# What's News? Back to work!

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Podcast: [Technology Pill](https://stenobird.com/podcast/technology-pill-560921)
Published: 2025-09-19T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/technology-pill/episodes/Whats-News--Back-to-work-e38edi2
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## Resource

This week we're back to discussing stories that have been in the news over the past few months - in particular the stories that have stayed with us and kept us thinking about them. Links - Expansion of ICE biometrics - ⁠Dean Cain joins ICE ⁠ - ICE access to medicaid data - Industry Day at the US Customs and Border Protection - Inquiry by Microsoft - Investor concerns about Microsoft use by Israeli government - Israeli government use of Google services - Data sovereignty and Data Localisation across Africa and Asia - Meta violates California's wiretap law - PI's original app data investigation - PI's most recent look at period apps - Amazon Alexa ads? - Grok advertisers - Pew researchers study Google AI summaries - 404 media's experience with Google AI - Cloudflare experimenting with pay per crawl feature for AI companies - You can donate to PI! - Pilot programme - drones in Florida schools - Axon's ethics board resignations over taser drones - UK facial recogntion database searches - ICO complaint

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