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Activist says treatment of her by Mark Jenner, with whom she had five-year relationship, left her devastatedAn undercover police officer who deceived a woman into a five-year relationship and strung her along when she wanted to have children with him h…
Tech company has installed the advertising screens in hundreds of apartment blocks across 20 British citiesDigital billboards that can film viewers’ responses to adverts have been installed in hundreds of apartment blocks, in a move that civil liberty …
A new anonymous phone service allows you to sign up with just a zip code.
This quote is from House of Huawei: The Secret History of China’s Most Powerful Company.
“Long before anyone had heard of Ren Zhengfei or Huawei, Wan Runnan had been China’s star entrepreneur in the 1980s, with his company, the Stone Group, touted as “China’s IBM.” Wan had believed that economic change could lead to political change. He had thrown his support behind the pro-democracy protesters in 1989. As a result, he had to flee to France, with an arrest warrant hanging over his head. He was never able to return home. Now, decades later and in failing health in Paris, Wan recalled something that had happened one day in the late 1980s, when he was still living in Beijing…
Gulf nation is accused of placing monitoring software on computers of two dissidents living in LondonBahrain is to tell the UK’s supreme court that it enjoys sovereign immunity from claims it placed surveillance software on the computers of two disside…
DEEP DIVE – It’s the opening act in a potential public health nightmare: a chicken dies on a farm, for no apparent reason; another perishes at a farm hundreds of miles away; it takes time for the farm owners to notice, more time for tests to be conduc…
Even with strong wireless encryption, privacy in connected homes may be thinner than expected. A new study from Leipzig University shows that someone in an adjacent apartment could learn personal details about a household without breaking any encryptio…
Mother Jones has a long article on surveillance arms manufacturers, their wares, and how they avoid export control laws:
Operating from their base in Jakarta, where permissive export laws have allowed their surveillance business to flourish, First Wap’s European founders and executives have quietly built a phone-tracking empire, with a footprint extending from the Vatican to the Middle East to Silicon Valley.
It calls its proprietary system Altamides, which it describes in promotional materials as “a unified platform to covertly locate the whereabouts of single or multiple suspects in real-time, to detect movement patterns, and to detect whether suspects are in close vicinity with each other.”…
Citizens have enrolled with little opposition, albeit with some concerns over security and privacy, as UK plans systemKeir Starmer to look at India’s digital ID system during visit to MumbaiFor Danish teenagers, getting enrolled for MitID (my ID) has b…
This chilling paragraph is in a comprehensive Brookings report about the use of tech to deport people from the US:
The administration has also adapted its methods of social media surveillance. Though agencies like the State Department have gathered millions of handles and monitored political discussions online, the Trump administration has been more explicit in who it’s targeting. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a new, zero-tolerance “Catch and Revoke” strategy, which uses AI to monitor the public speech of foreign nationals and revoke visas…