Brian Merchant, writing for Blood in the Machine, reports that people across the United States are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras, amid growing public anger that license plate readers are helping US immigration authorities and deportations. Flock is an Atlanta-based startup valued at $7.5 billion a year ago and a manufacturer of license plate … Read more
Last year, phone-hacking tool maker Cellebrite announced it had suspended Serbian police as a customer after human rights researchers alleged local police and intelligence agencies used its tools to hack into the phones of journalists and activists and spread spyware. This was a rare instance of Cellebrite publicly cutting off a customer after documented allegations … Read more
A government customer of sanctioned spyware maker Intellex has hacked the phone of a prominent journalist in Angola, in what Amnesty International says is the latest case of targeting someone in civil society using powerful phone-hacking software. A human rights organization published a new report on Tuesday analyzing several attempted hacking attacks against local journalist … Read more