NoCrackingZone | Tag | surveillance

Cops need warrant for both location history and phone pinging, says judge

It’s one of the first location data privacy cases to grapple with the warrant and surveillance implications of the Carpenter decision.

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

Naked Security Live investigates how to sniff out snoopy spycams. We explain what works, and what doesn’t, when it comes to hidden cameras.

We’ve heard this tale before. This time, it was mentioned by a congressional aide. Also, the NSA released Ghidra, a free reverse-engineering tool.

It’s been off by default, Google says – not much consolation to those who don’t cotton to the notion of a “secret” listening gadget.

The Feds tried—and failed—to force Facebook to break its encryption so investigators could listen in on suspected MS-13 gang conversations.

Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – give it a listen!

Profits are nice, but “We don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom,” says President Brad Smith.

China’s air conditioning business queen Dong Mingzhu was recently outed as a jaywalker – thanks to an ad on the side of a bus.

Not picking up after your dog will cost you 10 points, for example, in China’s Black Mirror-esque plan to socially score citizens.