

Apple May Owe You $20 in a Siri Privacy Lawsuit Settlement

Andrew Couts, Andy Greenberg, and Lily Hay Newman

Looking Back

Hey, Maybe It's Time to Delete Some Old Chat Histories

Lily Hay Newman

Year in Review

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2024

WIRED Staff

Flying High

The Paper Passport Is Dying

Matt Burgess

Magic Words

You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family

Matt Burgess

Security Roundup

Mystery Drone Sightings Lead to FAA Ban Despite No Detected Threats

Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman, and Andrew Couts

Security Roundup

Microsoft’s AI Recall Tool Is Still Sucking Up Credit Card and Social Security Numbers

Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg, and Andrew Couts

WIRED World

Worry About Misuse of AI, Not Superintelligence

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor

Seek and Destroy

A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections

Lily Hay Newman

Crossing a Line

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra

Log Off

He Got Banned From X. Now He Wants to Help You Escape, Too

Andy Greenberg

Clear Cut

Top US Consumer Watchdog Has a Plan to Fight Predatory Data Brokers

Dell Cameron and Andrew Couts

Counter Spy

Are You Being Tracked by an AirTag? Here’s How to Check

Reece Rogers

Cashing In

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

Andy Greenberg

FUBAR

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

Dhruv Mehrotra and Dell Cameron

Workarounds

Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers

Lily Hay Newman

Security Roundup

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, and Andrew Couts

Follower Count

ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won

Caroline Haskins