Police State

Android trojan pretends to shut down device then spies on user. I wonder who would make such a trojan.

Canada's proposed anti-terrorism bill will seriously degrade privacy in Canada. Join the club.

Police use metadata alone to prosecute CIA Merlin whistleblower as spy. This is how the NSA has taken over the government.

This supposedly anonymous network for whistleblowers will be crawling with NSA spies. They have broken the internet.

All your gadgets are spying on you. Don't forget the internet of things.

NSA and GCHQ hacked into the largest SIM supplier to intercept all voice and data on cell phones.

"The company named in the report is Gemalto, a Netherlands company that makes SIM cards, with clients reportedly including Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and 450 more providers from around the world. The spy agencies obtained encryption keys — which The Intercept described as "the keys to the castle" — allowing American and British government officials to monitor mobile communications, potentially without warrants or wiretaps."

They've broken everything. Billions of phones affected.

Police use contracts with FBI as an excuse to keep Stingray information secret, but laws about public disclosure make those contracts null and void.