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Israeli phone malware manufacturer NSO Group has plenty of customers. Or at least it did until the Israeli government edited the company's list of approved customers and the US government slapped sanctions on it. NSO has sold its malware to plenty of abusive governments with long histories of human rights violations. It has also sold…

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Law enforcement agencies have access to very powerful digital tools. Thanks to companies with eyes on market expansion but very little consideration of moral or ethical issues, cops have the power to completely compromise phones, turning them into unwitting informants... or worse. This blockbuster report -- written by Andy Greenberg for Wired and based on…

The "Miranda rights" established by the Supreme Court in 1966 are a little less guaranteed going forward. The Supreme Court has issued an opinion [PDF] that limits what citizens whose rights have been violated can do -- limiting them to exercising these rights during criminal trials as a component of their Fifth Amendment rights. The…

Give anyone access to tons of sensitive personal information and it's bound to result in abuse. Give cops access to this data and abuse is guaranteed. Why? Because law enforcement officers -- for reasons unfathomable to regular people -- face far fewer consequences for violating internal policies and breaking laws. Regular people get fired. Cops…