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

Eva Galperin explains how stalkerware, ordinary phone access, coercion, and weak privacy defaults can let someone close create devastating real-world harm.

In this episode, we cover:

• What stalkerware is and why hiding from the user matters
• Why intimate-partner abuse changes the cybersecurity threat model
• Privacy as consent and control, not isolation
• Why end-to-end encryption is not magic if the endpoint is compromised
• Password managers, VPN myths, patching, and backups
• What security teams miss when they only focus on exotic adversaries

Guest: Eva Galperin, Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.

Resources:

• EFF Surveillance Self-Defense: https://ssd.eff.org/
• Coalition Against Stalkerware: https://stopstalkerware.org/