The two new types of drone, which Russia has used in five drone attacks in the last two to three weeks including an overnight strike on Thursday, are produced from materials like foam plastic and plywood, the official told Reuters.

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Wyden, a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence member, sent a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday inquiring about how foreign officials sought data from Google and Apple for surveillance purposes. He also briefly mentioned that phone notifications, or the interface alerts on a phone’s front screen, were used to spy on users. Wyden claimed that phones running on Android and iOS would have records of what notifications a user might receive, offering insight into users’ everyday lives, and that government officials have requested this data.

Push notification practices place Apple and Google “in a unique position to facilitate government surveillance of how users are using particular apps,” Wyden wrote. He urged the DOJ to “repeal or modify any policies” that hindered discussion of push notification spying.

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Source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/foreign-governments-spy-on-apple-and-google-users-through-push-notifications-ron-wyden-says

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Wray is expected to cite threats from Iran and China to argue that the sweeping surveillance powers authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire at the end of this month, are vital to U.S. national security.

“Stripping the FBI of its 702 authorities would be a form of unilateral disarmament,” Wray will tell the Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee during an oversight hearing, according to excerpts of his testimony released by the FBI.

The surveillance power of the U.S. government has come under scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers on both the right and left in recent years, particularly the ability of federal law enforcement to search for data on U.S. citizens picked up as part of surveillance of foreign targets.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-chief-urge-senate-panel-renew-us-global-surveillance-power-2023-12-05/

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The U.S. military’s chief information officer (CIO) and former CIA deputy director John Shermansaid his office will assume control of all 5G-related activities in the U.S. military and expand the military’s 5G pilot programs — a move critics said could lead to increased surveillance of U.S. citizens.

The move will shift the Pentagon’s 5G efforts from the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Heidi Shyu, to Sherman’s office.

The transition will officially take effect on Oct. 1, but Sherman said his office has “already been working left seat, right seat with research and engineering on this, [in] a very close partnership with Honorable Heidi Shyu and her team.”

Sherman also wants to expand the military’s use of 5G, but he did not say exactly what that expansion may look like.

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