Cops wanted to keep mass surveillance app secret; privacy advocates refused

Cyphers concluded that “Fog’s service allows police to track people’s movements”—both broadly and specifically—”over long periods of time.” Police can start by searching everyone in an area and then toggle to the device search to find out where people connected to those devices “live and work.” This, Cyphers wrote, allows local police the same capability … Read more

In the GOP’s new surveillance state, everyone’s a snitch.

These laws do not stop at targeting society’s most vulnerable. They also attack the legal and social norms that underpin our system of government. They turn citizens into spies in a surveillance scheme more reminiscent of a totalitarian state, and shred the vital principle that the laws are applied equally to all people. These laws … Read more