Tag: file encryption

Amongst the numerous amazing monitoring, journalism and file encryption stories this year, discoveries of hidden and illegal tracking of reporters and their personal sources by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Metropolitan Police brought in the most attention. 5 years back, reporters Barry McCaffrey and Trevor Birney submitted a grievance to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), acting upon an inkling that their phones had actually been kept an eye on when they exposed cops collusion in the paramilitary murders of 6 innocent Catholics. The IPT discovered they were. The PSNI and other police had actually accessed McCaffrey's phone records a minimum of 4 times in between 2009 and 2018. Entirely, cops collected the information of about 4,000 texts and phone interact...