DIRNSA Fired
April 7 2025In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying...
Read moreRayhunter: Device to Detect Cellular Surveillance
March 8 2025The EFF has created an open-source hardware tool to detect IMSI catchers: fake cell phone towers that are used for mass surveillance of an area. It runs on a $20...
Read moreAtlas of Surveillance
February 18 2025The EFF has released its Atlas of Surveillance, which documents police surveillance technology across the US.
Read moreThe Scale of Geoblocking by Nation
November 22 2024Interesting analysis:
We introduce and explore a little-known threat to digital equality and freedomwebsites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions. U.S. policy prioritizes internet freedom and...
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Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant
November 21 2024This feels important: The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on phones. Because users agreed to an opaque...
Read moreMapping License Plate Scanners in the US
November 13 2024DeFlock is a crowd-sourced project to map license plate scanners. It only records the fixed scanners, of course. The mobile scanners on cars are not mapped. The post Mapping License Plate...
Read moreAre Automatic License Plate Scanners Constitutional?
October 24 2024An advocacy groups is filing a Fourth Amendment challenge against automatic license plate readers.
“The City of Norfolk, Virginia, has installed a network of cameras that make it functionally...
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The Present and Future of TV Surveillance
August 27 2024Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.
Read moreTake a Selfie Using a NY Surveillance Camera
August 23 2024This site will let you take a selfie with a New York City traffic surveillance camera. EDITED TO ADD: BoingBoing post.
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