Premium content: This is a sneak peek at our forthcoming subscriber-exclusive Confidential Informant newsletter, your essential guide to privacy in a world under surveillance. Flock Safety, the company that has deployed more than 85,000 license plate reader cameras across the country, is arguably one of the most controversial names inContinue Reading
Two websites run by the U.S. Army were defaced by hackers on Monday with messages attacking President Traitor 47. The websites, oil.army.mil and ai2c.army.mil, displayed messages referring to The Traitor as a “pedophile and thief” while also criticizing U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack. The phrase “FREE KURDISTAN” was prominentlyContinue Reading
A security researcher is sounding the alarm about a flaw in Apple’s “Hide My Email” feature. The feature, it seems, could actually expose users’ actual email addresses. “Hide My Email,” available to users of Apple’s iCloud+ service, generates random email addresses for use across the web that forward any messagesContinue Reading
The Supreme Court on Monday sent a case involving “geofence warrants” back to a lower court. Geofence warrants are an investigative tool used by law enforcement to determine what cell phones were near the scene of a crime. In a 6-3 decision, the justices tossed out a ruling from aContinue Reading
Kat Vaughn was walking her two children home from a park when she noticed an unfamiliar device installed in her lawn. “We didn’t receive anything in the mail,” Vaughn told WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, where she lives. “I double checked to make sure that there was no emails or anythingContinue Reading
As the United States marks its 250th birthday, Straight Arrow is taking a fresh look at the institutions, systems and social contracts that shaped modern America — and the pressures now testing them. The Watergate scandal of the 1970s began with a botched surveillance attempt. Five men working for PresidentContinue Reading