Surveillance

Pervasive digital surveillance of citizens deployed in COVID-19 fight, with rules that send genie back to bottle

Israel is up for it. America, Iran, Thailand may be, too. China is there already, natch

Security18 Mar 2020 | 46

Uncle Sam: Secretly spying on networks around the world without telling anyone, Huawei? But that's OUR job

Updated Chinese mega-maker denies latest allegations of backdoor shenanigans

Networks12 Feb 2020 | 32

Virtual reality is a bonkers fad that no one takes seriously but anyway, here's someone to tell us to worry about hackers

Enigma If printers and nuclear reactors on the internet are fair game, so's the gizmo on your face, we'll concede

Science28 Jan 2020 | 55

Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat

CES Platform makeover declared a 'total joke' by internet activists

Edge + IoT07 Jan 2020 | 43

You leak our secrets? We'll leak your book sales, speech fees – into our coffers: Uncle Sam wins royalties fight against Edward Snowden

Merry Christmas!

Security18 Dec 2019 | 38

Uncle Sam challenged in court for slurping social media info on 'millions' of visa applicants

Documentary filmmakers lob sue ball to halt practice

Personal Tech05 Dec 2019 | 47

Uncle Sam punishes China for abusing Uyghur Muslims – by blacklisting top AI surveillance companies

It will also restrict visas to Communist Party officials, too

AI + ML09 Oct 2019 | 32

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's two-dozen government surveillance balloons over America

Back at base, bugs in the software. Flash the message, 'Something's out there'... Floating in the summer sky, 99 Fed balloons go by

Security02 Aug 2019 | 74

Networking giant in hot water for selling US govt buggy spy kit? Huawei again? No, it's Cisco

American tech giant coughs up $9m for shipping vulnerable crates of crap to Uncle Sam

Networks01 Aug 2019 | 21

UK High Court rules Snooper's Charter doesn't break Euro human rights laws

IPA Liberty loses but vows appeal

Legal29 Jul 2019 | 19

UK Home Secretary doubles down on cops' deeply flawed facial recognition trials

1984 is not an instruction manual, and yet here we are

Security12 Jul 2019 | 47

Human-rights warriors crack on with legal challenge to UK's lax surveillance laws

Toughen it up and reduce all that warrantless state surveillance, demands Liberty

Legal17 Jun 2019 | 19

Maker of US border's license-plate scanning tech ransacked by hacker, blueprints and files dumped online

Exclusive Perceptics confirms intrusion and theft, stays quiet on details

Security23 May 2019 | 70

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance

Boffins from Belgium break people recognition software with a colorful placard

Security19 Apr 2019 | 155

Scare-bnb: Family finds creeper cams hidden in their weekend rental by scanning Wi-Fi

When Irish eyes are prying

Security05 Apr 2019 | 98

ACLU: Here's how FBI tried to force Facebook to wiretap its chat app. Judge: Oh no you don't

Federal court shoots down attempt to reveal Feds' decryption demands

Security13 Feb 2019 | 28

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

Snooping court says police kit can be surveillance tool

Security08 Feb 2019 | 74

Civil liberties groups take another swing at Brit snooping regime in Euro human rights court

Case referred up to the Grand Chamber

Legal05 Feb 2019 | 43

UK.gov told: If you want public to trust surveillance cam strategy, throw money and manpower at it

Commish laments 'illogical' limitation on code compliance

Legal24 Jan 2019 | 10

Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights orgs appealing against top Euro court

Liberty and pals seek to prove intrusive spy powers can never be justified

Security12 Dec 2018 | 21

Boffins build bugged bees bearing backpacks

Bees harvest data, but would be more fun if they had lasers

Science12 Dec 2018 | 23

'Say hello to my little vacuum cleaner!' US drug squad puts spycams in cleaner's kit

DEA gets down and dirty with new surveillance kit

Security07 Dec 2018 | 54

UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? Well, things have 'evolved'...

Admit they are upping their use of mass snooping

Security06 Dec 2018 | 59

GCHQ pushes for 'virtual crocodile clips' on chat apps – the ability to silently slip into private encrypted comms

Analysis Sliding into your DMs unnoticed, literally

Security29 Nov 2018 | 132

US told to quit sharing data with human rights-violating surveillance regime. Which one, you ask? That'd be the UK

Nonprofits urge Congress not to sign deal under CLOUD Act

Security28 Nov 2018 | 48

Great. Global internet freedoms take another dive as censorship and fake news proliferate

China is 'remaking the world in its techno-dystopian image'

Legal02 Nov 2018 | 12

Anonymous Amazonian demands withdrawal of face-recog kit from sale

Was your anti-surveillance letter sinkholed? Write a blog about it

Science19 Oct 2018 | 19

World's largest CCTV maker leaves at least 9 million cameras open to public viewing

