Welcome to this week’s Six Secrets where danger lurks - not just in far-flung countries but in your car, home, and office where tech breaches can threaten your privacy and safety. This week SPYSCAPE questions where you are most vulnerable and what you can do about it.
License to spy?
You’re being tracked 24/7. It’s not just the CCTVs, drones, and license plate cameras creating a Big Brother surveillance state unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Even your fast food drive-thru is recording your burger run, snapping your license plate, and loading your previous orders into their algorithm. Here’s why you should be relieved, alert, and alarmed.
It’s been almost a decade since Edward Snowden revealed XKEYSCORE, the National Security Agency program that spies used to read your emails, laugh at your social media messages, and pinpoint your exact location. That’s all been cleaned up now though, right? Nope. You won’t believe the spies have on you now.
We believe there’s a superhero in each of us - so we’re launching our annual True Superheroes awards to celebrate people who’ve overcome adversity, made amazing contributions to society, and inspired others to do the same. We’ll nominate people in art, design, music, tech, science and many other fields. This week we share a few of our many nominees from the world of comic creators.
Do you have what it takes to speak the truth to power? These whistleblowers faced down tech giants, exposed spy agencies, and called out government cover-ups. They revealed the deep state and data privacy flaws. But they also paid the ultimate price from unemployment to prison and a mention on terrorism watch lists.
Individuals or companies aren’t the only ones concerned about privacy and security. A real-world hack on Taiwan’s semiconductor industry almost brought down the island’s entire economy in 2020. Imagine a nation without power grids, hospitals, cars, or computers. Then consider this - your country could be next.
Your digital footprint reveals your intimate secrets - private communications, your location, purchases, even your medical records. When you share too much information, you lose more than privacy. Your safety is at risk. Here’s SPYSCAPE’s guide to help you take back control of your digital data.
If you access the internet on your phone then it’s likely apps are secretly spying on you. In fact, you’re probably monitored by half a dozen apps every hour of the day - and, if you use a sleep tracker app, it doesn’t stop even if you call it a night. Here are three ways your favorite apps are spying on you, and how you can finally switch off.
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