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- The Big Secret That Makes the FBI's Anti-Encryption Campaign a Big Lie
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
McLaughlin discusses how hacking techniques and their increasing use are justified in a prevalent way by the American government.
- Capitalist Surveillance State: Everyone's a Target
Threatening Reporters, Spying on Public
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
There is an inherent tendency for the state, which governs on behalf of a minuscule, ruthless class of obscenely wealthy exploiters, to attempt to amass ever greater power to control the population because it hates and fears the working people.
- Companies that cooperate with dictatorships must be sanctioned
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders condemns the criminal cooperation that exists between many western companies, especially those operating in the new technology area, and authoritarian regimes.
- Cookie Monster: the Nuts and Bolts of Online Tracking
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Big Tech has become notorious for its hoarding of its users' personal data, collected with great breadth and down to minute details. Billions have been paid by online platforms to settle legal charges over their invasive and reckless privacy follies.
- Ethiopia: Hacking Team Lax on Evidence of Abuse
Leaked Documents Show Need to Regulate Surveillance Sales
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Italian spyware firm Hacking Team took no effective action to investigate or stop reported abuses of its technology by the Ethiopian government against dissidents.
- FBI director wants access to encrypt Apple, Google users' data, demands law 'fix'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The FBI director has slammed Apple and Google for offering their customers encryption technology that protects users’ privacy. "Deeply concerned" James Comey wants to push on Congress to "fix" laws to ensure police can still access private data.
- Google Deceptively Tracks Students' Internet Browsing, EFF Says in FTC Complaint
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
EFF Launches 'Spying on Students' Campaign to Raise Awareness About Privacy Risks of School Technology Tools
- Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Behind our screens, tech companies are racing to extract a price for what we read and watch on the web: our personal information.
- Google voice search records and keeps conversations people have around their phones - but the files can be deleted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
How google search can record and store conversations picked up by a phone's microphone, as well as how to prevent this and delete the stored files.
- Google's new advertising program tracks offline line shoppers, violates privacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The privacy watchdog Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) filed a formal complaint against Google alleging that the company's new advertising program violates consumer privacy.
- Inside the Spyware Campaign Against Argentine Troublemakers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor known for doggedly investigating a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing, was targeted by invasive spy software downloaded onto his cellular phone shortly before his mysterious death. The software masqueraded as a confidential document and was intended to infect a Windows computer. An investigation by The Intercept indicates that this targeting was likely not an isolated event.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Is Your Printer Spying On You?
Resource Type: Article
Imagine that every time you printed a document it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer - and potentially the person who used it.
- Israeli spyware being used to monitor Indonesian LGBT community, religious minorities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A look at the company and spyware product that is used by various institutions to monitor the activities of the LGBT community and religious minority groups in Indonesia.
- Manipulating Reality: Facebook is Listening to You
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
One thing we have become all too used to is that our reality can be manipulated to create the appearance of something else entirely. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are passed off as democracy in action, more guns (or more nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
- New Street-Level Surveillance Project Tracks Spying Technologies Used by Local Law Enforcement
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
EFF Web Portal Provides In-Depth Resources About License Plate Readers, Biometric Collection, and Other High-Tech Surveillance Tools.
- An Online Tracking Device That’s Virtually Impossible to Block
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A new kind of tracking tool, canvas fingerprinting, is being used to follow visitors to thousands of top websites, from WhiteHouse.gov to YouPorn.
- Police State: US Government-Funded Database Created to Track "Subversive Propaganda" Online
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The creation of the Truthy database by Indiana University researchers has drawn sharp criticism from free-speech advocates and others concerned over government censorship of political expression.
- Privacy Badger 1.0 Blocks the Sneakiest Kinds of Online Tracking
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Privacy Badger 1.0, a browser extension that blocks some of the sneakiest trackers that try to spy on your Web browsing habits.
- Revealed: how Whisper app tracks ‘anonymous’ users
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The company behind Whisper, the social media app that promises users anonymity and claims to be “the safest place on the internet”, is tracking the location of its users, including some who have specifically asked not to be followed.
- RSF backs Moroccan NGO targeted by interior ministry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
It’s ironic. Moroccan journalists and human rights activists who have been the targets of government spying would be justified in bringing complaints against the authorities over the violation their privacy.
- Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Morgan Marquis-Boire works as a Google engineer and Bill Marczak is earning a Ph.D. in computer science. But this summer, the two men have been moonlighting as detectives, chasing an elusive surveillance tool from Bahrain across five continents.
- Stop Sneaky Online Tracking with EFF's Privacy Badger
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other embedded content that tracks you without your permission. See https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
- Surveillance firms spied on campaign groups for big companies, leak shows
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
British Airways, the Royal Bank of Scotland and Porsche are among five large companies that have been identified as having paid corporate intelligence firms to monitor political groups that challenged their businesses, leaked documents reveal.
- The War Against "Fake News" is a War on Us
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Barely a day passes without a new development in the war on social media -- that is, the war on us. Today, it is a report that Twitter has emailed hundreds of thousands of its users, warning them that they shared "Russian propaganda".
- You selling to me?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Individually targeted online marketing, based on unwittingly supplied consumer information and monitoring of online activities, is replacing conventional advertising media.
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