Drawing on open source data including satellite imagery, Chinese government documents, official statistics and a range of authoritative reports and...
September 24, 2020September 25, 2020
Xinjiang Data Project Documents China’s High Tech Social Controls
August 3, 2020September 23, 2020
DHS Reassigns Official Following Intelligence Reports On Journalists
The norm that the U.S. government shouldn’t collect intelligence on a free press still has some force, it seems. Brian...
June 25, 2020September 19, 2020
Barton Gellman on Edward Snowden and the Threat of ‘Turnkey Authoritarianism’
I recently spoke with Barton Gellman, former Washington Post reporter and author of “Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American...
June 22, 2020September 23, 2020
Israel Nearly Doubled Exports of Surveillance Systems in 2018
Israel is a world leader in surveillance technology, with veterans of the Mossad and the military’s Unit 8200, a cyberwar...
June 16, 2020September 19, 2020
The Five Eyes Block the Huawei Challenge
[Inside the Five Eyes: a series: Part 1 |Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 is...
April 5, 2020September 23, 2020
India’s RAW Roped in to Coronavirus Tracing
As India locks down in the face of the global pandemic, the country’s intelligence service, the Research & Analysis Wing,...
March 30, 2020September 23, 2020
Why Did the CIA Wiretap My Father, Journalist Paul Scott?
This true story comes from the Annapolis (Md.) Gazette. My father Paul Scott was a nationally syndicated reporter whose column...
March 16, 2020September 23, 2020
‘Electronic Authoritarianism:’ How MBS Rose to Power in Saudi Arabia
A new biography of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), by Ben Hubbard, describes how he perfected “electronic authoritarianism.”...
February 26, 2020September 23, 2020
$100 Million NSA Program Produced Exactly Two Unique Leads
Mass surveillance, whether you approve of it morally, is not practical. It does not enhance the safety of the American...
February 25, 2020September 23, 2020
Indian Journalists Say They’ve Been Targeted by NSO Spyware
The Columbia Journalism review reports that five Indian journalists have been notifed by WhatsApp of attempts to hack their phone....
February 10, 2020September 23, 2020
Four Members of Chinese Military Charged With 2017 Hack at Equifax
From The Washington Post: In a nine-count indictment filed in federal court in Atlanta, federal prosecutors alleged that four members...
February 3, 2020September 19, 2020
Sen. Mark Warner Wants to Fund Huawei Competitors
Huawei or the highway? As that question divides the U.S. and U.K. intelligence communities, Sen. Mark Warner, ranking member of...
