Recruitment efforts targeted security officials “to install special listening devices” to bug President Dalia Grybauskaite a week before a NATO summit set to endorse a military build-up to deter Russia. Identified only as Russian FSB security service agent NF, the Russian citizen was charged with espionage, document forgery and illegally crossing the border, the prosecutors’ office said in a statement. …
Exposed: FBI Bugged Public Bus Stop In San Francisco Area
Well, if you’ve ever read Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and were freaked out about the government recording everything you do in his dystopian vision of the United States, this story coming out of the San Francisco-area won’t assuage your concerns about federal surveillance programs. Between 2010-2011, FBI agents planted recording devices in public bus stops and recorded conversations. …
Council install listening device after neighbours complain about the noise of the three children next door
Mum Hannah Roberts says her human rights have been breached by the sound monitoring equipment. Hannah says she was told during a meeting that a listening device was installed in a home directly above her SWNS. A MUM is seeking legal advice after her council installed a listening device to record whether her children were too noisy. Hannah Roberts has …
Oil rig worker says she was secretly recorded, files $1 million lawsuit
Story highlights Jane Doe claims in a lawsuit she found a secret recording device in her room on the oil rig where she worked She’s asking for damages of more than $1 million, claiming her supervisors didn’t take basic investigative steps (CNN) It looked like a normal clothing hook — small and unsuspecting, mounted on the back door of her …
Woman ‘shocked’ to find council dog barking bugging device on her property
A halt has been called on the use of dog bark bugging devices in Christchurch after a couple complained a recorder had been dropped in their yard, without their knowledge. Jenny Bennett has tried it all. She’s had her dog neutered, got a friend to keep it company – yet the barking goes on. Ms Bennett says the council suggested …
GSOC’s Tale of Snoops, Spies and Intrigue Descends into Farce Again
The Garda Ombudsman’s office has been sniffing through journalists’ contacts in a probe that lacks teeth. Scrutiny: Phone records of up to 50 individuals may also have featured in an investigation of alleged leaks around the arrest of Independent TD Clare Daly. The disturbing revelations that the Garda Ombudsman Commission has been snooping on journalists’ phone records confirms the watchdog’s …
Secret bugging device used by NT police in Emma O’Connor hit-and-run case
Photo: Emma O’Connor, who was hit by a car in Alice Springs, pictured with her son Kaiden. A secret listening device planted in a caravan provided the evidence that led to the arrest of an Alice Springs couple over a hit-and-run, a court has heard. Brett Alan Dredge, 52, and his wife Narelle Dredge, 51, were arrested earlier this month …
Jealous IT expert who murdered his wife by stabbing her 51 times after using tracking devices to expose her affair is jailed for a minimum of 27 years
Andrew Munro knifed partner Clare 51 times with an eight-inch bread knife He calmly attacked 47-year-old mother of three after discovering her affair IT expert Munro, 51, has been ordered to spend at least 27 years in jail Judge said his jealousy made his wife’s final weeks ‘almost unbearable’ A jealous computer programmer who stabbed his wife 51 times after …
Artist Ai Weiwei Discovers Hidden ‘Listening Devices’ In Beijing Studio
Story highlights The artist found what he says are bugging devices around his Beijing studio and home Ai has been the target of Chinese government surveillance in the past and was placed under house arrest in 2010. (CNN) Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei says he found ‘listening devices’ hidden around in his Beijing studio. “They are listening devices or ‘bugs’,” …
Ex Accused of Hacking Heiress’ Phone to Spy on New Lover
A tobacco heiress smoked out her estranged husband’s crude attempt to play “I Spy” by secretly bugging her iPhone before their bitter divorce, court papers claim. Anne Resnik — whose late dad, Frank, was CEO of Philip Morris USA — says hubby Crocker Coulson put the spyware on her phone just before he dumped her last year. The Brooklyn Heights …


