Indian city floats camera-packing surveillance balloon to zoom in on quarantine-quitters As Prime Minister calls on citizens to inspire adoption of contact-tracing app Legal15 Apr 2020 | 4
Australian state will install home surveillance hardware to make sure if you're in virus isolation, you stay there Could be a wearable, could be wired. Backed by big fines and jail Security01 Apr 2020 | 84
Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown Big Brother refitted for Big Hover Science28 Mar 2020 | 86
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 | 33
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
UK.gov told: Draw up code of practice for cops bulk-slurping car plates CCTV commish welcomes amendment 3 years after first suggested Legal16 Mar 2018 | 51
ACL-Sue: Rights group takes on TSA over device searches FOIA suit seeks info about snooping on domestic flights Legal14 Mar 2018 | 2
US government privacy watchdog stumbles back to its feet with new hires But look closely and you'll note the PCLOB has no teeth Legal13 Mar 2018 | 1