The Trump administration takes national security leaks very seriously when it's time to bully and intimidate reporters. Not so much when classified documents are piled up in the Mar-a-Lago bathrooms.

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

Washington Post reporter’s home searched by FBI, devices seized

Hannah Natanson, a reporter for The Washington Post, was the target of a federal search warrant on her home in …

I am trying to give people useful advice on how to keep their devices safe, but I don't know how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.

ProPublica

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said ...

In addition to its internet blackout, the Iranian government is jamming Starlink to prevent news protests and crackdowns from getting out:

Rest of World

Iran crippled Starlink and why the rest of the world should worry

The service became synonymous with censorship-proof connectivity. Iran has just proved that assumption wrong.

This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/1qa3pmm/boxed_in_by_ice/?share_id=yENO8ZsExaP3fz058MD_f&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Sometimes I read the threads that experienced activists write about how to behave at protests because it reminds me that the kinds of replies I get when I give digital privacy/security advice aren't just for me.

We are 9 days into 2026 and my New Years' Resolution to just let people be wrong on the internet is already is truly testing the limits of my willpower.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards.

404 Media

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phone...

Ten years ago, if someone had told me that tech policy bloggers would be calling for ICE to be abolished, I would have thought it very unlikely. "Abolish ICE" is an increasingly mainstream and extremely correct position.

Techdirt

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder

Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ende...