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#surveillance

Perhaps the most striking revelation is that people working at Intellexa could allegedly remotely access the surveillance systems of at least some of its customers via TeamViewer, an off-the-shelf tool that allows users to connect to other computers over the internet. The remote access is shown in a leaked training video revealing privileged parts of the Predator spyware system, including its dashboard, as well as the "storage system containing photos, messages and all other surveillance data gathered from victims of the Predator spyware,"

Asif Merchant wants EDNY to provide all the spying the FBI did targeting him - or at least the spying that they say matches the calls he made while they were surveilling him. As you'll recall, Merchant is the Pakistani guy that EDNY arrested in July 2024 for allegedly soliciting someone to kill political targets, possibly including Donald Trump. Since then, Merchant has been sitting in prison, under communication restrictions, awaiting trial, which is currently scheduled for February 23, 2026.

Kelluu, a Finnish company located about 50 miles from the Russian border, is launching small, propeller-driven airships filled with hydrogen, which it believes can fill a gap in battlefield and border surveillance. The startup is already finding success with NATO, being the first to secure a deal with a Western nation through a new innovators' program run by the alliance.

Appel grew up in the Lamb of God, a patriarchal Christian covenant community. As he recounts in his newly released memoir, Cis White Gay: The Making of a Gender Heretic, members "pledge[d] fealty to a small group of self-appointed leaders," men served as "coordinators," women as "handmaids" (yes, that is what they were called), and wives were required to obey their "husband-masters."

A West London council is preparing to use drones to bolster its enforcement teams as local authorities across the country quietly build aerial surveillance fleets. A report by Hammersmith and Fulham council sets out plans to deploy drones to support its 70-strong law enforcement team, which issued more than 2,200 fines in 2024. The aircraft will be used to target anti-social behaviour and fly tipping.

The questions you ask yourself while learning reveal not just what you don't know but how you think, what confuses you, what excites you, how you make connections, and how you construct meaning from new information. Traditionally, much of this process happened in private-a child working through a math problem in their notebook, a teenager wondering about a concept while walking to school, someone lying in bed thinking about something they heard that day.

Slovenia's government has been accused of turning Roma neighbourhoods into security zones after the passing of a law giving police powers to raid and surveil homes in so-called high-risk areas. At midnight on Monday, the country's parliament backed the Sutar law, named after Ales Sutar, who was killed in an altercation with a 21-year-old Romany man after rushing to a nightclub following a distress call from his son. The incident outside the LokalPatriot club in Novo Mesto, in south Slovenia, last month led to a huge street protests, police being stationed in Roma neighbourhoods and the resignation of two ministers.

We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are inseparably interwoven. Innovation is increasingly framed not as a response to a concrete human need, but in terms of strategic advantage, deterrence, and national security. States and corporations alike are turning to technology which blurs the line between civilian life and military power to advance foreign policy agendas and to assert geopolitical dominance.

Technologies that have both military and civilian applications are known as "dual-use". Drone start-ups, arms giants, and satellite manufacturers are among the tech companies which are increasingly marketing surveillance products for both military and civil applications, leading to a blurring of the lines between the two domains. This has serious implications for our freedoms, the militarisation of our societies, and the use of publicly-funded research, particularly from the European Union.

In our latest issue, we're exposing surveillance logs that reveal racist policing; explaining the harms of Google's plan for Android app gatekeeping; and continuing our new series, Gate Crashing, exploring how the internet empowers people to take nontraditional paths into the traditional worlds of journalism, creativity, and criticism. Prefer to listen in? Check out our audio companion, where EFF Staff Attorney Mario Trujillo explainswhy Ring's upcoming facial recognition tool could violate the privacy rights of millions of people.Catch the conversation on YouTubeor the Internet Archive.

According to opposition groups, who have dubbed it the gag law, one of the most alarming aspects is the total power granted to the Nicaraguan Institute of Telecommunications and Postal Services (TELCOR). At the head of this agency is Nahima Diaz Flores, daughter of the National Police Chief, Commissioner Francisco Diaz, and sister-in-law of one of the presidential couple's sons.

Speaking during the inquiry's second evidence session on 29 October 2025, expert witnesses told Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights that, as it stands, the UK's "uncritical and deregulatory" approach to AI will fail to deal with the clear human rights harms presented by the technology. This includes harms related to surveillance and automated decision-making, which can variously impact both collective and individual rights to privacy, non-discrimination, and freedom of assembly; especially given the speed and scale at which the technology operates.

"It is time to ask a very simple question: Why? Why me? How is it possible that such a sophisticated and complex tool was used to spy on a private citizen, as if he were a drug trafficker or a subversive threat to the country? I have nothing more to say. Others must speak. Others must explain what happened."

