News & Articles By Willow Tohi
05/22/2025
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By Willow Tohi
China’s DeepSeek AI sparks global tech race fears amid claims of revolutionary breakthrough
New claims about China’s DeepSeek-R2 AI system suggest it operates on principles unknown in the West, potentially giving China a significant edge in AI technology. This has sparked debates and concerns among global tech leaders and policymakers about China’s growing AI dominance. The claims originated from an anonymous social media account, @iruletheworldmo, which asserts that […]
05/20/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Montana pioneers warrant requirement for law enforcement data purchases, closing “data broker loophole”
On May 5, Montana became the first state to close the “data broker loophole,” prohibiting law enforcement from buying sensitive personal data (e.g., location history, financial records) from third-party brokers without a warrant. The law prevents agencies from bypassing Fourth Amendment protections by purchasing data (e.g., from firms like Fog Data Science) instead of obtaining […]
05/19/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Swiss privacy pioneer Proton threatens exodus over “Russian-style” surveillance laws
Proton Technologies, the company behind Proton Mail and Proton VPN, warns it will leave Switzerland if proposed surveillance laws—modeled after Russia’s—force it to retain user data, violating its no-logs policy and encryption standards. The Swiss government’s amendments would extend data retention requirements to VPNs, messaging apps and social platforms, eroding user anonymity and Switzerland’s reputation […]
05/18/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Congress targets Chinese chip smuggling in bipartisan push to protect AI supremacy
Bipartisan lawmakers introduced the Chip Security Act on May 15 to block China from accessing advanced U.S. AI chips. Aims to close loopholes exploited by Chinese firms (e.g., Huawei, DeepSeek) to evade export controls. Key measures to strengthen enforcement include: real-time location tracking of chips to prevent unauthorized transfers; mandatory reporting of suspicious transactions by […]
05/15/2025
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By Willow Tohi
When the storm brings spies: How a top weather app became an agent of surveillance
The Weather Forecast—World Weather Accurate Radar app, developed by Chinese tech firm TCL, secretly collected sensitive user data (location, email, IMEI numbers) without consent, despite its popularity (10M+ downloads). The app auto-subscribed Brazilian users to paid third-party services (including adult content), leading to over 2.5 million blocked unauthorized transactions in 2018. Weather apps like AccuWeather, […]
05/14/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Bitcoin’s evolution beyond “digital gold”: Redefining monetary innovation in a shifting landscape
Bitcoin’s fixed 21 million supply contrasts with gold’s theoretically expandable reserves, offering provable digital scarcity for the first time in history. Bitcoin’s satoshis enable tiny transactions (e.g., fractions of a cent) without intermediaries, solving gold’s impracticality for small payments and fiat’s trust-based dilution risks. Bitcoin’s public blockchain allows real-time verification, unlike gold’s opaque audits (e.g., […]
05/13/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Google agrees to $1.375 billion Texas settlement over privacy violations, marking largest state-level data case win
Google agreed to pay $1.375 billion—the largest U.S. state privacy settlement—to resolve lawsuits accusing it of deceptive data practices, including tracking geolocation, biometrics and Incognito mode activity without proper consent. Google allegedly misled users by tracking location data even when settings were disabled; collecting voiceprints and facial geometry (e.g., via Google Photos) without explicit consent; […]
05/12/2025
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By Willow Tohi
AI breakthrough Aardvark Weather offers affordable forecasting for globally vulnerable regions
Researchers at the University of Cambridge developed Aardvark Weather, an AI-driven system that delivers faster, cheaper and high-accuracy weather predictions without relying on supercomputers, making it accessible to resource-limited regions. Unlike traditional supercomputer-based forecasting, Aardvark replaces complex numerical simulations with a single AI model trained on decades of global weather data, cutting computation time drastically […]
05/12/2025
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By Willow Tohi
Congress introduces bills to track AI chips and battle Chinese smuggling amid national security concerns
U.S. lawmakers are advancing two bills to combat China’s illicit acquisition of AI chips, including whistleblower incentives and real-time tracking mandates to close export control loopholes. The Stop Stealing Our Chips Act (co-sponsored by Sens. Rounds and Warner) offers whistleblowers 10-30% of penalties from confirmed sanctions violations, targeting smuggling networks funneling chips to China’s military. […]
05/11/2025
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By Willow Tohi
New federal identification standards for air travel set against lenient ballot requirements spark policy debate
Starting May 7, U.S. residents must present a REAL ID-compliant license, passport, or other federally approved ID for domestic air travel and federal facility access. Non-compliant travelers risk being denied boarding. The REAL ID Act (2005) was passed in response to 9/11 Commission recommendations to strengthen ID standards, requiring verification of birth certificates, Social Security […]
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