New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced a settlement with Saturn Technologies, a developer of an app called Saturn used by high school students, for failing to protect young users’ privacy. Saturn allows high school students to create a personal calendar, message other members, share social media accounts, join groups, and know where other users are…
State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update – March 7, 2025
Wilmer Hale has published a State Comprehensive Privacy Law Update. You can read it online or download a .pdf file (11 pages).
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…