Surveillance News
In February, New Times reported that the Miami-Dade Police Department wanted to renew its long-standing contract with the Nebraska company PenLink, which sells extremely powerful cell-phone-tracking technology to local cops. At the time, information about the sort of tech MDPD was using to surveil its citizens was fairly sparse, especially because... Read More »
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Google has issued a security alert, warning millions of Android phone users about a vulnerability that the NSO Group is already exploiting. The NSO Group is the notorious Israeli tech firm that produces surveillance tools, targeting iOS and Android devices. These sophisticated spyware tools exploit zero-day flaws that are undisclosed and unreported,... Read More »
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It’s easier than ever for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to spy on you, your contacts, and all of your activity. If you thought that uninstalling a few controversial apps may solve the problem, think again. More than 70 percent of the world’s cellphones are made in China, per a 2015 report in The Economist. Most notorious are Huawei and ZTE... Read More »
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The Department of Justice published an open letter to Facebook from international law enforcement partners from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia in response to the company’s publicly announced plans to implement end-to-end-encryption across its messaging services.... Addressed to Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, the letter requests... Read More »
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Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex has begun a legal process against the owners of The Sun, Daily Mirror and non-existing News of the World due to the anticipated phone-hacking. This was reported by the BBC. "We confirm that a claim has been issued by the Duke of Sussex," a spokeswoman for News Group Newspapers (NGN) - the publishers of the Sun and the... Read More »
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a crucial vulnerability in SIM cards that can be used by the ‘bad actors’ to compromise mobile phones and spy on their activity by simply sending them an SMS. Dublin-based firm AdaptiveMobile Security named the flaw ‘SimJacker’ and claimed that a spyware vendor has exploited the same flaw for more than... Read More »
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The former West Chester University theater major charged with hiding his cellphone in bathrooms in several locations, including one at the school’s performing arts center, to record women in various stages of undress has pleaded guilty to committing the crimes..... A WCU officer was able to take the man, later identified as Yannuzzi by his student ID,... Read More »
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A woman has filed a civil suit against a former member of the 104th Fighter Wing of the Air National Guard, saying she has suffered emotional distress and "a diminished capacity to enjoy life" in the years since he used a hidden camera at Barnes Air National Guard Base to record explicit images of her. Former Tech Sgt. Jason Venne, 37, pleaded guilty in... Read More »
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According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in December 2017, the principal of a public school district in Broken Bow reported to the FBI that someone was sending persistent and escalating threats of violence to a teacher working for the school district. The person issuing the threats was at times impersonating other teachers in the... Read More »
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As amazing as most modern technology is, we can't ignore the fact that some people don't always use it with the best intentions. In fact, some essential pieces of tech that we use every day -- like cameras and GPS -- have led to an ecosystem of so-called "stalkerware" for criminals and creeps to take advantage of. "Stalkerware," at its core, is just... Read More »
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