Security News

Xinjiang Surveillance App Targets Legal, Everyday Behaviour: Rights Group
2019-05-02 12:24

Chinese authorities are using a mobile app designed for mass surveillance to profile, investigate and detain Muslims in Xinjiang by labelling "completely lawful" behaviour as suspicious, a Human...

NSA asks to end mass phone surveillance
2019-04-26 10:47

The NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.

Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout
2019-04-25 11:31

Nice bit of adversarial machine learning. The image from this news article is most of what you need to know, but here's the research paper....

Defense against the Darknet, or how to accessorize to defeat video surveillance
2019-04-19 21:16

Boffins from Belgium break people recognition software with a colorful placard A trio of Belgium-based boffins have created a ward that renders wearers unrecognizable to software trained to detect people.…

The surveillance economy has set its sights on smartphone sensors
2019-04-12 06:00

The most successful companies of our time are those who’ve mastered user data – collecting it, analyzing it and profiting from it – typically at the expense of user privacy. The Internet of things...

'Exodus' Surveillance Malware Found Targeting Apple iOS Users
2019-04-09 07:33

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an iOS version of the powerful mobile phone surveillance app that was initially targeting Android devices through apps on the official Google Play Store....

On Surveillance in the Workplace
2019-03-12 11:38

Data & Society just published a report entitled "Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance": This explainer highlights four broad trends in employee monitoring and surveillance technologies: Prediction...

Appeals Court to Hear Case of Reporter Alleging Surveillance
2019-01-28 21:47

When Sharyl Attkisson first began hearing clicking sounds on her phone and her computers started turning on and off in the middle of the night, she thought it was a technical glitch that could be...

Bulk surveillance is always bad, say human rights orgs appealing against top Euro court
2018-12-12 16:30

Liberty and pals seek to prove intrusive spy powers can never be justified A band of human rights organisations have appealed against a top European court's ruling on bulk surveillance, arguing...

US told to quit sharing data with human rights-violating surveillance regime. Which one, you ask? That'd be the UK
2018-11-28 13:15

Nonprofits urge Congress not to sign deal under CLOUD Act UK authorities should not be granted access to data held by American companies because British laws don't meet human rights obligations,...