The Countersign https://thecountersign.org/ Reporting on power and money, with surveillance and technology as home turf. Every story publishes its sources. en-us House members reported more than 1,000 trades over a month late https://thecountersign.org/stories/house-stock-trades-filed-late/ https://thecountersign.org/stories/house-stock-trades-filed-late/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sam Calder We read every electronic trade report filed with the House since January 2025. Two in five of the members who file them reported at least one trade late, and the House doesn’t publish who paid the late fee or who was excused. Whoop’s terms, not its privacy policy, let it train AI on members’ data https://thecountersign.org/stories/whoop-ai-training-terms/ https://thecountersign.org/stories/whoop-ai-training-terms/ Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT Sam Calder Whoop’s chief executive says the company is building its own foundation models on 50 billion hours of members’ physiological data. We traced Whoop’s legal documents through archived copies: the explicit right to train AI was written into its terms in October 2025, after years of licenses that never mentioned it, and none of the settings Whoop describes is said to switch it off.