Surveillance

Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China

Human Rights Watch details mass surveillance and repression

Legal04 May 2023 | 56

Feds rethink warrantless search stats and – oh look, a huge drop in numbers

119,000 instances of homeland snooping as the power to do so comes under review

Security02 May 2023 | 20

Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog

Report says code has improved – and thousands could still end up falsely ID'd, argue privacy advocates

AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 39

NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules

Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General

Security31 Mar 2023 | 17

China crisis is a TikToking time bomb

Opinion ByteDance with the devil if you dare

Security27 Mar 2023 | 69

Cop warrant orders Ring to cough up footage from inside this guy's home

Don't say you weren't warned

Personal Tech08 Mar 2023 | 75

Dems offer ban on Feds using facial, voice recognition

Second time before Congress a charm?

AI + ML07 Mar 2023 | 7

Secret Service, ICE break the law over and over with fake cell tower spying

Investigations 'at risk' from sloppy surveillance uncovered by audit probe

Security04 Mar 2023 | 28

US teases more China tech sanctions, this time to deflate balloon-makers

State Dept already has one target, FBI is identifying sources of floating surveillance platform's components

Security10 Feb 2023 | 27

Australia gives made-in-China CCTV cams the boot

The usual suspects - Hikvision and Dahua - named as a risk to national security, prompting the usual denials

Security10 Feb 2023 | 37

Americans have the right to livestream police traffic stops … probably

Handy thing, that First Amendment. Now, about the Second …

Personal Tech09 Feb 2023 | 19

Cedars-Sinai hospital's website shares patient info with Meta, lawsuit claims

Facebook parent could then offer that data to other advertising clients, complaint alleges

Applications08 Feb 2023 | 8

French lawmakers say oui to Olympic video surveillance, but non for faces

Pas le visage, merci

Personal Tech01 Feb 2023 | 16

Happy Lunar New Year: Beijing warns of enhanced surveillance during celebrations

Censors are on the lookout for showering under a waterfall of money, overeating, and more conventional sins

Security20 Jan 2023 | 8

Seriously, what's with FBI, DEA vacuuming up people's money transfer records?

Warrantless surveillance branded illegal, said to unfairly target the poor, immigrants, minorities

Personal Tech18 Jan 2023 | 3

Canadian owes bosses for 'time theft' after work-tracking app sinks tribunal bid

She hoped to score thousands but laptop app had other ideas

Security13 Jan 2023 | 37

Raspberry Pi hires former spy gadget-maker who baked devices into surveillance ops

If he offers you a piece of the Chocolate Pi, be suspicious

Personal Tech09 Dec 2022 | 94

Amnesty International Canada claims attack by China-backed forces

Threat actors allegedly looking for contacts and monitoring org's future plans

Security07 Dec 2022 | 5

UK bans Chinese CCTV cameras on 'sensitive' government sites

Updated Agencies told to rip 'em off core networks and replace 'em whenever and wherever possible

Security25 Nov 2022 | 81

US Supreme Court asked if cops can plant spy cams around homes

ACLU argues for the Fourth

Personal Tech18 Nov 2022 | 104

Republican senators tell FTC to back off data security, surveillance rules

And they don't like the states' 'patchwork' privacy laws, either

Legal10 Nov 2022 | 24

China outlines plan for National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System

Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency, e-government, and surveillance

Software31 Oct 2022 | 4

Business can't make staff submit to video surveillance, says court

Chetu ordered to pay restitution for employee's unlawful termination

Personal Tech10 Oct 2022 | 76

How CIA betrayed informants with shoddy front websites built for covert comms

Top tip, don't give your secret login box the HTML form type 'password'

Research29 Sep 2022 | 37

US border cops harvest info from citizens' phones, build massive database

Texts, contacts, call logs, photos, and more centrally stored for years without a warrant in sight

Personal Tech15 Sep 2022 | 59

Amazon has repackaged surveillance capitalism as reality TV

Column Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all

Personal Tech24 Aug 2022 | 195

One to watch: Open-source code that measures your exposure to CCTV

Like a Geiger counter but for surveillance cameras

Applications04 Aug 2022 | 30

Beijing residents blast COVID surveillance device

Tracking bracelet rescinded in some areas after uproar and confusion on who dictated its use

Software15 Jul 2022 | 36

Amazon gave Ring video to cops without consent or warrant 11 times so far in 2022

Updated Got no time for that red tape in an emergency, says exec

Security14 Jul 2022 | 43

San Francisco cops want real-time access to private security cameras for surveillance

ACLU hits back at 'unprecedented power grab'

