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The big wall - 12 mars 2021
An ActionAid investigation into how Italy tried to stop migration from Africa, using EU funds, and how much money it spent
There are satellites, drones, ships, cooperation projects, police posts, repatriation flights, training centers. They are the bricks of an invisible but tangible and often violent wall. (...)
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Sandvine ... the surveillance octopus in the Arab region - 2 janvier 2021
Partnership and business agreements between Arab governments and corporates on the one hand, and foreign companies working in the internet and communication surveillance industry (software/hardware) on the other, is currently witnessing an increase in rate and scale. The aim is to manipulate the flow of (...)
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Internet Shutdowns in Africa| Dissent Does Not Die in Darkness : Network Shutdowns and Collective Action in African Countries | Rydzak - 20 août 2020
Research on the role of communication technology in repression and collective action focuses largely on social movements in the West or the Arab Spring. Much less work has analyzed how “networked protest” responds to government efforts to stifle the information flow and the factors underlying these responses, (...)
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Documents Reveal Canada’s Secret Hacking Tactics - 28 mars 2015
Canada’s electronic surveillance agency has secretly developed an arsenal of cyberweapons capable of stealing data and destroying adversaries’ infrastructure, according to newly revealed classified documents.
Communications Security Establishment, or CSE, has also covertly hacked into computers across the world to (...)
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Impact de la surveillance d’internet sur le continent africain - 12 mars 2014
Suite aux révélations de Snowden sur les activités de surveillance d’internet par la NSA, les internautes du monde entier sont plus sensibilisés à la possibilité et la menace de la surveillance par des agences tierces de leurs activités sur le web. L’utilisation d’internet en Afrique croit de manière exponentielle mais le (...)
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Mass surveillance and classified patents - 4 août 2012
As part of Privacy International’s investigation into the mass surveillance industry we have examined hundreds of legal documents, brochures and, most recently, patents. Patents are a form of intellectual property ; patent-holders publicly disclose their inventions in exchange for the exclusive rights to use and (...)
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Survey : What Was The Top #Privacy Story of 2011 ? - 27 décembre 2011
Privacy was in the news a lot in 2011. After asking for suggestions at the Twitter Privacy Chat, on Google+ and Facebook, and on a couple of mailing lists, we’ve assembled a list of 17 top privacy stories :
Pervasive use of surveillance tools : surveillance cameras, license plate scanners, TSA expands beyond (...)
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Document Trove Exposes Surveillance Methods - 4 décembre 2011
Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The techniques described in the trove of 200-plus marketing documents, spanning 36 companies, include (...)
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Privacy International accuses British government of giving UK companies "carte blanche" to sell dangerous surveillance tech to Iran - 21 novembre 2011
Privacy International’s Director-General Simon Davies has today written to Prime Minister David Cameron and Creativity Software CEO Richard Lee following revelations that Kingston-based Creativity sold a location-tracking system to Iran.
Mr Davies expressed his disappointment that the Coalition has taken no steps (...)
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The booming business of Internet censorship - 29 avril 2011
Technology companies based in the West are producing the tools to censor content in the Arab world.
Throughout most of the Middle East and North Africa, online censorship is the norm.
The level of censorship varies ; in Morocco, only a handful of sites relating to the Western Sahara, Google Earth, and (...)
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Le marché florissant de la censure - 29 avril 2011
Xavier de la Porte, producteur de l’émission Place de la Toile sur France Culture, réalise chaque semaine une lecture d’un article de l’actualité dans le cadre de son émission.
La lecture de la semaine a pour titre "The booming business of Internet censorship" soit "le marché florissant de la censure d’Internet". Il (...)
