Surveillance News
We’ve seen malicious government cyberweapons leaked out of the National Security Agency (NSA) and injected via ransomware, but security researchers recently found government spyware squatting in plain sight, pretending to be harmless vanilla apps on Google’s Play store. This time around, the malware doesn’t come from the NSA. Rather, it alegedly... Read More »
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"Stalkerware" apps let abusers monitor their partner's phones and track their locations—without them knowing. When you think of “stalkerware,” what comes to mind is probably a spy-movie hacker planting chips on shoes or placing tiny video cameras on flies that hover around their targets. In reality, however, the stalkerware industry is much more... Read More »
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Pennsylvania Superior Court determined last week that video images can be used in the trial for a nanny accused of shoving and striking a child. The appellate court also ruled that audio must be omitted from the recording of Beth Ann Mason, who was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child.... Superior... Read More »
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A former firefighter received a suspended jail sentence and was ordered to pay a $1,500 fine after secretly recording a fire department meeting. The conviction stems from an investigation conducted by the Queen Anne’s County State’s Attorney’s Office into the planting of electronic recording devices inside the Crumpton Volunteer Fire Department.... Read More »
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Just how much are the police entitled to know about us.... Twenty years ago, we had a lot more privacy than we do today. Conversations vanished into the air as the very words were spoken. Only a time traveler could turn back the clock to learn whether we’d been at the scene of a robbery, a mosque, or an abortion clinic on any particular date — or who... Read More »
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A North Providence man admitted Wednesday to plotting to track his ex-girlfriend by placing a GPS monitoring device on her car in January 2018. John Mitchell, 33, of Smith Street; and his accomplice, Leah Stoddard, 38, of 68 Beach Point Drive, East Providence, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor conspiracy and installing a tracking device without the... Read More »
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Can immigration listen to your phone? In an effort to detect any lies or any breaches of immigration laws, can the officers wiretap your phone and listen in without your consent? We take a look at the rules governing wiretaps and the possibility of immigration wiretapping your phone. Amidst the heightened vigilance by the government against illegal... Read More »
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In a strongly worded opinion addressing New York’s Freedom of Information Law, a Manhattan Supreme Court justice has ruled that the New York City Police Department must release information to a police protest group about whether the department used technology to monitor or interrupt their cellphones during protests. The decision from Justice Arlene... Read More »
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Though narco-trafficking has long relied on old technologies like boats, trucks and tunnels, both dealers and United States authorities have started adapting to the digital age. That became clear last week when prosecutors at the drug trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo, suddenly unveiled the cyber-spy tale of a... Read More »
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An ex-prosecutor imprisoned for illegally wiretapping a colleague and a cop she suspected of having an affair is arguing she can’t be sued just because the scandal became water cooler fodder.... Former Brooklyn Assistant DA Stephanie .... Lenich was sentenced to a year and a day behind bars in February, after admitting she forged judges’ signatures... Read More »
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