USA government is asking for software to scan for “hidden” language on mobile devices at the border

https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/07/us-government-seeks-tool-to-find-hidden-language-in-messages-on-your-phone/
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Le gouvernement états-unien demande pour des logiciels pour chercher les appareils mobiles pour du langage « masqué » à la frontière.

// Article en anglais //

"Also at odds with the G7 statement is Canada’s own proposed border-security bill (C-2), which has been widely condemned by this author and numerous other rights groups for the ways it may open up transborder surveillance by foreign governments into Canada. As written, the bill might actually facilitate further transnational repression.

As my Citizen Lab colleague Kate Robertson noted in a recent analysis, Bill C-2 “contains several areas where proposed powers appear designed to roll out a welcome mat for expanded data-sharing treaties or agreements with the United States, and other foreign law-enforcement authorities.” In light of the authoritarian train wreck unfolding in the U.S., and the prospect of high-risk individuals fleeing that country for Canada, such data-sharing could conceivably become a tool of transnational repression used by our closest neighbour, not to mention other repressive regimes.

Pledges are important and the Canadian-backed G7 statement on countering transnational repression and abuse of spyware is certainly a very welcome one. But for Canada to actually translate those pledges into meaningful laws and policies will require some serious self-reckoning about how our own past and current practices are actually implicated in the very acts we have once again condemned."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-g7-transnational-repression-bill-c-2-carney/

I asked the question : Do you want a laptop with Copilot+?

1% said yes.
96% said (hell) no.
3% were not sure.

This is a great example of something being pushed that most really do not want.

Big Tech is very focused on winning the AI war. Problem is, that in their eagerness to do that, they focus just on what they want you to do, instead of what you want to do.

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Microsoft #Computer #Spyware #AI #Copilot #Technology #Vivaldi @Vivaldi #BigTech

It looks like Google wants to do the same thing that Microsoft has done with copilot
That means they want to snoop through your whole Android with Gemini

It is not opt in, you have to opt out!

They're changing the TOS so you have to opt out

Details on how to disable it are on this blog post however it doesn't work on at least two of my Androids because I can't even find the app yet!

#InfoSec #Gemini #Google #Alphabet #Enshittification #spyware #malware

https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android#disable-gemini-on-android-in-settings

A flaw in #Catwatchful #spyware exposed logins of +62,000 users
https://securityaffairs.com/179620/malware/a-flaw-in-catwatchful-spyware-exposed-logins-of-62000-users.html
#securityaffairs #hacking #malware

Smashing Security podcast #424: Surveillance, spyware, and self-driving snafus https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-424/ #locationtracking #Lawℴ #Podcast #Privacy #spyware #Mobile #Mexico #Tesla #car #FBI

Data #breach reveals #Catwatchful 'stalkerware' is #spying on thousands of phones | TechCrunch

A #security #vulnerability in a stealthy #Android #spyware operation called Catwatchful has exposed thousands of its customers, including its administrator.
#stalkerware #stalker #privacy

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/data-breach-reveals-catwatchful-stalkerware-spying-on-thousands-android-phones/

More and more laptops now come with Copilot+, that includes stuff like Recall, that takes a screenshot of your screen every few seconds.

This is marketed heavily, but do you want it?

“British Medical Association [BMA] severs ties with Israel over Gaza, Palantir”

by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox

@palestine
@israel

“Doctors overwhelmingly tell professional body to end links because of genocide and infiltration of pro-Israel spyware firm into NHS”

https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/02/british-medical-association-severs-ties-with-israel-over-gaza-palantir/

#IGF25: Diktatoren und Demokraten im globalen Süden als Kunden von #Spyware | heise online https://www.heise.de/news/IGF25-Diktatoren-und-Demokraten-im-globalen-Sueden-als-Kunden-von-Spyware-10463332.html #Malware #surveillance #Überwachung #Datenschutz #privacy #InternetGovernanceForum #IGF

Utrecht celebrates Orwell’s birthday...
#Utrecht #Orwell #surveillance #spyware