2026-04-12
6/ You're 🇪🇺European? Protected by #GDPR, right? — It may be a paper wall. — We sent 96 FOI requests & got some dubious answers. — Meanwhile our collaborator @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social found multiple intel agencies in 🇭🇺#Hungary using Cobweb products. …
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
@penlink ... 11/ Help starve the ADINT dragnet. Do this now: iPhone: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy & Security➡️ Tracking Turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track” Android: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy ➡️ Ads ➡️Delete Advertising ID It's only a beginning, but you don't owe any of these companies a drop of [image]
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our latest @citizenlab investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 [image]
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
2026-04-11
6/ You're 🇪🇺European? Protected by #GDPR, right? — It may be a paper wall. — We sent 96 FOI requests & got some dubious answers. — Meanwhile our collaborator @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social found multiple intel agencies in 🇭🇺#Hungary using Cobweb products. …
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our latest @citizenlab investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 [image]
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
@penlink ... 11/ Help starve the ADINT dragnet. Do this now: iPhone: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy & Security➡️ Tracking Turn off “Allow Apps to Request to Track” Android: ⚙️Settings➡️Privacy ➡️ Ads ➡️Delete Advertising ID It's only a beginning, but you don't owe any of these companies a drop of [image]
The Citizen Lab
An investigation details Webloc, an ad-based geo surveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of records from up to 500M mobile devices
Location data collected from mobile apps and digital advertising can reveal habits, interests and almost any other aspect of someone's life.
2026-03-11
NEW: foreign hacker compromised Epstein files held by #FBI — “included combing through certain files pertaining to the Epstein investigation” — Source describes it as cybercriminal. — Previously all we knew was: there was some sort of breach. 1/ — By @raphae.li — www.reuters.com/world/us/for... …
Reuters
Docs and a source: a foreign hacker compromised the FBI's Jeffrey Epstein investigation files in 2023; the FBI says the “cyber incident” was “an isolated one”
A foreign hacker compromised files relating to the FBI's investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during …
2026-03-05
Seen this viral tweet about a portable audio jammer? Looks cool, right? It also looks quite similar to 100s products sold on Alibaba & in spy shops for years. Or as DIY kits for $50 in parts. They use ultrasonic noise to overwhelm very close-by microphones. I'm skeptical [image]
The Daily Dot
Deveillance's upcoming anti-surveillance device, Spectre I, went viral after its founder said it blocks nearby listening devices with AI, but some are skeptical
2026-02-14
Now, should you trust @ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. But this shows that pressure works. Be the backlash against surveillance that you want to see in the world. Voice your disgust over surveillance grabs & show it by cancelling subscriptions and tossing devices. 1/
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
2/ Ring just learned a lesson: Americans want more privacy, not less. — We're suspicious of big tech companies encroaching on our personal lives & prepared to show it. — Lawmakers take note: pushing back on mass surveillance = grassroots support. — By @jp2e.bsky.social …
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
2026-02-13
2/ Ring just learned a lesson: Americans want more privacy, not less. — We're suspicious of big tech companies encroaching on our personal lives & prepared to show it. — Lawmakers take note: pushing back on mass surveillance = grassroots support. — By @jp2e.bsky.social …
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial surveillance company.
BREAKING: Ring just cancelled their partnership with #Flock. Now, should you trust @ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. But this shows that pressure works. Be the backlash against surveillance that you want to see in the world. Voice your disgust over [image]
The Verge
Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety, which would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, after backlash
After weeks of mounting pressure and a questionable Super Bowl ad, the Amazon-owned company has walked back its plan to integrate with the controversial surveillance company.
2026-02-12
3/ Russia is very clearly building a digital apparatus of mass control. The history of autocrats trying to replace popular and private foreign apps with homegrown surveillance tools is not new. But Russia is the biggest experiment yet. By @MehulAtLarge & @NastyaStognei
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
@MehulAtLarge @NastyaStognei 4/ Russia has more than 100 million @whatsapp users despite the government shenanigans And it seems far more likely that, instead of displacing all of them to the Max app, Russia is about to push an unprecedented volume of traffic over VPNs. By @markc_anderson
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
2/ Russia has been degrading alternatives to the Max app for a while... all while pushing the app in various ways. Like forcing all new phones sold in RU to have it pre-installed. This week marks the biggest yet push to centralize a whole country into one surveillance mega-app. [image]
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
NEW: Russia's digital iron curtain is slamming shut. They just began a @WhatsApp block among other services. Behind the curtain? Russians are being pushed to use the Max app, which has zero encryption, connects with gov services & looks exactly like a mass surveillance tool. [image]
Financial Times
Russia removes WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram from a Roskomnadzor-run online directory, essentially blocking them in the country, unless users rely on a VPN
2026-02-03
2. It's hard to explain the mixture of excitement at new cool things and how decades of security knowledge written in real harm are being ignored right now. [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
3. Behind the 1.5 million AI agents on @moltbook ? Something closer to 17k likely human owners. And zero mechanism to validate what was what. In fact, a human could post to it just using an HTTP POST request. And any user could be impersonated.... https://www.wiz.io/... [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
NEW: @moltbook had a vulnerability exposing all users emails, real names etc. +other security mistakes & misconfigurations. @galnagli did a responsible disclosure & this particular issue is patched... Big pic: vibecoding is getting great at making things that just work... but are insecure out of the box.
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …
2026-02-02
3. Behind the 1.5 million AI agents on @moltbook ? Something closer to 17k likely human owners. And zero mechanism to validate what was what. In fact, a human could post to it just using an HTTP POST request. And any user could be impersonated.... https://www.wiz.io/... [image]
Reuters
Wiz says Moltbook had a major flaw that exposed private messages, emails, and credentials; Wiz co-founder Ami Luttwak called the flaw a byproduct of vibe coding
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners …