Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia
Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia

In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the…

Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says

The Iranian government exploited well-known flaws in cellphone networks to locate and then strike U.S. military personnel in the build-up and beginning of the war.

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

The LAPD, one of Flock’s biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

AI security cameras may soon recognize your walk before they recognize your face

A new AI gait recognition system can identify people by walking patterns, giving security cameras another long-range signal when faces are blurry, hidden, or too small to trust.

In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights

The Supreme Court’s decision to limit geofence warrants is a win for privacy advocates, who called their use unconstitutional but sought an outright ban.

Cellebrite said it cut off Russia, but Russia used is tools anyway

Security researchers found evidence that Russian authorities hacked the iPhone of a political opponent using a phone-unlocking device made by Cellebrite, even after the company said it would stop selling to Putin’s government.

Meta was sneakily tracking its employees, but soon shut it down after an internal leak

Meta halted its employee tracking program, which collected keystrokes, screen content, and mouse movements, after sensitive data was leaked internally.

We Are Crowd-Sourcing the Panopticon
We Are Crowd-Sourcing the Panopticon

A man raises his phone as police move into a crowd. The video is shaky, loud, immediate. Within minutes, it is online. Within hours, it is everywhere. This is how accountability works now. Something happens, someone records it, and that footage can sh…

WhatsApp says it caught new spyware attacks linked to NSO Group in violation of court order

The messaging giant announced that it disrupted a phishing campaign targeting its users with NSO’s spyware.

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

A new hacking campaign is trying to trick Signal users to give up their secret recovery key, which can be used to access online backups containing past messages.