anti-surveillance
Fight for the Future, EFF, Others Push Back Against Growing ICE Surveillance
Jeffrey Burt | | anti-surveillance, Congress, Department of Homeland Security, EFF, facial recognition technology, Fight for the Future, geofencing and location tracking, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Palantir, PenLink, Trump Administration
The privacy rights group Fight for the Future was one of 44 organizations that sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to pull back on funding for ICE, noting the growing threats ...
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Defending Against Pervasive Spyware
The revelation that Israeli company NSO Group’s spy software Pegasus was targeting the smartphones of activists, journalists and business executives sent a shockwave through the international press. The spyware successfully infiltrated the ...
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How Sky Global was Indicted for Selling Security
The point of security is to control your data. You get to decide who sees data and who does not. Both encryption and access control are designed to permit authorized people to ...
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Aventura Charged With Selling Chinese-Made Security Equipment
Frank Ohlhorst | | 2019 Defense Authorizaton Act, anti-surveillance, Aventura Technologies, Chinese hardware, Huawei, Hytera Communications, indictment, spying, ZTE
Aventura Technologies and seven of its executives have been charged with illegally importing Chinese-made security and surveillance equipment and claiming it to be made in the United States. The company, based in ...
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SafeCase and Beyond; Safeguarding Smartphone Data
Last month, we released our second-generation product, the Privoro SafeCase, which is compatible with the iPhone 7 and 8. While SafeCase can be used by organizations for a variety of use cases, ...

