The Record reports: Powerful zero-click spyware is infected devices worldwide through targeted ads, new research shows — an alarming development in the spread of surveillance technology.
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original reporting (linked below)
The Record reports: Powerful zero-click spyware is infected devices worldwide through targeted ads, new research shows — an alarming development in the spread of surveillance technology.
Read the original report via the source linked at the foot of this brief.
This is the pattern The Signal tracks: convenience features that quietly add always-on capture, cloud retention, or data-sharing you never meaningfully consented to. The data you can't see is the data that leaks, gets sold, or gets handed over later.
Powerful zero-click spyware is infected devices worldwide through targeted ads, new research shows — an alarming development in the spread of surveillance technology.
Every always-on device and cloud pipeline is one more place your life is recorded, retained, and — eventually — leaked, sold, or subpoenaed.
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People who run infrastructure live by one rule: never connect what you can't afford to lose. The same logic applies to your home — the safest device is the one that was never listening out to a server in the first place.
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