Once you create a surveillance system, you cannot dictate who might utilize it:
A cybercriminal affiliated with the Sinaloa drug cartel managed to acquire an FBI official’s telephone records and utilized Mexico City’s monitoring cameras to assist in tracking and eliminating the agency’s informants in 2018, based on a recent report from the US justice department.
This event was revealed in an audit by the justice department’s inspector general regarding the FBI’s attempts to alleviate the consequences of “pervasive technical surveillance,” a phrase that refers to the worldwide spread of cameras and the flourishing market in extensive collections of communication, travel, and location information.
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The report indicated that the hacker pinpointed an FBI assistant legal attaché at the US embassy in Mexico City and was able to leverage the attaché’s phone number “to secure calls made and received, along with geolocation information.” Additionally, the report stated that the hacker “employed Mexico City’s camera network to track the [FBI official] around the city and recognize individuals the [official] interacted with.”