Tag: surveillance

• The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

  July 16, 2022

  It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. t is one… more ›

• Cryptocurrency Titan Coinbase Providing “Geo Tracking Data” to ICE

  June 30, 2022

  Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents… more ›

• I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move

  February 12, 2022

  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. In mid-January, my husband and I were having an argument. Our 1-year-old… more ›

• Surveillance, Companionship, and Entertainment: The Ancient History of Intelligent Machines

  December 5, 2021

  Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that extend far back into the… more ›

• China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why

  September 19, 2021

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• Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app’s perspective

  April 27, 2021

  Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterprise branding joins together with the larcenous to be called… more ›

• Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’

  March 26, 2021

  Thousands of staff at one of the world’s biggest call centre companies face being monitored by webcams to check whether they are eating, looking at their phones or leaving their… more ›

• How Investigative Journalism Flourished in Hostile Russia

  March 5, 2021

  The Russian language has introduced a few words that in recent years have been widely used and misused in English: disinformation, kompromat, Novichok. But the one that blows my mind… more ›

• They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

  February 10, 2021

  In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The… more ›

• The Coup We Are Not Talking About

  January 31, 2021

  In an information civilization, societies are defined by questions of knowledge — how it is distributed, the authority that governs its distribution and the power that protects that authority. Who… more ›