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Analysis : Digital vaccine certificates – global patchwork, little transparency - 3 avril 2021
A global debate has sparked around the idea of implementing a digital infrastructure to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status across borders. But as the initiatives multiply across Europe and all over the globe, an international consensus is hard to reach — and issues still abound.
With COVID-19 vaccination (...)
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Israel’s cyber-spy industry helps world dictators hunt dissidents and gays - 15 mars 2021
Haaretz investigation spanning 100 sources in 15 countries reveals Israel has become a leading exporter of tools for spying on civilians. Dictators around the world – even in countries with no formal ties to Israel – use them eavesdrop on human rights activists, monitor emails, hack into apps and record (...)
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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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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ’Zero-Click’ Exploit - 21 décembre 2020
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In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.
The phones were (...)
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Les iPhone de journalistes d’Al-Jazira ciblés par des logiciels d’espionnage ultrasophistiqués - 21 décembre 2020
Des dizaines d’iPhone de journalistes de la chaîne d’informations qatarie ont été surveillés de manière indétectable grâce à des outils de l’entreprise israélienne NSO Group, révèle un rapport du Citizen Lab de Toronto, expert dans l’étude des logiciels espions.
Les iPhone de dizaines d’employés de la chaîne d’information (...)
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With Israel’s encouragement, NSO sold spyware to UAE and other Gulf states - 26 août 2020
The Israeli spyware firm has signed contracts with Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia. Despite its claims, NSO exercises little control over use of its software, which dictatorships can use to monitor dissidents
The Israeli firm NSO Group Technologies, whose software is used to hack into cellphones, has in the past (...)
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Sumit Gupta : For whom the BellTrox - 8 août 2020
BENGALURU : Sumit Gupta, founder of BellTrox InfoTech Services, would exhort young recruits to hack into servers of targeted entities in return for more money, former employees of the Delhi-based company told ET. BellTrox was cited as a spy-for-hire firm by an internet watchdog group investigating an international (...)
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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare - 27 juin 2020
At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift (...)
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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles - 27 juin 2020
En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays (...)
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L’application de lutte contre le Covid-19 en Norvège, jugée trop intrusive, est suspendue - 20 juin 2020
Evoquant les risques pour la vie privée de ses utilisateurs, plusieurs organismes ont demandé à l’institut de la santé publique, chargé du projet, de revoir sa copie.
La Norvège n’a plus besoin de son application pour lutter contre le coronavirus – et face aux questions liées à la protection de la vie privée, toutes les (...)
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Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway contact tracing apps among most dangerous for privacy - 17 juin 2020
Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway have rolled out some of the most invasive COVID-19 contact tracing apps around the world, putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, an Amnesty International investigation reveals.
Amnesty’s Security Lab reviewed contact tracing apps from Europe, Middle (...)
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Coronavirus : Alarm over ’invasive’ Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps - 17 juin 2020
Kuwait and Bahrain have rolled out some of the most invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps in the world, putting the privacy and security of their users at risk, Amnesty International says.
The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by uploading GPS (...)
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A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. - 7 mai 2020
There’s a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.
As the covid-19 pandemic rages, technologists everywhere have been rushing to build apps, services, and systems for contact tracing : identifying and notifying all (...)
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COVID-19 Digital Rights Tracker - 3 mai 2020
This live tracker documents new measures introduced in response to COVID-19 that pose a risk to digital rights around the world.
In response to the outbreak of COVID-19 :
Contact Tracing Apps are being used in 29 countries
Alternative digital tracking measures are active in 30 countries
Physical surveillance (...)
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WhatsApp dépose une plainte contre l’entreprise israélienne NSO Group, accusée d’espionnage - 31 octobre 2019
NSO Groupe aurait directement contribué à une série d’appels « infectés », qui ont ciblé des militants des droits de l’homme et des journalistes en exploitant une faille de l’application, dénonce le dirigeant de WhatsApp.
WhatsApp, l’une des applications de messagerie les plus populaires au monde, propriété de Facebook (...)
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Why WhatsApp is pushing back on NSO Group hacking - 30 octobre 2019
In May, WhatsApp announced that we had detected and blocked a new kind of cyberattack involving a vulnerability in our video-calling feature. A user would receive what appeared to be a video call, but this was not a normal call. After the phone rang, the attacker secretly transmitted malicious code in an effort to (...)
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WhatsApp poursuit une société d’espionnage israélienne - 30 octobre 2019
WhatsApp a déposé plainte contre NSO Group, une société israélienne à la réputation sulfureuse, spécialisée dans les logiciels d’espionnage et accusée d’aider des gouvernements, du Moyen-Orient au Mexique, à épier des militants et des journalistes.
L’application de messagerie cryptée détenue par Facebook avait admis en mai (...)
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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google - 14 juillet 2019
It is the size of a small suitcase and can be placed discreetly in the back of a car. When the device is powered up, it begins secretly monitoring hundreds of cellphones in the vicinity, recording people’s private conversations and vacuuming up their text messages.
The device is one of several spy tools (...)
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Surveillance Company Cellebrite Finds a New Exploit : Spying on Asylum Seekers - 13 juin 2019
Cellebrite, a surveillance firm marketing itself as the "global leader in digital intelligence" , is marketing its digital extraction devices at a new target : authorities interrogating people seeking asylum.
Israel-based Cellebrite, a subsidiary of Japan’s Sun Corporation, markets forensic tools which empower (...)
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« Il y a une campagne mondiale de diffamation et de criminalisation visant les défenseurs des droits humains » - 18 février 2019
Les Nations unies ont fêté les 70 ans de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme. Considérés comme des « défenseurs des droits humains », des femmes et des hommes les font vivre au quotidien : des journalistes, des lanceurs d’alerte, des blogueurs, des syndicalistes, des membres d’ONG, des magistrats, des (...)
