![]() ![]() Companies, like NSO Group, sell surveillance software to governments with terrible human rights records, no questions asked. Because if you are a high-value target, there is no safe way to use digital communication devices. The best thing you can do is avoid being a target. I hear objections that regular people without public profiles or those who don’t deal with sensitive information don’t need to worry about spyware swooping in and compromising their devices. ![]() The last decade or so is the first time in human history that such a thing has even been possible, and we’re only just now starting to wrestle with the implications. Some entities, including the American government, effectively capture and store a huge portion of all the private data worldwide, perhaps even a majority. A number of governments and companies have the goal of building databases with detailed profile information for every person on earth, or at least every internet user - including where you are at any given moment, who your friends are, what kind of messages and photos you are creating and how you think about the world. The average citizen is likely already caught up by bulk collection, although the proliferation of targeted surveillance technologies are increasingly threatening whistle-blowers, journalists and others that find themselves on the wrong side of unaccountable governments and security agencies.īulk collection affects everyone. It’s useful to distinguish between bulk collection and targeted surveillance. What are the biggest threats right now to privacy for normal citizens? ![]() This is a condensed and edited version of our conversation: We talked about whether it’s possible to stay anonymous in 2019, how to protect your privacy like a spy, whether regular people are at risk of becoming targets and how to become a whistle-blower if you’re a witness to something troubling. As you may have noticed, whistle-blowers are very much in the news these days, and Tye is very much in the center of that world. ![]() He is a former State Department employee, a whistle-blower and a co-founder of Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit law firm that represents individuals trying to expose wrongdoing. Last week, at a conference in Portugal, I met John Napier Tye. This article is part of a limited-run newsletter. This article has been updated with responses from the NSO Group and John Tye. ![]()
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