Without a Trace: How to Keep Your Phone Off the Grid We answer the questions readers asked in response to our guide to anonymizing your phone By: Monique O. Madan and Wesley Callow About the LevelUp series: At The Markup, we’re committed to doing everything we can to protect our readers from digital harm, write…
Category: Surveillance
Amazon is selling creepy hidden spy cameras disguised as boring home accessory
Ben Ashton comments: Amazon is selling one of the creepiest items you will come across this Christmas. What looks like a very dull home accessory is, in fact, concealing a hidden spy camera. Recording devices have been built into clothes hooks, which at first glance wouldn’t appear to be anything more than something to hang your jacket…
AI and Mass Spying
Bruce Schneier writes: Spying and surveillance are different but related things. If I hired a private detective to spy on you, that detective could hide a bug in your home or car, tap your phone, and listen to what you said. At the end, I would get a report of all the conversations you had…
The House Intelligence Committee’s Surveillance ‘Reform’ Bill is a Farce
India McKinney of EFF writes: Earlier this week, both the House Committee on the Judiciary (HJC) and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) marked up two very different bills (H.R. 6570 – Protect Liberty and End Warrantless Surveillance Act in HJC, and HR 6611, the FISA Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2023 in HPSCI),…