At the first opportunity, Sarah runs from him, but he tackles and points a gun at her before deciding to let her make her choice. She can either get back in the van or let herself be caught by "them," the people who intend to kill her. So, she gets back in the van. While she's at it, she might as well get an answer from Downey: Who is "they"?

The mother of Stephen Lawrence is pressing for the cowardly undercover police officer who spied on her family's campaign for justice to be questioned at a public inquiry. The spycops inquiry has previously ruled that the undercover officer, David Hagan, was too ill to give live evidence, after submissions by his lawyers. But this ruling is to be challenged on Monday by Doreen Lawrence and many victims of covert surveillance who argue that Hagan is a key witness in a crucial issue that is being examined by the inquiry.

The Convention took five years to develop and has three purposes: Promote and strengthen measures to prevent and combat cybercrime more efficiently and effectively; Promote, facilitate and strengthen international cooperation in preventing and combating cybercrime; and Promote, facilitate and support technical assistance and capacity-building to prevent and combat cybercrime, in particular for the benefit of developing countries. Those goals are hard to oppose.

Milliman was convinced that Elser had stolen a package off someone's stoop. As evidence, Milliman had obtained records compiled by Flock, a controversial police surveillance startup that's taking the United States by storm. As a display of the department's technological panopticon, Milliman noted the woman had driven through Bow Mar "20 times the last month." "Like I said, we have cameras everywhere in that town," the officer reiterated.

In the digital age, the collaborative and often community-governed effort of scholarly research has gone global and unlocked unprecedented potential to improve our understanding and quality of life. That is, if we let it. Publishers continue to monopolize access to life-saving research and increase the burden on researchers through article processing charges and a pyramid of volunteer labor . This exploitation makes a mockery of open inquiry and the denial of access as a serious human rights issue .

The LOI presents a structural flaw that undermines compliance with the principles of legality, legitimate purpose, suitability, necessity, and proportionality; it inverts the rule and the exception, with serious harm to rights enshrined constitutionally and under the Convention; and it prioritizes indeterminate state interests, in contravention of the ultimate aim of intelligence activities and state action, namely the protection of individuals, their rights, and freedoms.

"I wonder what might have happened if we'd intervened," an audience member mused at the end of Shaking the Tree's latest production, Dancing on the Sabbath. At check-in, we'd received a note on letterhead from the Office of Royal Protection-its black logo depicting an eyeball wearing a crown-explaining we would surveil five misbehaving princesses through an invisibility cloak. As Crown-sanctioned Watchers for the night, the audience's task was to discover how the King's daughters escaped their locked chambers and to follow them wherever they went.

Smart glasses, like the newly revealed Meta Ray-Ban Displays, solve lots of problems. They can provide live translation and captions while chatting with a foreign friend, they can use provide turn-by-turn directions and a mini map so you don't get lost on the way to that new coffeeshop, they can take pictures so you're not fumbling with your phone while enjoying a sunset or nature walk.

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next? People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence. The internet once helped trans people connect and organize. Now it's a dangerous liability. What comes next? How do resources on transitioning survive the era of surveillance and AI slop? The anonymity granted by the internet is a lifeline to many trans people. What happens when that privacy disappears?

In May of this year, 404 Media published evidence that Illinois automated license plate reader data was being accessed on behalf of federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as directly by law enforcement agencies across the country, including in Texas, who used the information for immigration enforcement and to monitor people seeking abortions.

A smelly, morbidly-obese married Long Island lawyer allegedly tormented his much younger lover for years - setting up secret cameras in her apartment, a tracker in her car, and a keystroke recorder on her computer. Ronald David Ingber allegedly manipulated the Bergen County woman until she was isolated from her family and dependent on him, then blasted out sexual photos and videos of her to friends and family when she tried to leave, she said in a lawsuit.

We are in a time of distress. We are in a time of total degradation of democracy. Orwell wrote that the degradation of language is the condition for the degradation.

In today's episode, Zoë Schiffer is joined by senior politics editor Leah Feiger to run through five stories that you need to know about this week-from the Antifa professor who's fleeing to Europe for safety, to how some chatbots are manipulating users to avoid saying goodbye. Then, Zoë and Leah break down why a recent announcement from OpenAI rattled the markets and answer the question everyone is wondering-are we in an AI bubble?

OpenAI has published research revealing how state-sponsored and cybercriminal groups are abusing artificial intelligence (AI) to spread malware and perform widespread surveillance. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, ZDNET's parent company, filed an April 2025 lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) AI has benefits in the cybersecurity space; it can automate tedious and time-consuming tasks, freeing up human specialists to focus on complex projects and research, for example.