Business Ireland suspects Russia is trying to crack transatlantic fiber-optic ocean bed cables Xeni Jardin

Gadgets Trump's immigration enforcement agents use cellphone location data to track individuals for detention – WSJ Xeni Jardin

Business Facebook accuses Israel's NSO Group of exploiting U.S. servers to infect 100s of devices via WhatsApp Xeni Jardin

nsa How to look cute on your webcam that the government is definitely spying on Thom Dunn

privacy Spying on everyone to combat COVID-19 will further erode civil liberties just like 9/11, privacy advocates warn Xeni Jardin

surveillance What it's like inside the CIA during Donald Trump's "Deep State" purge Thom Dunn

transparency How the Trump administration is putting public records under threat, so history may never know the awful things they did Thom Dunn

foia Why is the FBI protecting Superman's civilian identity? Thom Dunn

law Tiktok took less than a day to settle parents' lawsuit over spying on their kids Cory Doctorow

law NSO Group employees kicked off Facebook for spying for brutal dictators are suing Facebook for violating their privacy Cory Doctorow

machine learning Networked authoritarianism may contain the seeds of its own undoing Cory Doctorow

picks Former CIA officer Jerry Lee sentenced to 19 years for handing U.S. info to China Xeni Jardin

privacy Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudis Rob Beschizza

politics DOJ charges former Twitter staff with spying for Saudi Arabia, digging into MBS critics' accounts Xeni Jardin

law Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials Cory Doctorow

security China's new cybersecurity rules ban foreign companies from using VPNs to phone home Cory Doctorow

television RFID implicated in live-streamed poker cheating scandal Jason Weisberger

surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow

law Identity theft's newest target: your face Albert Fox Cahn

apple Apple bans an app because Hong Kong protesters might use it to avoid the murderous, out of control police Cory Doctorow