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In a Wary Arctic, Norway Starts to See Russian Spies Everywhere

TROMSO, Norway — In hindsight, some things just didn’t add up about Jose Giammaria.For one, the visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, in...

Many Military U.F.O. Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash

WASHINGTON — Government officials believe that surveillance operations by foreign powers and weather balloons or other airborne clutter explain most recent incidents of unidentified...

China’s Surveillance State Encounters Public Resistance

Chinese artists have staged performances to highlight the ubiquity of surveillance cameras. Privacy activists have filed lawsuits against the collection of facial recognition data....

How China Is Policing the Future

The more than 1.4 billion people living in China are constantly watched. They are recorded by police cameras that are everywhere, on street corners...

As China Doubles Down on Lockdowns, Some Chinese Seek an Exit

Clara Xie had long wondered whether she might leave China one day. She chafed at the country’s censorship regime, and as a lesbian, she...

Air Force Taps Clearview AI to Research Face-Identifying A.R. Glasses

The U.S. Air Force is looking into keeping its airfields safer with help from the facial recognition start-up Clearview AI.The Air Force Research Laboratory...

The Battle for the World’s Most Powerful Cyberweapon

The Mexico example revealed both the promise and the perils of working with NSO. In 2017, researchers at Citizen Lab, a watchdog group based...

China’s Olympics App for Athletes Has Security Flaws, Study Says

In preparation for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Japan worked to develop a contact tracing app that would track foreign visitors, but concerns quickly mounted...

Cambodia’s Internet May Soon Be Like China’s: State-Controlled

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The day Kea Sokun was arrested in Cambodia, four men in plainclothes showed up at his photography shop near Angkor...

Biden Administration Warns Against Spyware Targeting Dissidents

WASHINGTON — The federal government on Friday warned the public about the risks of commercial surveillance tools that have been used to spy on...

Apple Sues Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Group

An opening for Apple’s lawsuit emerged in March, after NSO’s Pegasus spyware was discovered on the iPhone of a Saudi activist. Citizen Lab discovered...

The Spying That Changed Big Tech

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.I want to rewind to a recent point in...

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