13 articles. Corporate surveillance programs and privacy violations. Browser fingerprinting, covert data collection, and user tracking across MENA, EU, and US.
FBI's DCS-3000 pen register system compromised via ISP vendor supply chain. Surveillance target phone numbers and PII exposed.
LinkedIn deployed hidden JavaScript scanning visitors for 6,236 browser extensions - including 200+ competitors - while harvesting device telemetry.
Amnesty International revealed Predator spyware deployed against Egyptian activists via zero-click exploits. US sanctions imposed on Intellexa consortium.
CNIL fined SHEIN EUR 150M after 30+ tracking cookies were deployed on 12 million French visitors before obtaining consent, violating ePrivacy and GDPR rules.
CNIL fined Google EUR 325M for deploying dark patterns that made refusing cookies harder than accepting them, affecting consent across millions of French users.
Clearview AI scraped 50 billion+ facial images from social media without consent to build a biometric database. Five European authorities imposed fines exceeding EUR 100M. None collected.
Citizen Lab documented Bahrain's use of NSO Group's Pegasus spyware against at least nine activists via zero-click iMessage exploits requiring no user.
Zero-click iMessage exploits deployed by Saudi- and UAE-linked operators compromised 36 Al Jazeera journalists' iPhones. Citizen Lab identified the KISMET.
Amnesty rated BeAware among the world's most dangerous contact-tracing apps, conducting live GPS tracking linked to national IDs and broadcasting.
Amnesty discovered a critical API flaw in Qatar's mandatory Ehteraz contact-tracing app that exposed health data of 1M+ users via predictable QID enumeration.
EFF and Lookout exposed a Lebanese intelligence espionage campaign run from a GDGS building in Beirut, targeting thousands of victims across 21+ countries.
Citizen Lab discovered Egyptian ISPs using Sandvine PacketLogic deep packet inspection to hijack subscriber traffic for ad injection and cryptocurrency.
Citizen Lab and Access Now documented systematic Pegasus deployment against 35+ journalists, lawyers, and activists in Jordan over four years.