If you were recently at Montreal's Trudeau International Airport, someone may have been spying on your cellphone. A Radio-Canada reporter detected the presence of an electronic surveillance device ...

According to BuzzFeed News, Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Ted Lieu will introduce legislation later today that seeks to restrict police use of international mobile subscriber ...

The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation have filed an amicus brief in what will be the first case in the country to address the constitutional implications of a so-called “stingray,” a little ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new software tool that it hopes can alert people (such as protesters) when someone (such as police) may be operating an IMSI catcher (commonly ...

Apple wants to use encryptions to make “stingray” phone spying tools obsolete. The move is likely to be controversial because while these are used by criminals they are also employed by police. A ...

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Despite concerns that federal authorities might fine or arrest him, hacker Chris Paget went ahead with a live demonstration of mobile phone interception at the Defcon hacking conference Saturday.

People use their mobile phones outside a government office in Makati on April 24, 2023. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File MANILA — The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) ...

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