let me just call up the director of CIA and ask how frequently they use facial recognition technology to identify drone-strike targets in crowds.
Institutions have a long life. All the data collected today, too, will have an extremely long life. I am sure German Jews thought the census records, tax returns, synagogue membership lists, parish records that identified them as Jewish were harmless as well - until they weren't.
Suggesting that, amongst numerous possible scenarios of abuse, if there is nothing happening now then it has absolutely no potential for harm is an overwhelmingly ignorant position. Not to mention, the public would have absolutely no idea of such abuses even if they were happening.
But to actually answer your question, here is mobile malware [1] found by the lookout team that used 3 different vulnerabilities to complete compromise an iPhone all through a link opened in Safari. This allowed for applications that encrypt messages in transit, but not at rest on the device, to be compromised. Foreign governments used this malware to target investigative journalist and activists.
Institutions have a long life. All the data collected today, too, will have an extremely long life. I am sure German Jews thought the census records, tax returns, synagogue membership lists, parish records that identified them as Jewish were harmless as well - until they weren't.
Suggesting that, amongst numerous possible scenarios of abuse, if there is nothing happening now then it has absolutely no potential for harm is an overwhelmingly ignorant position. Not to mention, the public would have absolutely no idea of such abuses even if they were happening.
But to actually answer your question, here is mobile malware [1] found by the lookout team that used 3 different vulnerabilities to complete compromise an iPhone all through a link opened in Safari. This allowed for applications that encrypt messages in transit, but not at rest on the device, to be compromised. Foreign governments used this malware to target investigative journalist and activists.
[1] https://info.lookout.com/rs/051-ESQ-475/images/lookout-pegas...