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Vaccinés, vos papiers ! - 2 mars 2021
Lentement mais sûrement, l’idée d’un passeport vaccinal en France fait son chemin. Certains pays comme Israël avancent franchement sur ce point et l’ont déjà validé concernant les transports aériens vers des pays le mettant également en place (Chypre et la Grèce), appuyés en cela par le taux de leur population déjà vaccinée (...)
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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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Crowd monitoring facial recognition tech awarded Commission seal of excellence - 6 juillet 2020
The European Commission has given its ‘seal of excellence’ to a technology that provides ‘advanced video analytics, including real-time face recognition and crowd behaviour analysis,’ to be used in the bloc’s fight against another potential outbreak of the coronavirus.
The AWARE technology, developed by Spanish-based (...)
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Face matching and digital avatars coming to the EU’s borders - 30 mai 2020
Across Europe, leaders have been desperately seeking new ways to secure borders. Concerns over migration have contributed to the evolution of new forms of authoritarian technology
On the outskirts of Vienna, staff at the Austrian Institute of Technology are working on a project that could radically change border (...)
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Special Report : Cyber-intel firms pitch governments on spy tools to trace coronavirus - 8 mai 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the software into a suspect’s phone, police can break in and determine where the person has gone and whom he or she has (...)
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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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New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny - 1er novembre 2019
In May this year, we published an article detailing a WhatsApp breach where the secure messaging app was found to be vulnerable to a specific type of attack by malicious actors. Today, on the back of a lengthy investigation by WhatsApp and our friends at Citizen Lab, we are finally learning more about who the (...)
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Is NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus spyware being traded through the EU ? - 15 septembre 2019
When sophisticated surveillance systems are sold and used effectively without constraint, it puts civil society, free expression, and our democracies in the crosshairs. The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains a grim reminder of the vulnerability of those speaking out for human rights. In the (...)
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Hacking a Prince, an Emir and a Journalist to Impress a Client - 21 septembre 2018
The rulers of the United Arab Emirates had been using Israeli spyware for more than a year, secretly turning the smartphones of dissidents at home or rivals abroad into surveillance devices.
So when top Emirati officials were offered a pricey update of the spying technology, they wanted to make sure it worked, (...)
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Une société israélienne accusée d’avoir aidé les EAU à espionner Hariri et le Qatar - 21 septembre 2018
Le gouvernement des Emirats arabes unis a utilisé une technologie de piratage téléphonique israélienne afin d’espionner ses rivaux politiques et régionaux ainsi que des membres des médias. La société israélienne aurait elle-même participé aux cyber-attaques, a rapporté vendredi le New York Times.
NSO Group, basé à Herzliya, (...)
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Union européenne. Des États font pression pour obtenir un assouplissement des règles sur l’exportation d’équipements de surveillance vers des pays portant atteinte aux droits humains - 12 juin 2018
Neuf États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) tentent de bloquer les mesures visant à limiter les exportations d’équipements de surveillance vers les régimes répressifs, cette initiative rétrograde représentant une menace pour les droits humains à travers le monde, ont déclaré le 11 juin Access Now, Amnesty International, (...)
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La Lettonie suspend à son tour la ratification d’ACTA - 11 février 2012
La Lettonie fait de la résistance. Tout comme quatre autres pays d’Europe de l’Est, la petite nation balte a choisi de suspendre le processus de ratification de l’ACTA afin de procéder à son évaluation juridique.
C’est aujourd’hui, samedi 11 février, que les opposants à l’accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACTA) se (...)
