Eva Galperin: Stalkerware, Surveillance, and Real-World Harm

<p>Eva Galperin explains how stalkerware, ordinary phone access, coercion, and weak privacy defaults can let someone close create devastating real-world harm.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>What stalkerware is and why hiding from the user matters</li><li>Why intimate-partner abuse changes the cybersecurity threat model</li><li>Privacy as consent and control, not isolation</li><li>Why end-to-end encryption is not magic if the endpoint is compromised</li><li>Password managers, VPN myths, patching, and backups</li><li>What security teams miss when they only focus on exotic adversaries</li></ul><p>Guest: Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.</p><p><br></p><p>Resources:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: <a href="https://ssd.eff.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://ssd.eff.org/</a></li><li>Coalition Against Stalkerware: <a href="https://stopstalkerware.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://stopstalkerware.org/</a></li></ul>