Police Across US Bypass Warrants With Mass Location-Tracking Tool
[ad_1] As summer winds down, researchers warned this week about systemic vulnerabilities in mobile app infrastructure, as well as a new iOS security flaw and one in TikTok. And new…
The FTC May (Finally) Protect Americans From Data Brokers
[ad_1] On August 29, the Federal Trade Commission announced it had filed a landmark lawsuit against data broker Kochava for “selling geolocation data from hundreds of millions of mobile devices”…
Scans of Students’ Homes During Tests Are Deemed Unconstitutional
[ad_1] As the pandemic unfolded in spring 2020, an Educause survey found that an increasing number of students—who had very little choice but to take tests remotely—were increasingly putting up…
The Privacy Flaw Threatening US Democracy
[ad_1] “Everybody should care about privacy because information is power, and human information confers power over human beings,” Richards says. “In an information society where so many decisions are made…
Polio Is Back in the US and UK. Here’s How That Happened
[ad_1] The discovery that polio has partially paralyzed a young man in a New York suburb feels wearying, yet shocking. Wearying, because it’s the third highly infectious virus to make…
Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime
[ad_1] According to the New Jersey lawsuit, police had reopened an investigation into a cold case and had used genetics to place the suspect within a single family: one of…
Spyware Scandals Are Ripping Through Europe
[ad_1] Last year in Hungary, six people discovered their phones had been hacked by NSO group’s Pegasus, after they were tipped off by the Pegasus Project, an investigation by 17…
This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed
[ad_1] Matt Edmondson, a federal agent with the Department of Homeland Security for the last 21 years, got a call for help last year. A friend working in another part…
Facebook’s Message Encryption Was Built to Fail
[ad_1] The details are chilling. Police raiding a home, a teenager and her mother arrested, fetal remains exhumed from a rural burial plot. When police dragged off a 17-year-old Nebraska…
Kids Are Back in Classrooms and Laptops Are Still Spying on Them
[ad_1] This is what high school teachers see when they open GoGuardian, a popular software application used to monitor student activity: The interface is familiar, like the gallery view of…
Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
[ad_1] It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside. Internet-connected cell phones and electronic money transfers through Green…
The January 6 Secret Service Text Scandal Turns Criminal
[ad_1] As the United States midterm elections near, lawmakers and law enforcement officials are on high alert about violent threats targeted at election officials across the country—domestic threats that have…
The DHS Bought a ‘Shocking Amount’ of Phone-Tracking Data
[ad_1] For years, people have wondered not if, but how much, the Department of Homeland Security accesses mobile location data to monitor US citizens. This week, the American Civil Liberties…