Becoming Invisible, Part 5: Your Phone Is A Surveillance Machine

Apps are spyware and predators abound

This started as a post on how our phones are spying on us and what we can do about it. But it turns out that the first part — how they’re spying on us — is so big and complex that it needs its own post. So the “what we can do” part will come next week.

A dictator’s dream machine

If an evil genius wannabe dictator set out to design the perfect tool for …