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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been using Apple's AirTags for surveillance purposes. Forbes Associate Editor Thomas Brewster disclosed the DEA's use of AirTags in a March [...]

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For years, California residents were allowed to know almost nothing about some of their public servants. While most of the government was a (relative) open book, law enforcement officers and their misconduct records were shielded from public view by a law that exempted plenty of police wrongdoing from public records requests. That changed in 2019…

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When NSO Group began making the wrong kind of headlines all over the world, suddenly lots of governments began at least feigning an interest in caring about what third-party tools their intelligence and security agencies were using to conduct surveillance. The problem wasn't just NSO Group. True, the Israel-based firm was more than happy to…

Russia's fighting a war in Ukraine and a war at home. As residents express their displeasure with their government, the government's cameras and facial recognition AI are going into overdrive to ensure Putin and his pals control the narrative. Unfortunately, the Russian government is getting some help from the United States, albeit inadvertently. Russia has…

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7 posts published by Tim Cushing, Dark Helmet, Mike Masnick, Gretchen Heckmann, and Karl Bode on April 6, 2023

Israel's foremost purveyor of malware, NSO Group, has undergone nearly a yearlong reckoning. A leak last summer appeared to show NSO customers were routinely targeting journalists, activists, members of opposition parties, and, in one case, the ex-wife of a Dubai ruler. That NSO Group was shady wasn't a new fact. Its decision to sell malware…