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How Cops Can Secretly Track Your Phone - 31 juillet 2020
A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.
Since May, as protesters around the country have marched against police brutality and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, activists have spotted a recurring presence in the skies : mysterious planes and (...)
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BlueLeaks Hack Exposes Personal Data of 700,000 Cops - 17 juillet 2020
After failing to prevent the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government realized it had an information sharing problem. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies had their own separate surveillance databases that possibly could have prevented the attacks, but they didn’t communicate any of (...)
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Thousands of contracts highlight quiet ties between Big Tech and U.S. military - 12 juillet 2020
The report offers a new window into the relationship between tech companies and the U.S. government, as well as an important detail about why such contracts are often difficult to find.
Over the past two years, thousands of tech company employees have taken a stand : they do not want their labor and technical (...)
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LAPD Got Tech Demos from Israeli Phone Hacking Firm NSO Group - 12 juin 2020
Emails obtained by Motherboard also reveal new details about previously unreported NSO Group products.
Members of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) met with employees of the U.S.-branch of the controversial Israeli surveillance vendor NSO Group and received a demo of the company’s powerful phone hacking (...)
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Apps are selling your location data. The U.S. government is buying. - 9 février 2020
AMERICANS HAVE lately been learning that the apps they use to check whether they need an umbrella, or follow their favorite sports team, or hurl one animated animal at another for points are sucking up their location data and selling it. Now it turns out that it’s not only advertising companies and other private (...)
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World - 28 mars 2017
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages"”and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.
The night it happened, right after (...)
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Colombie : une ONG dénonce un vaste système illégal de surveillance - 1er septembre 2015
Les services de renseignement colombiens ont mis en place un système de surveillance illégal et ont outrepassé leurs prérogatives légales en matière d’espionnage, selon l’ONG londonienne Privacy International, qui a publié, lundi 31 août, un rapport à ce sujet.
Cette dernière détaille plusieurs systèmes de surveillance (...)
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How Colombia built a shadow state, a new Privacy International investigation reveals - 31 août 2015
"We always assume we are being watched. It is part of our understanding," explained Father Alberto. The clergyman knows what it’s like to live under surveillance. Father Alberto is Executive Secretary of the Inter-ecclesiastical Commission for Justice and Peace in Colombia, which supports displaced and (...)
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Leaked Documents Show FBI, DEA and U.S. Army Buying Italian Spyware - 7 juillet 2015
The FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Army have all bought controversial software that allows users to take remote control of suspects’ computers, recording their calls, emails, keystrokes and even activating their cameras, according to internal documents hacked from the software’s Italian manufacturer. (...)
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Les technologies de surveillance des portables sous la loupe - 5 mai 2015
Le ministère américain de la Justice a indiqué lundi qu’il réexaminait l’usage de technologies controversées pour surveiller les téléphones portables dans des enquêtes pénales comme moyen de localiser ou de confondre des suspects.
« S’agissant de cette technologie, le département de la Justice est en train de réexaminer ses (...)
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Hacking Team spyware sold to US DEA, and US Army - 16 avril 2015
Investigations by Privacy International in co-operation with VICE Motherboard, reveal that Hacking Team has sold its Remote Control System to the US Drug Enforcement Agency and US military via a front company based in the US.
The investigation, published today in a new Privacy International briefing paper, (...)
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DEA Global Surveillance Dragnet Exposed ; Access to Data Likely Continues - 12 avril 2015
Secret mass surveillance conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration is falling under renewed scrutiny after fresh revelations about the broad scope of the agency’s electronic spying.
On Tuesday, USA Today reported that for more than two decades, dating back to 1992, the DEA and the Justice Department (...)
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U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades - 8 avril 2015
The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans’ international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed.
For more than two (...)
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Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s - 8 avril 2015
For at least six years, law enforcement officials working on a counternarcotics program have had routine access, using subpoenas, to an enormous AT&T database that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls "” parallel to but covering a far longer time than the National Security Agency’s hotly (...)
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Aux Etats-Unis, un vaste programme de surveillance téléphonique bien avant la NSA - 8 avril 2015
Le 6 juin 2013, le Guardian amorce la plus grande série de révélations de l’histoire du renseignement américain en montrant, sur la base de documents d’Edward Snowden, comment la National Security Aghency (NSA) collecte l’intégralité des métadonnées téléphoniques des abonnés Verizon, un des principaux opérateurs téléphoniques (...)
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Cops Need to Obey Facebook’s Rules - 25 octobre 2014
Facebook scolded the Drug Enforcement Administration this week after learning that a narcotics agent had impersonated a user named Sondra Arquiett on the social network in order to communicate and gather intelligence on suspects. In a strongly worded letter to DEA head Michele Leonhart, Facebook’s Chief Security (...)
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Surveillance : la NSA a créé son propre « Google » - 26 août 2014
Un véritable « Google made in NSA » : c’est ainsi que le site The Intercept, fondé par le journaliste Glenn Greenwald, qui a divulgué les documents secrets d’Edward Snowden, décrit le programme ICReach, dont il a dévoilé l’existence ce lundi.
ICReach est, en résumé, un moteur de recherche basique, mais qui permet (...)
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The Surveillance Engine : How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google - 25 août 2014
The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a "Google-like" search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept.
The (...)
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How NSA Mass Surveillance is Hurting the US Economy - 27 novembre 2013
Privacy may not be the only casualty of the National Security Agency’s massive surveillance program. Major sectors of the US economy are reporting financial damage as the recent revelations shake consumer confidence and US trade partners distance themselves from companies that may have been compromised by the NSA (...)
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Your car, tracked : the rapid rise of license plate readers - 28 septembre 2012
Largely unregulated, cameras now collect millions of travel records every day.
Tiburon, a small but wealthy town just northeast of the Golden Gate Bridge, has an unusual distinction : it was one of the first towns in the country to mount automated license plate readers (LPRs) at its city borders"”the only two (...)
