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Bureau’s office of internal auditing was set up to uncover misuses of Fisa surveillance during Trump’s first termUS politics live – latest updatesThe FBI director, Kash Patel, has scrapped a watchdog team set up to scrutinise a warrantless surveillance…
US jury orders NSO Group to pay $168M to WhatsApp and Meta over Pegasus spyware use in 2019…
Two essays were just published on DOGE’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state.
It’s good to see this finally being talked about.
EDITED TO ADD (5/3): Here’s a free link to that first essay.
China-linked hackers targeted Uyghur activists using a Trojanized UyghurEditPP app in a spear-phishing campaign, Citizen Lab researchers reveal.…
In “Secrets and Lies” (2000), I wrote:
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
It’s something a bunch of us were saying at the time, in reference to the vast NSA’s surveillance capabilities.
I have been thinking of that quote a lot as I read news stories of President Trump firing the Director of the National Security Agency. General Timothy Haugh.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote:
We don’t know what pressure the Trump administration is using to make intelligence services fall into line, but it isn’t crazy to …
National security committee is investigating whether secret services breached law by using surveillance tool to monitor activists and journalistsThe Italian government approved the use of a sophisticated surveillance tool to spy on members of a humanit…
Iranian police are using digital tools to identify and punish women who defy the Islamic state’s harsh dress codeLike many women in Iran, Darya is used to feeling under surveillance. Yet in recent months, the 25-year-old finance analyst from northern T…
David Yambio, founder of Refugees in Libya, urges international criminal court members to have phones checked for spywareA prominent activist in Italy has warned the international criminal court (ICC) that his mobile phone was under surveillance when h…
Report on ‘possible links’ raises questions about extent and scope of Canadian authorities’ use of cyber weaponsResearchers have uncovered “possible links” between Ontario’s provincial police force and an Israel-based military-grade spyware maker calle…