security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow
china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow
security Major vulnerability in 5G means that anyone with $500 worth of gear can spy on a wide area's mobile activity Cory Doctorow
oshw This year's Electromagnetic Field hacker campout demonstrated the awesome power of DIY cellphones and DIY stingrays Cory Doctorow
police state Sen. Wyden confirms that police Stingray cellphone surveillance gadgets disrupt emergency services Rob Beschizza
surveillance Oakland passes groundbreaking municipal law requiring citizen oversight of local surveillance Cory Doctorow
stingrays They're just like us: Feds fear their phone calls and texts are being monitored Seamus Bellamy
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privacy Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance Cory Doctorow
corruption Feds admit they used secret anti-terror mass surveillance tool to catch an undocumented waiter Cory Doctorow
Business Cyber-arms dealers offer to sell surveillance weapons to undercover Al Jazeera reporters posing as reps of South Sudan and Iran Cory Doctorow
privacy How Kenyan spies and cops use electronic surveillance for illegal murder and torture squads Cory Doctorow
corruption EFF is gathering data on illegal surveillance of Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors Cory Doctorow