Tag: surveillance

• 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 ›

• Hong Kong police use national security law to block protest-related website

  January 12, 2021

  Sources said the force had started asking internet service providers (ISPs) to halt access to the HKChronicles website citing Article 43 of the law and its implementation rules. https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3117072/hong-kong-police-use-national-security-law-block more ›

• As China Tracked Muslims, Alibaba Showed Customers How They Could, Too

  December 20, 2020

  The website for the tech titan’s cloud business described facial recognition software that could detect members of a minority group whose persecution has drawn international condemnation. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/technology/alibaba-china-facial-recognition-uighurs.html more ›

• Sci-fi surveillance: Europe’s secretive push into biometric technology

  December 10, 2020

  EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. €1.7bn from the programme over the past seven years backed the development of security products for… more ›

• State of Surveillance

  November 11, 2020

  In 2015, a national policy document issued by nine different Party and government bureaucracies called for “public safety video-surveillance construction, networking, and applications” across China. The policy described such surveillance systems as… more ›

• EU companies selling surveillance tools to China’s human rights abusers

  September 29, 2020

  European tech companies risk fuelling widespread human rights abuses by selling digital surveillance technology to China’s public security agencies, a new Amnesty International investigation reveals. Amnesty International found that three… more ›