Edward Snowden, by his own account, grew up as a “shape-shifter.” His father worked for the Coast Guard, his mother...
October 24, 2019September 19, 2020
Snowden Talks to Joe Rogan
October 23, 2019September 19, 2020
Washington Post’s New Columnist Consults for NSO Spyware Firm That Helps Saudi Arabia Surveil Journalists
This Washington Post’s newest columnist, Juliette Kayyem, has a problem. “The NSO Group’s Pegasus technology has been used by governments...
October 10, 2019September 19, 2020
U.S. Adds Chinese Firms to Blacklist, Citing Repression of Muslim Minorities
The U.S. government is sanctioning 28 Chinese entities for involvement in the suppression of the Uighur people of China’s Xinjaing...
October 1, 2019September 19, 2020
Spanish Security Company Spied on Assange for the CIA
El Pais, the reliable Madrid daily, reports how the CIA kept tabs on Julian Assange while he was holed up...
September 11, 2019September 19, 2020
Border Patrol to Put an Indian Reservation Under Persistent Surveillance
In his book “Eyes in the Sky,” Arthur Michel Holland argues that “persistent surveillance” of American communities via “wide-area motion...
August 15, 2019September 19, 2020
Pentagon Testing Surveillance Balloons Over America
The Guardian reports that recently released documents from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reveal the previously unknown extent of the...
July 5, 2019September 19, 2020
China Surveillance App Targets Tourists in Xinjiang Province
No longer content with mass surveillance of their ethnic minority populations, the Chinese authorities have begun cybersurveillance of visitors to...
June 11, 2019September 19, 2020
Big Brother? New Turkish App Enables Expats to Report Erdogan Critics
The German counterintelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has accused the Turkish intelligence agency,...
June 3, 2019September 19, 2020
Saudis Deploy Israeli Spyware to Target Dissidents
Eli Lake, the pro-Israel Bloomberg columnist, thinks selling Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to Saudi Arabia not a good idea. Lake recently...
May 24, 2019May 30, 2020
U.S. Considers a Human Rights Policy in Xinjang
Should the Trump administration sanction Hikvision, a Chinese facial recognition firm deeply involved in the suppression of the Uighur people...
May 23, 2019May 30, 2020
Amnesty International Denounces Pegasus Spyware
From Amnesty International Research has documented the use of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to target a wide swathe of civil...
