Tag: family privacy

  • How NCIC / Securus Is Allegedly Spying on People and Harvesting Their Data An Investigative Look at Forced Surveillance, Data Extraction, and Consent Collapse

    By LeRoy Nellis Austin, Texas January 2026 Executive Summary This article documents serious concerns and allegations that NCIC and Securus, a private correctional communications vendor, operates systems that function not merely as communication tools but as surveillance and data-harvesting platforms. These concerns arise from the structure of NCIC’s services, the absence of meaningful consent, and…

  • Request for Independent Security Review — NCIC Jail Communication App (Public-Interest Inquiry)

    security@eff.org,info@eff.org,tips@propublica.org,security@themarkup.org,tips@theintercept.com,disclosures@citizenlab.ca,contact@citizenlab.ca,security@aclu.org,tips@wired.com,security@mozilla.org,bugcrowd@bugcrowd.com,disclosures@hackerone.com,security@torproject.org,press@torproject.org,security@wikimedia.org,info@openprivacy.ca,contact@privacyinternational.org,security@openrights.org,tips@bellingcat.com Good afternoon, I am reaching out to request an independent, good-faith security and privacy review of the NCIC jail communications platform (mobile application and associated backend services) from a public-interest and civil-liberties perspective. The concern is straightforward and narrow: Whether the NCIC application engages in surveillance, data harvesting, tracking, or secondary data use that…