Jon L. Mills and Alexandra Williams write: Several years ago, Zack McCoy became a criminal suspect simply for riding his bike. His crime? Using a fitness app that placed him near the scene of a burglary. While McCoy was eventually cleared, his story illustrates a troubling reality: emerging surveillance technologies pose unprecedented threats to our…
Category: Surveillance
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying
Cooper Quintin and Will explain: At EFF we spend a lot of time thinking about Street Level Surveillance technologies—the technologies used by police and other authorities to spy on you while you are going about your everyday life—such as automated license plate readers, facial recognition, surveillance camera networks, and cell-site simulators (CSS). Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created…
Catalan court gives green light to NSO indictment
As seen on Risky Business News: A court in the Spanish region of Catalonia ordered this week that prosecutors indict three executives at Israeli spyware maker NSO Group. The court found that the three executives facilitated the unlawful surveillance of 63 Catalans following anti-government protests in the mid-2010s. The executives are NSO founders Shalev Hulio and Omri…
Signal leaves Sweden if government’s data storage proposal is rejected
The following is an automated Googletranslation of an article published at SVT: The encrypted messaging app Signal is growing – now even the Swedish Armed Forces use the app. But the government wants to force the company to introduce a technical backdoor for the Police and Säpo. – If it becomes a reality, we will…