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Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel

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Once you build a surveillance system, you can’t control who will use it: A hacker working for the Sinaloa drug cartel was able to obtain an FBI official’s phone records and use Mexico City’s surveillance cameras to help track and kill the agency’s informants in 2018, according to a new US justice department report.

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Surveillance in the US

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In the thread, called the “Southern Oregon Analyst Group,” some members talked about making fake social media profiles to surveil people, and others discussed being excited to learn and try new surveillance techniques.

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Surveillance Watch

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This is a fantastic project mapping the global surveillance industry.

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Surveillance Via Smart Toothbrush

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The only links are from The Daily Mail and The Mirror , but a marital affair was discovered because the cheater was recorded using his smart toothbrush at home when he was supposed to be at work.

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Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network

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Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. Here’s the Consumer Reports study.

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Ubiquitous Surveillance by ICE

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Report by Georgetown’s Center on Privacy and Technology published a comprehensive report on the surprising amount of mass surveillance conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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ICE Is a Domestic Surveillance Agency

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Georgetown has a new report on the highly secretive bulk surveillance activities of ICE in the US: When you think about government surveillance in the United States, you likely think of the National Security Agency or the FBI. You might even think of a powerful police agency, such as the New York Police Department.