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

oshw This year's Electromagnetic Field hacker campout demonstrated the awesome power of DIY cellphones and DIY stingrays Cory Doctorow

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

privacy Canada's Mounties use a 6-year-old "interim policy" to justify warrantless mass surveillance Cory Doctorow

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

happy mutants Wardriving for Stingrays with rideshare cars Cory Doctorow

security Stingray for criminals: spreading mobile malware with fake cellphone towers Cory Doctorow

corruption EFF is gathering data on illegal surveillance of Dakota Access Pipeline water protectors Cory Doctorow

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

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

security Baseband vulnerability could mean undetectable, unblockable attacks on mobile phones Cory Doctorow

privacy The US Government's domestic spy-planes take weekends and holidays off Cory Doctorow

law Maryland's Attorney General: you consent to surveillance by turning on your phone Cory Doctorow

corruption Anaheim: the happiest surveillance state on earth Cory Doctorow

law DHS admits it uses Stingrays for VIPs, vows to sometimes get warrants, stop lying to judges 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 LEAKED: The secret catalog American law enforcement orders cellphone-spying gear from Cory Doctorow

law California passes the country's best-ever online privacy law Cory Doctorow