Xiongmai's cloud portal opens sneaky backdoor into servers

Security09 Oct 2018 | 45

Cisco sneaks hardcoded secret root backdoor into vid surveillance kit

Who watches the watchers? Anybody who has the login

Networks25 Sep 2018 | 25

Top Euro court: UK's former snooping regime breached human rights

Oversight insufficient, slurping indiscriminate

Legal13 Sep 2018 | 20

Activists raise alarm over insidious creep of surveillance in the UK

Report calls for government data 'firewall', spy-free schools, up-to-date laws

Personal Tech07 Sep 2018 | 47

US government upends critical spying case with new denial

But nothing is what is seems when it comes to Section 702 programs

Legal31 Aug 2018 | 18

US drug cops snared crooks with pre-cracked BlackBerry mobes – and that's just the start

Analysis Same being used against ordinary US citizens?

Security13 Jul 2018 | 46

Wasn't too hard, was it? UK has made 'significant progress' in spy control

UN privacy expert: Britain no longer a privacy joke, but has more to do

Legal29 Jun 2018 | 13

Not so private eye: Got an Axis network cam? You'll need to patch it, unless you like hackers

According to magic people, VDOO people

Security18 Jun 2018 | 9

RoboCop-ter: Boffins build drone to pinpoint brutal thugs in crowds

Video 'Violent behavior' identified and highlighted by surveillance system destined for a police force near you

AI + ML06 Jun 2018 | 42

'Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ': Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism

Cambridge Uni powwow broods on Facebook, Wannacry

Security04 Jun 2018 | 98

UK's spy auditor: What should we ask when reviewing super-slurp warrants?

Assessing applications for comms-snooping apparatus

Legal24 May 2018 | 5

London's Met Police: We won't use facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

But cops' trial of controversial tech will continue

Security24 May 2018 | 45

UK Supreme Court to probe British spy court's immunity from probing

Privacy International gets another shot at shadowy Investigatory Powers Tribunal

Legal18 May 2018 | 22

Wah, encryption makes policing hard, cries UK's National Crime Agency

Ever since Snowden it's been the default – report

Security14 May 2018 | 108

US prison telco accused of selling your phone's location to the cops

Updated Senator Wyden asks FCC, mobile carriers to investigate stalker tech

Personal Tech11 May 2018 | 37

Make masses carry their mobes, suggests wig in not-at-all-creepy speech

Top Brit judge thinks we'll warm to our Panopticon overlords

Personal Tech11 May 2018 | 133

New law would stop Feds from demanding encryption backdoor

The Secure Data Act has returned and is lookin' for love

Security10 May 2018 | 25

Brit govt told to do its homework ahead of talks over post-Brexit spy laws and data flows

MPs warned that negotiations could take years, better lay the groundwork now

Security10 May 2018 | 33

Kremlin's war on Telegram sees 50 VPNs stopped at the border

Viber said to be next target of stop-terrorists-talking effort

Legal08 May 2018 | 19

NSA sought data on 534 MILLION phone calls in 2017

Compared to 151 million in 2016, perhaps due to dupes rather than spy boom

Security07 May 2018 | 22

Drone 'swarm' buzzed off FBI surveillance bods, says tech bloke

UAV arms race with drug lords is upon us

Personal Tech04 May 2018 | 50

Australian Signals Directorate won't become domestic snoops

Unauthorised leak of non-proposal referred to the Feds. Wait, what?

Legal30 Apr 2018 | 8

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, oi oi oi! Tech zillionaire Ray's backdoor crypto for the Feds is Clipper chip v2

Analysis Lotus Notes man has a plan... and a patent

Security27 Apr 2018 | 60

State spy agencies 'outsource surveillance' to foreign partners – campaign group

Privacy International slams secret deals and 'dangerous lack of oversight'

Legal24 Apr 2018 | 17

UK.gov expected to quit controversial harvesting of schoolchildren's nationality data

Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged

Legal10 Apr 2018 | 100

You. FCC. Get out there and do something about these mystery bogus cell towers, huff bigwigs

It's the Ruskies! Or maybe the FBI! Stingray secrecy rebounds

Security09 Apr 2018 | 32

Hold the phone: Mystery fake cell towers spotted slurping comms around Washington DC

US Homeland Security says it detected 'anomalous' spy kit

Security03 Apr 2018 | 42

US Congress quietly slips cloud-spying powers into page 2,201 of spending mega-bill

Updated House OKs email slurp rules, Senate stalled

SaaS23 Mar 2018 | 25

US cops go all Minority Report: Google told to cough up info on anyone near a crime scene

Police cyber-hunt reveals massive gap in legal protections

Personal Tech19 Mar 2018 | 148