Israel’s top court ruled Monday the government must curb its use of the domestic spy agency to track coronavirus infections, saying “draconian” surveillance constituted a blow to democracy.
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Apple plans to roll out a new privacy control in the early spring to prevent iPhone apps from secretly shadowing people. That puts the feature on course to come out after a more than six-month delay aimed at placating Facebook and other digital services that depend on such data surveillance to help sell ads.
Read moreA federal court in Florida ordered the destruction of “unlawfully obtained” surveillance footage of the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida, recorded between Jan. 18 and Jan. 22, 2019. The order, requested on behalf of a John Doe, pertains to video that allegedly shows New England Patriots owner Rovert Kraft of engaging in paid sex acts. Prosecutors last year dropped charges against Kraft relating to the prostitution sting.
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On a small boat on the choppy waters of Stockholm’s archipelago, four maritime archaeologists pulled on wetsuits and prepared to dive into the Baltic to survey a merchant ship that sank nearly 500 years ago.
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New research revealed Friday has shed new light on the companies around the world that carry out fishing operations in Earth’s most unregulated waters, as satellite data revealed their activities amid concerns of violations of labor and environmental laws and overfishing.
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China tech giant Alibaba offered face-recognition software that could enable users to identify Uighurs, a report said, making it the latest Chinese company embroiled in the country’s controversial treatment of the Muslim minority.
Read moreA class of Amazon Flex drivers claim the e-retailing giant spies on their private Facebook group to gather information about planned strikes and protests, unionizing efforts and warehouse and driving conditions.
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Google has been given two weeks to respond to a US labor board complaint accusing the internet giant of using surveillance, interrogation and other tactics to spy on activist employees.
Read moreCarter Page, the former Trump campaign associate whom the FBI secretly surveilled as part of the Russia investigation, claims in a federal complaint that he was the victim of “unlawful spying.”
Read moreCongressman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., claims the Washington Post and one of its reporters defamed him in a November article suggesting he believed certain White House intelligence files would support his “baseless claims” the Obama administration spied on Trump Tower.
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BERLIN (AP) — Digital rights campaigners on Monday criticized a proposal by European Union governments that calls for communications companies
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A Ninth Circuit judge laid out a catch-22 scenario Monday for five Verizon and AT&T customers fighting to revive a class action over what they claim is the government’s unlawful use of mass surveillance programs to spy on American citizens.
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Former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden said Monday that he and his wife intend to apply for Russian citizenship without renouncing their U.S. citizenship.
Read moreTwo American citizens are among the five people arrested Wednesday morning, on the east and west coasts, charged with conspiring to help the Chinese government stalk, threaten and extradite a New Jersey resident.
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Activists claim in a new lawsuit that the San Francisco Police Department violated a local ordinance by tapping into a network of 400 private surveillance cameras to spy on Black Lives Matter protesters this year.
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German data protection authorities said Wednesday they fined Swedish clothing chain H&M more than 35 million euros ($41 million) over illegal “surveillance” of its employees.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit upheld the convictions of four members of the Somali diaspora for sending, or conspiring to send, funds to Somalia to support a terrorist organization. The court ruled that although the government “may have violated the Fourth Amendment” by collecting metadata on millions of Americans, including at least one of the defendants, suppression of evidence is not warranted based on the facts of the case.
Read moreA federal court in Maryland ruled that certain plaintiffs who are included in the government’s Terrorism Screening Database and various related watchlists may pursue their Religious Freedom Restoration Act claims against the government.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing of unlawful search and discrimination claims brought by three Muslim residents of California who alleged the FBI used an informant to infiltrate several Los Angeles and Orange County mosques to “conduct a covert surveillance program that gathered information about Muslims based solely on their religious identity.”
Read moreA federal judge in California on Thursday refused to dismiss an Israeli software company from a lawsuit brought by Facebook-owned Whatsapp that claims the company used malware to spy on the messenger service’s users, particularly human rights advocates and journalists.
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