law enforcement
The US Military Buys Commercial Location Data
Vice has a long article about how the US military buys commercial location data worldwide. The U.S. military is buying the granular movement data of people around the world, harvested from innocuous-seeming ...
IMSI-Catchers from Canada
Gizmodo is reporting that Harris Corp. is no longer selling Stingray IMSI-catchers (and, presumably, its follow-on models Hailstorm and Crossbow) to local governments: L3Harris Technologies, formerly known as the Harris Corporation, notified ...
New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities
There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools (MDFTs). Short summary: it’s not just the FBI that can do it. This report documents the widespread adoption ...
Google Gives Cops Your Search Terms – Let the Frog-Boiling Commence
Google stands accused of agreeing to overly-broad search warrants, which might violate the Fourth Amendment ...
Rogue Shopify Staff Accessed Customer Records, Says Ecommerce Platform Investigating Security Breach
Members of Shopify’s support team abused access to company network Customer contact information and order details accessed FBI and international law enforcement agencies are investigating Shopify, the major ecommerce platform which powers ...
Supplementing SCCs to Solve Surveillance Shortfalls
This article was originally published in the IAPP Daily Dashboard on August 19, 2020. By invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield but not rejecting wholesale the use of standard contractual clauses to transfer ...
Garbage In, Gospel Out: The Security Problem of Data Accuracy
The accuracy or integrity of data is only as good as its source In two separate incidents, one in Colorado and one in Washington, D.C., police at gunpoint stopped people who were ...
COVID-19 Research and Vaccine Research Targeted by APT29 Group
Organizations from the US, UK and Canada involved in COVID-19 research have been targeted by a hacking group known as APT29. APT, or Advanced Persistent Threat, groups are usually nation-state or state-sponsored ...
European Agencies Hack Criminal Encrochat Messaging System
A joint operation headed by European and British law agencies dismantled the Encrochat messaging service, leading to the arrests of more than 100 people as well as the seizure of numerous weapons ...
