Feds Reportedly Sent a Predator Drone to Spy on LA Protesters Gizmodo By:Lucas Ropek 10 June 2025 at 20:25 The government is busting out the big guns to surveil protesters, according to trackers.
Italian lawmakers say Italy used spyware to target phones of immigration activists, but not against journalist TechCrunch By:Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 6 June 2025 at 20:16 A parliamentary investigation answered some β but not all β the questions related to a spyware scandal involving the use of the Israeli companyβs spyware, Graphite.
Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon werenβt notifying senators of surveillance requests TechCrunch By:Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 21 May 2025 at 18:42 Sen. Ron Wyden said in a letter that one U.S. phone carrier turned over Senate data to law enforcement without notifying the target.
Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit TechCrunch By:Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 10 May 2025 at 11:00 The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations. We recap some of them here.
Milwaukee Police Propose Trading Millions of Mugshots for Free Facial Recognition Access Gizmodo By:Vanessa Taylor 28 April 2025 at 11:55 The proposal raises serious privacy and ethical questions.
U.S. House Panel Says Chinaβs DeepSeek AI Is a βProfound Threatβ to National Security Gizmodo By:Thomas Maxwell 16 April 2025 at 20:20 In a new report, the bipartisan House committee came to the unsurprising finding that DeepSeek sends user data back to China.
Court document reveals locations of WhatsApp victims targeted by NSO spyware TechCrunch By:Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 9 April 2025 at 18:25 The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the βtrue scale of the spyware problem,β per one researcher.