One of the most troubling uses of surveillance technology in recent years has been the explosion of stingray devices. Stingrays are fake cell phone towers that can be deployed by law enforcement to ...

Stingrays trick iPhones and Android devices alike into sharing sensitive information, particularly your IMSI number, which can be used for identification and tracking. Android has optional protections ...

Why it matters: As Android 16's new security features roll out with the next generation of smartphones, users will, for the first time, have a tool to detect invisible digital surveillance. Whether ...

In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks of nearly two years ago, the NSA, FBI, and even local police have hammered a consistent drumbeat of trust. Time and time again, at every level of government, ...

A device that law enforcement agencies use to secretly track cell phone users was offered this week to anyone on eBay - anyone with $50,000, and perhaps anyone with ulterior motives for using it. The ...

A slew of federal agency heads and the nation’s top intelligence official are being pressed to respond to what one influential senator is calling an “abysmal failure” by the U.S. government to defend ...

I was a senior in high school when I attended my first protest, in November 2003. It was in Miami, at a conference to discuss the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), an agreement ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Stingray barbs contain various enzymes and other proteins that interact with the human body in complex ways. Stingray wounds can be ...

Amid news that immigration arrests are rising sharply under the Trump Administration, the Detroit News reported last week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents recently obtained ...