Surveillance News
Government requests for the mass disclosure of every caller who connected to a particular cellphone tower have spiked during the first half of 2017, according to Verizon’s latest transparency report. Law enforcement seek so-called tower dumps to try to identify a suspect in a crime, compelling tower operators to provide the phone numbers of all devices... Read More »
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For decades, Americans have forfeited their privacy rights for a false sense of safety. Broad, sweeping surveillance law have given the federal government carte blanche in the realm of surveillance. Thankfully, a recently introduced bipartisan Senate bill would restore some vital protections to Americans’ privacy. The ECPA Modernization Act, introduced... Read More »
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A single threat actor has aggressively bombarded Android users with more than 4,000 spyware apps since February.... Behind the scenes, Soniac had the ability to surreptitiously record audio, take phones, make calls, send text messages, and retrieve logs, contacts, and information about Wi-Fi access points.... "What's commonly seen in all SonicSpy... Read More »
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Researchers at the security firm Lookout have identified a family of malicious smartphone apps, referred to as SonicSpy. At least three versions of the malware, which is able to remotely control infected phones, made it onto Google’s Play store. Anyone who installs the compromised apps will find they have full messaging functionality. But in the... Read More »
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A federal appeals court panel has ruled that the wiretapping practices of some Arizona prosecutors violated U.S. law. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel found that Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery did not personally review and approve electronic-surveillance warrants as required and instead relied on a state statute that is less... Read More »
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BlackBerry said on Thursday it has won the right to sell tools for encrypting phone calls and text messages to the US federal government, garnering an endorsement from the National Security Agency for the products.... The fear that eavesdroppers are listening in to government communications has risen sharply in recent years, with an unencrypted mobile... Read More »
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First came the revelation that prominent Mexican anti-corruption fighters, human rights activists and other government critics were targeted for surveillance with sophisticated spyware sold to the Mexican government for combating crime and terrorism. Now comes the shocking addendum that an international team charged with investigating the disappearance of... Read More »
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The trial against a Broward man accused of killing his wife then claiming she disappeared continued Monday. As his murder trial enters week two, the jury is hearing details on how Cid Torrez relationship with his estranged wife Vilet was unraveling before she vanished.... Roman testified Torrez told him he secretly installed spyware on Vilet’s phone... Read More »
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It took US authorities a single wiretap order to intercept and record over 3 million phone calls and messages last year, the Wiretap Report 2016, published by the United States Courts, revealed. The intercepts were carried out over the course of two months by an undisclosed government agency.... Read Full Article... Read More »
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The number of wiretaps authorized by the courts in 2015 rocketed compared to the year before, says a new report. According to the annual wiretap report released on Thursday, which outlines how many real-time intercept requests were submitted by state and federal law enforcement agencies, the courts allowed 4,148 wiretaps during the last calendar year, up... Read More »
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