The New Jersey State Police have spent at least $850,000 in recent years on a technology that allows troopers to track cell phone use without phone owners knowing, according to documents provided ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created Rayhunter, a $20 device that helps people detect if police are using ...

The investigation of that homegrown plot to kill police officers in Boston continues, but this much we know &#8212 without extensive cell phone surveillance, the suspects would probably have gone ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mobile phone carriers received more than 1.3 million requests last year from U.S. law enforcement agencies for their customers' phone records and the requests are on the rise, ...

This past week, the White House detailed the scope of a massive Chinese hacking campaign that reaped information from American cell phone networks. But an HBO original documentary, “Surveilled,” says ...

Phone spyware is designed to stay hidden, but it usually leaves fingerprints if you know where to look. By running a few focused checks, I can quickly spot the most common signs of spying and take ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has come to the conclusion that someone likely deployed a mobile phone surveillance system during the Democratic National Convention last summer, according to a new ...

A run-of-the-mill public records request about cell phone surveillance submitted to a local police department in Florida has unearthed blatant violations of open government laws, including an ...

Are prison inmates setting up 'hits' and other crimes by way of contraband cell phones? It's a growing concern, after authorities last month found mass murderer Charles Manson with a cell phone, for ...