2023-06-12
People in prison are often used as testing ground for surveillance tech: “the wristbands, which don't have screens or GPS, can track people's heart rate—oxygen tracking is coming to a future version—and communicate with the sensors in the walls. https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
Documents detail new prison-monitoring tech, tracking inmates' location, heartbeats, and more, developed by Talitrix and used in Atlanta's Fulton County Jail
Documents WIRED obtained detail new prison-monitoring technology that keeps tabs on inmates' location, heartbeats, and more. Mastodon: @mattburgess@infosec.exchange . Tweets: @svar...
2023-05-23
After years of work on this issue, it still shocking to me that many countries called to legislate on something this important (supposedly helped by experts) have an approach to encryption that is basically magical thinking. https://twitter.com/...
Wired
Leaked responses from 20 countries to an EU proposal show the majority favor some form of scanning encrypted messages, with Spain wanting an EU-wide E2EE ban
In response to an EU proposal to scan private messages for illegal material, the country's officials said it is “imperative that we have access to the data.”
2022-12-08
In which the Greek government admits that it gave Intellexa licenses to sell Predator to Madagascar, a country with a history of repression. (nice to see @insidestory_gr getting recognition for groundbreaking reporting) https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware
which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergm...
The article also has an important view from the US, new tools, tension between strong regulations and needs of agencies like the DEA. And a very predictable - yet botched - attempt of Intellexa to market their tools to the Ukrainian government. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
An investigation shows how, despite US sanctions on the NSO Group, government spyware use is booming, including the DEA's secret deployment of Graphite spyware
which employ former Israeli cyberintelligence veterans. After questions from The New York Times, the Greek government admitted that it gave one of them, Ronen Bergman / @ronenbergm...