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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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My Bizarre Stint As an Amazon Reviewer for Hire - 16 juillet 2020
In exchange for positive Amazon reviews, the mysterious Facebook accounts who recruited me promised me free stuff. They delivered.
I didn’t intend to become a liar for hire, a purveyor of fake news on that terrible site, Amazon. But I knew I went too far when I woke up shrouded by my untruths. My blanket, pillows, (...)
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Le marché noir des avis fallacieux sur Amazon - 16 juillet 2020
Un journaliste raconte comment il a été abreuvé de produits gratuits en échange de commentaires cinq étoiles postés sur la plateforme du géant de la vente en ligne.
Bienvenue dans le monde d’un crime bien organisé : celui des faux commentaires sur le site marchand Amazon. Voici l’histoire d’Eli Reiter, un journaliste (...)
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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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Opinion | Surveillance Won’t Stop the Coronavirus - The New York Times - 17 avril 2020
Access to adequate health care, including protective equipment and sufficient testing, will do more good than another hackathon.
In the Moria refugee camp in Greece, one tap is shared among 1,300 people. Social distancing is difficult to do. Refugee communities from Kenya to Bangladesh, Lebanon and Syria are (...)
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Big Tech Is Testing You | The New Yorker - 26 février 2020
Large-scale social experiments are now ubiquitous, and conducted without public scrutiny. Has this new era of experimentation remembered the lessons of the old ?
Dr. John Haygarth knew that there was something suspicious about Perkins’s Metallic Tractors. He’d heard all the theories about the newly patented medical (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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HIDE AND SEEK Tracking NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries - 23 septembre 2018
In this post, we develop new Internet scanning techniques to identify 45 countries in which operators of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be conducting operations.
1. Executive Summary
Israel-based "Cyber Warfare" vendor NSO Group produces and sells a mobile phone spyware suite called Pegasus. To monitor a (...)
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La Suisse interdit l’exportation de matériel de surveillance à deux pays - 25 juillet 2015
Se basant sur une nouvelle ordonnance, la Suisse a interdit pour la première fois l’exportation d’équipements de surveillance à deux pays, par peur de les voir utiliser à des fins de répression.
Le Vietnam et le Bangladesh voulaient se procurer une technologie dite "IMSI-catcher" qui permet d’écouter des conversations (...)
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Bangladesh’s brutal security service meets with Swiss surveillance company Neosoft - 5 septembre 2014
Swiss authorities are investigating the potentially illegal export of mobile phone surveillance technology to an infamous elite unit of the Bangladeshi security apparatus accused of wide-scale human rights abuses. The investigation comes after Privacy International and Swiss magazine WOZ provided evidence that (...)
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Une entreprise suisse de cybersurveillance en affaires avec le Bangladesh - 5 septembre 2014
La Wochenzeitung a révélé jeudi que l’entreprise zurichoise Neosoft AG qui vend des dispositifs de surveillance des communications a accueilli des paramilitaires bengladais controversés.
Une dizaine de membres du Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), groupe paramilitaire opérant au Bangladesh, accusé par Human Rights Watch et (...)
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Who is selling surveillance equipment to a notorious Bangladeshi security agency ? - 1er mai 2014
A brutal branch of the Bangladeshi Police with a record of abuse and brutality is looking to purchase mobile phone surveillance technology, according to documents obtained by Privacy International. Further information received suggests the technology was purchased from a Swiss-based surveillance manufacturer (...)
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La surveillance gouvernementale en ligne via FinSpy plus répandue qu’imaginé - 3 mai 2013
Ils récidivent. Les chercheurs qui avaient, mi-mars, dévoilé la présence dans 25 pays de centres de commande des outils d’espionnage en ligne de l’Anglais Gamma International viennent d’identifier 11 nouveaux pays utilisateurs de la solution. Le logiciel en question "“ développé en fait à Munich par l’entité allemande du (...)
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For Their Eyes Only : The Commercialization of Digital Spying - 1er mai 2013
Citizen Lab is pleased to announce the release of "For Their Eyes Only : The Commercialization of Digital Spying."
The report features new findings, as well as consolidating a year of our research on the commercial market for offensive computer network intrusion capabilities developed by Western companies.
Our (...)
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Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software - 16 mars 2013
Last May, two security researchers volunteered to look at a few suspicious e-mails sent to some Bahraini activists. Almost one year later, the two have uncovered evidence that some 25 governments, many with questionable records on human rights, may be using off-the-shelf surveillance software to spy on their own (...)
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La surveillance de masse en ligne : un phénomène de grande ampleur ? - 14 mars 2013
Un groupe de chercheurs a découvert 25 pays qui pourraient avoir recours aux outils d’espionnage en ligne de l’allemand Gamma International GmbH, outils déjà mis en lumière par la chute d’Hosni Mubarak il y a deux ans. Des pays déjà dans la ligne de mire des défenseurs des droits de l’homme, mais également des démocraties (...)
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HMRC must investigate potential breach of UK export laws by Gamma International in face of new evidence - 13 mars 2013
A report released today by Citizen Lab has uncovered further evidence that British company Gamma International has sold their surveillance technology FinFisher to repressive regimes abroad, despite having no export licence to do so. The report builds on investigations conducted last year that demonstrated that (...)
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A New Dawn : Privacy in Asia - 7 décembre 2012
Privacy has truly become an issue of global resonance. A quick glance at policy agendas in countries around the world shows that privacy and surveillance issues are increasingly important. The challenge, however, is improving the ability of governments and policy stakeholders to engage in a policy debate that is (...)
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Bangladesh - 23 octobre 2012
This country report is an evaluation of privacy and surveillance laws, policies and practices in Bangladesh. It was produced under the ’Privacy in the Developing World’ project, funded by the International Development Research Centre in Canada.
We aim to keep our knowledge of the state of privacy across the world (...)
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Guerre numérique entre le Bangladesh et le Pakistan - 26 septembre 2012
Une guerre numérique fait rage sur les terres numériques entre le Bangladesh et le Pakistan. Tout a débuté Voilà quelques semaines, entre les frontières avec l’Inde, le Bangladesh et le Pakistan. Une sombre histoire de rivalité terrienne pour des points d’eau, denrée de plus en plus rare dans ces contrés. Le partage de (...)
