crime Your phone is a crimewave in your pocket, and it's all the fault of greedy carriers and complicit regulators Cory Doctorow

security EFF publishes an indispensable, plain-language guide to "cell-site simulators": the surveillance devices that track you via your phone Cory Doctorow

china Hong Kong's #612strike uprising is alive to surveillance threats, but its countermeasures are woefully inadequate Cory Doctorow

security Major vulnerability in 5G means that anyone with $500 worth of gear can spy on a wide area's mobile activity Cory Doctorow

petard News crew discovers 40 cellphone-tracking devices operating around DC Cory Doctorow

security It's not hard to think of ways to outsmart Stingray-detector apps Cory Doctorow

law The FCC helped create the Stingray problem, now it needs to fix it Cory Doctorow

police state Sen. Wyden confirms that police Stingray cellphone surveillance gadgets disrupt emergency services Rob Beschizza

surveillance It could happen here: How China's social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities Cory Doctorow

happy mutants In 2009 a NJ judge banned hooking up voting machines to the internet, but that's exactly how ES&S's "airgapped" machines work Cory Doctorow

surveillance West coast jurisdictions advance community oversight of police surveillance Shahid Buttar

Were police snooping on Women's March protesters' cellphones? Too many departments won't say Curtis Waltman

surveillance Virginia State cops have blown a fortune on useless cellphone spying gear Cory Doctorow

corruption Massive report details the surveillance powers of 12 Central and South American nations Cory Doctorow

law America's courts are going dark Cory Doctorow

surveillance LEAKED: The secret catalog American law enforcement orders cellphone-spying gear from Cory Doctorow

law DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges Cory Doctorow