The Onion on Google Map Surveillance
May 20 2022“Google Maps Adds Shortcuts through Houses of People Google Knows Aren’t Home Right Now.” Excellent satire.
Read moreSurveillance by Driverless Car
May 12 2022San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras.
Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm.
“This is...
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ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency
May 11 2022Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US:
When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely...
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Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer FinFisher Shuts Down
April 6 2022FinFisher has shut down operations. This is the spyware company whose products were used, among other things, to spy on Turkish and Bahraini political opposition.
Read moreStalking with an Apple Watch
March 30 2022The malicious uses of these technologies are scary:
Police reportedly arrived on the scene last week and found the man crouched beside the woman’s passenger side door. According to...
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Using Radar to Read Body Language
March 8 2022Yet another method of surveillance:
Radar can detect you moving closer to a computer and entering its personal space. This might mean the computer can then choose to perform...
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Vulnerability in Stalkerware Apps
March 2 2022TechCrunch is reporting — but not describing in detail — a vulnerability in a series of stalkerware apps that exposes personal information of the victims. The vulnerability isn’t in...
Read moreBypassing Apple’s AirTag Security
February 23 2022A Berlin-based company has developed an AirTag clone that bypasses Apple’s anti-stalker security systems. Source code for these AirTag clones is available online.
So now we have several problems...
Read morePossible Government Surveillance of the Otter.ai Transcription App
February 17 2022A reporter interviews a Uyghur human-rights advocate, and uses the Otter.ai transcription app. The next day, I received an odd note from Otter.ai, the automated transcription app that I had...
Read moreSecret CIA Data Collection Program
February 15 2022Two US senators claim that the CIA has been running an unregulated — and almost certainly illegal — mass surveillance program on Americans. The senator’s statement. Some declassified information from...
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