Skip to content CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the US Border Over the Past Year
The recent spike in searches at the border has mostly been driven by an increase in the past six months. ...
Read more Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
That suggests anyone could set up similar hardware somewhere else in the world and likely obtain their own collection of ...
Read more ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors ...
Read more DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years
The expansion has been driven by specific legal and bureaucratic levers. Foremost was an April 2020 Justice Department rule that ...
Read more How to Set Up and Use a Burner Phone
When you are done with the burner phone, make sure that you get rid of it in a thoughtful way ...
Read more A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users
The Department of Homeland Security’s mandate to carry out domestic surveillance has been a concern for privacy advocates since the ...
Read more How China’s Propaganda and Surveillance Systems Really Operate
A trove of internal documents leaked from a little-known Chinese company has pulled back the curtain on how digital censorship ...
Read more Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After a quarter century defending digital rights, Cindy Cohn announced on Tuesday that she is stepping down as executive director ...
Read more Massive Leak Shows How a Chinese Company Is Exporting the Great Firewall to the World
A leak of more than 100,000 documents shows that a little-known Chinese company has been quietly selling censorship systems seemingly ...
Read more From Cheating Exposés to Dating Background Checks, TikTok Detectives Are Thriving
In the case of Andy Byron, of Coldplay concert infamy, there are multiple articles asking “who is his wife?” and ...
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