JUST IN - U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation's $36.7 trillion debt.

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NEW - 4chan users expose a data breach on "dating safety app", Tea with photo ID, images and DMs posted online. Tea acknowledges the breach and are working with cybersecurity experts to secure their systems, with no evidence yet of further data exposure.

Tea, number 1 on the U.S. app store this week, is a women-only app for anonymously reviewing men, to ensure women can be "safe" and "identify red flags," with critics saying it raises concerns about potential defamation, privacy violations, and misuse for gossip or revenge.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/v4lwx7sa4i/

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JUST IN - UK Home Office to assemble an elite team of police officers to monitor social media for "anti-migrant sentiment" in a new investigations unit to "flag early signs of potential civil unrest."

https://www.disclose.tv/id/fgsp0dbeuz/

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Disabling telemetry in ByteDance's VSCode fork increases data sent to its server https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a

Bitchat now on IOS.

JUST IN - U.S. House Judiciary Committee launches investigation into Spotify over concerns the platform is censoring free speech.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/4scoexoqqh/

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NEW - A second Tea app "breach," from a separate database, exposes over 1million sensitive private messages, phone numbers, and push notification access to all Tea users.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/bwsmpfgqri/

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JUST IN - YouTube will begin using AI to monitor user behavior and psychology to determine whether viewers in the U.S. are over or under the age of 18.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/ycfvc2xs6a/

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OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/

Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/

TeaOnHer, a rival Tea app for men, is leaking users' personal data
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ICYMI - U.S. Homeland Security will acquire advanced iris biometric scanning technology from Bi² Technologies for ICE to identify individuals "in seconds from virtually anywhere."

Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/lpbjijvrsa/

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NEW - AI powered radar can spy on phone calls from 10 feet away exposing new privacy risks.

Researchers using mmWave radar, the same radar thats in self driving cars and 5G, teamed with AI decoded vibrations with a 60% transcribe accuracy of what is being said.

Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/4vipu6a93f/

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Conversations remotely detected from cell phone vibrations, researchers report https://www.psu.edu/news/engineering/story/conversations-remotely-detected-cell-phone-vibrations-researchers-report

JUST IN: Google drops plan to ban non-custodial crypto wallets from Play Store following backlash.

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UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new facial recognition vans https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/uk_expands_police_facial_recognition/

Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/08/meta-accessed-womens-health-data-from-flo-app-without-consent-says-court

The U.S. grid is so weak, the AI race may be over https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/data-centers-china-grid-us-infrastructure/