Opsec Cyber surveillance Archives - Page 8 of 11

Category Archives: surveillance

China’s Olympics App Is Horribly Insecure

January 21 2022 By Bruce Schneier in China, Privacy, Security, surveillance

China is mandating that athletes download and use a health and travel app when they attend the Winter Olympics next month. Citizen Lab examined the app and found...

San Francisco Police Illegally Spying on Protesters

January 20 2022 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

Last summer, the San Francisco police illegally used surveillance cameras at the George Floyd protests. The EFF is suing the police:

This surveillance invaded the privacy of protesters, targeted...
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Using Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions

January 13 2022 By Bruce Schneier in espionage, FBI, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation.

New documents...

Apple AirTags Are Being Used to Track People and Cars

December 31 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Apple, Privacy, Security, surveillance

This development suprises no one who has been paying attention:

Researchers now believe AirTags, which are equipped with Bluetooth technology, could be revealing a more widespread problem of tech-enabled...
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How the FBI Gets Location Information

October 27 2021 By Bruce Schneier in FBI, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.

The European Parliament Voted to Ban Remote Biometric Surveillance

October 11 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Privacy, Security, surveillance

It’s not actually banned in the EU yet — the legislative process is much more complicated than that — but it’s a step: a total ban on biometric...

Surveillance of the Internet Backbone

August 25 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cybersecurity, Forensics, Privacy, Security, surveillance

Vice has an article about how data brokers sell access to the Internet backbone. This is netflow data. It’s useful for cybersecurity forensics, but can also be used...