Security11 Jul 2022 | 44

Five accused of trying to silence China critics in US

Alleged campaign involved stalking via GPS and hidden cameras, fake interviews, confidential government data

Security07 Jul 2022 | 19

Calls for bans on Chinese CCTV makers Hikvision, Dahua expand

UK wants to follow US move to stop sales from equipment manufacturers

Security05 Jul 2022 | 51

San Francisco police use driverless cars for surveillance

In brief Plus: Tech giants commit $30m to open-source security, miscreants breach DEA portal, and US signs cybercrime treaty

Cyber-crime16 May 2022 | 18

How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency

Your US tax dollars at work

AI + ML14 May 2022 | 69

Logging and monitoring can be a form of bullying, and make for lousy infosec

Comment Surveillance is a poor starting point for your security strategy

PaaS + IaaS02 May 2022 | 71

Google bans third-party call-recording apps from Play Store

Apps pre-installed in the device will still be able to have call recording functionality

Applications22 Apr 2022 | 38

UK spy agencies sharing bulk personal data with foreign allies was legal, says court

Yes, that thing they've never publicly admitted they do

Security06 Apr 2022 | 22

Cambodia cans critics of its snoopy Internet Gateway, says every nation has one

Government says it’s just collecting tax, United Nations points to data harvesting and chilling effects on free speech

Security15 Feb 2022 | 29

Full-time internet surveillance comes to Cambodia this week

Locals fear sharing their views on new National Internet Gateway

Security14 Feb 2022 | 23

GCHQ was rebuked for ignoring spy law safeguards as pandemic hit Britain

Auditor IPCO flagged it up – but then approved 99.94% of state snooping

Security10 Jan 2022 | 21

US lawmakers want to put NSO Group, 3 other spyware makers out of business with fresh severe sanctions

Export controls aren't enough, Dems say: Bring on the Global Magnitsky Act

Security15 Dec 2021 | 16

Government-favoured child safety app warned it could violate the UK's Investigatory Powers Act with message-scanning tech

Redesigned SafeToNet feature highlights tech law mess

Security26 Nov 2021 | 63

New Zealand spooks say satellite snooping is obsolete – better intel is found elsewhere

Kiwis are done with dishes, and the Five Eyes alliance is cool with it

Security11 Nov 2021 | 18

UK schools slap a hold on facial scanning of children amid fierce criticism

'Consent cannot be truly freely given' says privacy campaigner

AI + ML26 Oct 2021 | 68

Reg scribe spends week being watched by government Bluetooth wristband, emerges to more surveillance

Feature Home quarantine week was the price for an overseas trip, ongoing observation is the price of COVID-19

Security19 Oct 2021 | 141

Judge in UK rules Amazon Ring doorbell audio recordings breach data protection laws

Relax, this isn't a binding precedent - but it puts down a marker

Legal13 Oct 2021 | 37

NSO Group's Pegasus malware was used to spy on Dubai princess's lawyers during child custody dispute

Updated Firm apparently terminated UAE's contract when it realised

Security07 Oct 2021 | 32

IKEA: Cameras were hidden in the ceiling above warehouse toilets for 'health and safety'

Spytech removed after staff outrage

Security01 Oct 2021 | 100

UK MoD data strategy calls for social media surveillance on behalf of 'local authorities'

Updated From a document supposedly about better use of existing silos. Eh?

Security30 Sep 2021 | 38

UK's Surveillance Commissioner warns of 'ethically fraught' facial recognition tech concerns

How about being an anonymous face in a crowd? Is that not allowed anymore?

AI + ML21 Sep 2021 | 12

LA cops told to harvest social media handles from people they stop, suspect or not

Policies revealed after long battle for transparency and accountability

Security09 Sep 2021 | 109

Academics tell UK lords that folk aren't keen on predictive policing, facial recognition, heightened surveillance

Philip K Dick is rolling in his grave

AI + ML07 Sep 2021 | 21

Can we talk about Kevin McCarthy promising revenge if Big Tech aids probe into January insurrection?

'A Republican majority will not forget'

Networks02 Sep 2021 | 130

USA warns Hong Kong government may demand business and customer data, run surveillance without warrants

Hong Kong authorities 'alarmed by unsubstantiated remarks'

Legal19 Jul 2021 | 18

MI5 still risks breaking the law on surveillance data through poor controls – years after it was first warned

Exclusive Yet spy agency overseer IPCO seems to be working as the public hoped

Security22 Jun 2021 | 17

Snowden was right, rules human rights court as it declares UK spy laws broke ECHR

Says privacy and freedom of expression breached, but upholds sending surveillance product to foreign countries

Security25 May 2021 | 80