La Liga was found to be using the microphone and GPS on Android devices during match times.
The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations
In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device’s microphone. But researchers have found there’s another, little-considered sensor in modern phones that can also listen in on their conversations. And it doesn’t even need to ask. In a presentation at \[…\]
LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.
216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem
SnoopSnitch - Apps on Google Play
Show missing security patches. Find mobile abuse (IMSI catchers & stealth SMS).
Hackers Can Silently Control Siri From 16 Feet Away
A clever attack by French researchers turns your headphone cable into an antenna to send surreptitious voice commands.
Haven is for people who need a way to protect their personal areas and possessions without compromising their privacy. It is an Android application that leverages on-device sensors to provide monitoring and protection of physical areas. Haven turns any Android phone into a motion, sound, vibration and light detector, watching for unexpected guests and unwanted intruders. We designed Haven for investigative journalists, human rights defenders and people at risk of forced disappearance to create a new kind of herd immunity. By combining the array of sensors found in any smartphone, with the world’s most secure communications technologies, like Signal and Tor, Haven prevents the worst kind of people from silencing citizens without getting caught in the act.
Et si l’interdiction du portable avait déclenché la révolte des lycéens ?
En levant les yeux de leur smartphone, les élèves ont découvert un monde insupportable
Ukrainian police use cellphones to track protesters, court order shows
Tower dumps" help government profile people attending demonstrations.
Japan police panel urges remote phone analysis to fight anonymous crime groups
TOKYO -- A Japan police advisory panel has proposed the early introduction of remote analysis of smartphones used by anonymous, fluid crime groups, de
Facebook is ‘using your phone to listen to everything you say’
The company says that it does use peoples' microphones, but only to help them out – and there’s an easy way of turning it off
The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
Revealed: how Russia uses mobile ‘super-app’ Max to spy on its citizens
Research shows tens of millions of people are being forced to use platform that amounts to ‘backdoor’ on their device
Japan’s police to monitor ‘tokuryū’ use of confidential messaging apps
The method involves remote-controlling smartphones and other devices of high-ranking tokuryū members to access communication records and other information.
