Zack Whittaker reports: An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The case, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation a decade ago, seeks to challenge the government’s alleged illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of Americans, who are…
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US senator working on bill that would jail CEOs for user privacy violations
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Oregon Democrat Senator Ron Wyden is working on a bill that would bolster US consumer privacy rights, bring them to the level of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and even take protections one step further by jailing executives at big companies for lying or not reporting privacy violations. The new…
‘Stalkerware’ Website Let Anyone Intercept Texts of Tens of Thousands of People
Joseph Cox and Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai report: This story is part of When Spies Come Home, a Motherboard series about powerful surveillance software ordinary people use to spy on their loved ones. A website and app designed to let users monitor their children, employees, or illegally spy on their spouse inadvertently allowed anyone who was using…
Hospital is the first in the country to issue patients with electronic wristbands that track their movements through ‘big brother’ style technology
Alexandra Thompson reports: A hospital has become the first to issue all staff and patients with electronic ‘wristbands’ to track their movements through ‘big brother’ style technology. In an NHS trial, the Countess of Chester Hospital, in Cheshire, has more than 4,000 infrared sensors above beds and doorways that read data chips on patients’ and…