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Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van

Schneier on Security

A used government surveillance van is for sale in Chicago: So how was this van turned into a mobile spying center? A videoscope and a borescope are very similar as they’re both cameras on the ends of optical fibers, so the same tech you’d use to inspect cylinder walls is also useful for surveillance.

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Iran’s Digital Surveillance Tools Leaked

Schneier on Security

It’s Iran’s turn to have its digital surveillance tools leaked : According to these internal documents, SIAM is a computer system that works behind the scenes of Iranian cellular networks, providing its operators a broad menu of remote commands to alter, disrupt, and monitor how customers use their phones.

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Applying AI to License Plate Surveillance

Schneier on Security

Neither is using them for bulk surveillance. Zayas’ lawyer Ben Gold contested the AI-gathered evidence against his client, decrying it as “dragnet surveillance.” Of those systems, 434 were stationary, attached to poles and signs, while the remaining 46 were mobile, attached to police vehicles.

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Surveillance by Driverless Car

Schneier on Security

San Francisco police are using autonomous vehicles as mobile surveillance cameras. Privacy advocates say the revelation that police are actively using AV footage is cause for alarm. This is very concerning,” Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) senior staff attorney Adam Schwartz told Motherboard.

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Predator Files: A Scathing Indictment of EU Surveillance Regulation

SecureWorld News

In a groundbreaking investigative report, the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) media network, with technical assistance from Amnesty International's Security Lab, has exposed the shocking extent of the global surveillance crisis and the glaring inadequacies of EU regulation in curbing it. Chairman, Cedric Leighton Associates, LLC.

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Sophisticated Hermit Mobile Spyware Heralds Wave of Government Surveillance

Dark Reading

At the SecTor 2022 conference in Toronto next month, researchers from Lookout will take a deep dive into Hermit and the shadowy world of mobile surveillance tools used by repressive regimes.

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Google TAG argues surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by ISPs to infect mobile users

Security Affairs

Researchers from Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) revealed that the Italian surveillance firm RCS Labs was helped by some Internet service providers (ISPs) in Italy and Kazakhstan to infect Android and iOS users with their spyware. ” reads the report published by Google. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.