Meta
Meta wants to automatically spy on "interesting moments" in your life, patent suggests
Zuck's tech can detect scenes of joy or happiness - then automatically capture images through the cameras in phones or smart glasses.
Surveillance
Spyware
Is WhatsApp still secure? Meta warns of zero-click spyware campaign
"Spyware companies must be held accountable for their unlawful actions."
Persuasive Technologies
Big ideas for 2025: The Intention Economy
Preparing for a future in which machines watch our every move - then sell predictions about our future behaviour to the data-industrial complex.
Surveillance
Invisible "face cloaking" camouflage can dodge facial recognition, defence contractor claims
Researchers discover a new way of protecting your identity with little more than small cosmetic touches.
Internet of Things
FBI: How to stop HiatusRAT nibbling at your China-branded web cameras
Does scanning campaign launched against vulnerable cameras have the fingerprints of the Chinese state?
Surveillance
China's secret surveillance tool has a strange limitation
Sinister spy software lets cops collect "extensive sensitive data" from people's phones and snap pictures from their camera