Police must obtain a warrant before using a cell-site simulator to reveal a suspect’s location, the Fourth Circuit ruled.

Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.

Heading to a protest? Prep your phone, Signal, and lock screen before you go. Reduce what cops can pull off a seized device and map back to your network.

Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more th...

WhatsApp is not the most private messenger, but it's already where a lot of organizing happens. Step-by-step settings to keep your messages, groups, and contacts safer.

Decoys, masking, misdirection, and honeypots are all fairly common practices in cybersecurity. We decided to start experimenting. Try Kanary for free for 14 days.

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New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

WhatsApp is not the most private messenger, but it's already where a lot of organizing happens. Step-by-step settings to keep your messages, groups, and contacts safer.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

Palantir created ELITE, a powerful new app for ICE to target immigrants. The feds never published a legally required privacy assessment for it.

A Flock webinar teaches police how to surveil protests, fireworks shows, parades, bike races, and more.

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

Since 2001, Apple has been warning its users when they may have been targeted by spyware, using email, iMessage, and banners in their accounts. But in

The technology is under fire for how police officers have abused it. But it’s only the symptom of a larger problem.

Why activists might benefit from using a trusted VPN with ad-blocking and which ones we recommend (IVPN, Proton).

Securing your phone protects your whole community, not just you. Easy step-by-step guides for your phone, computer, Signal, browser, and accounts.

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.

Why National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 is so important.

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

Can CBP unlock your phone at the US border? You can refuse, with limits. How to prep before you fly, what your rights are, and when a secondary phone helps.

A guide to following Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles developed in the Bay Area.

During the raid, federal agents asked about links between the woman and Prairieland — suggesting a sprawling conspiracy that fits with Trump’s attacks on antifa.

The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges a...

Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.

The document, titled “Facial Recognition Activists.docx,” includes specific activists’ comments about MSG's facial recognition program and tweets criticizing it.

Federal officers arrested two more anti-ICE protesters Wednesday in the Twin Cities, with both going before a judge in St. Paul federal court hours later.

“They were asking me to inform,” said a protester, one of dozens contacted by the FBI, who was arrested while playing the cello at ICE’s Delaney Hall.

ICE investigators leaned on Signal communications to build their case against protesters. Take these steps to keep your chats safe.

A printable Know Your Rights poster for when FBI, ICE, DHS, or police come to your door. Includes the steps to take and space for your emergency contacts.

Hidden inside a building in Alabama, the FBI has created its own small town as a dedicated cyber training ground for simulating cyberattacks.

More than $1 billion is going toward security for the 2026 tournament. The bigger question is what happens to the surveillance infrastructure after the crowds go home.