Here is one company’s promise on its website to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on someone else’s cellphone: “You could now listen in 100% completely undetected.” The average person now has easy access to spy technology allowing them to gather cellphone information, read private emails, and track someone’s location using GPS. Experts say that the technologies are […]
Wikileaks Spy Files Target Forensic Companies
In December, Wikileaks revealed what it has dubbed “the Spy Files,” a collection of 287 documents that include information about companies that provide different types of surveillance methods including cell phone forensics, spyware, and Wifi interceptions. “Over a year or longer, SSL certificates have been penetrated by various organized crime groups and intelligence agencies. The […]
Free Anti-Tracking Services Catch On With Privacy-Minded Consumers
Here comes yet another software program consumers are having to use to protect their privacy. For those companies that continue to collect our personal data, it is possible they will continue to create more programs to do so; hence, the need for new software to block their new software…You get the picture. It’s like a […]
Under Pressure – Sprint Says It Is Disabling Controversial Carrier IQ Software
On December 1st, I wrote a story titled, “Your Smartphone Is Spying on You.” In that story I discussed a controversial software discovered to be in millions of smartphones. The software is called “Carrier IQ Software” and has the ability to track your phone activity, including text messages. After coming under fire, Sprint recently announced […]
Piers Morgan Accused of Knowledge of Phone Hacking at Daily Mirror
It appears that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World paper is not the only publication being accused of phone hacking. Now, Piers Morgan, former Editor of the Daily Mirror, is in the hot seat for the same offense. Phone hacking was widespread at the Daily Mirror newspaper when Piers Morgan was editor of the paper, […]
