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After Slamming Trump, Lawmakers Silent on Biden Drone Export Policy - 14 mai 2021
The door is open for drone sales to authoritarian countries like the United Arab Emirates.
When the Trump administration announced last July it was loosening decades-old restrictions on military drone exports, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came out swinging. Progressive Democrats (...)
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In Mexico, a controversial new law requires cell phone users to hand over sensitive information to the government - 30 avril 2021
The law adds Mexico to a list of 18 countries globally that require biometric data registration for cell phone users
Digital rights groups are sounding the alarm about a new law in Mexico that would require all cell phone users to register their personal information and biometric data in a massive government (...)
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How a Chinese Surveillance Broker Became Oracle’s “Partner of the Year” - 22 avril 2021
A network of local resellers helps funnel Oracle technology to the police and military in China.
Banners printed for the occasion read, “Build a new type of strategic partnership.” Artfully made cutouts of the two companies’ logos adorned the stage. And the frosting on the massive sheet cake curled into a red “20,” (...)
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Inside Israel’s lucrative — and secretive — cybersurveillance industry - 18 mars 2021
The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.
At age 18, K., like almost all Israelis, began his mandatory army service. “This was my way to give back to society and defend my country,” he says. “I was one of them. I was one of the radical ones.” From violent (...)
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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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How Oracle Sells Repression in China - 19 février 2021
In its bid for TikTok, Oracle was supposed to prevent data from being passed to Chinese police. Instead, it’s been marketing its own software for their surveillance work.
Police in China’s Liaoning province were sitting on mounds of data collected through invasive means : financial records, travel information, (...)
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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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Google, Cisco and VMware join Microsoft to oppose NSO Group in WhatsApp spyware case - 22 décembre 2020
A coalition of companies have filed an amicus brief in support of a legal case brought by WhatsApp against Israeli intelligence firm NSO Group, accusing the company of using an undisclosed vulnerability in the messaging app to hack into at least 1,400 devices, some of which were owned by journalists and human (...)
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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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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda - 19 décembre 2020
Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products (...)
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Watch : Facial recognition at Dubai Metro stations to identify wanted criminals - 11 décembre 2020
Artificial intelligence being used to secure public transport sector in Dubai
Dubai : Dubai Police have established a foolproof system to secure the emirate’s public transport sector, an official told Gulf News.
Brigadier Obaid Al Hathboor, Director of Transport Security Department in Dubai, said that police are (...)
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Un général accusé d’avoir couvert des actes de torture brigue la présidence d’Interpol - 12 novembre 2020
Inspecteur général de la police des Émirats arabes unis, Ahmed Nasser Al-Raisi est, pour le moment, le seul candidat connu à la tête de l’agence mondiale basée à Lyon. Deux britanniques, dont l’un a accepté de témoigner pour Mediacités, l’accusent d’avoir fermé les yeux sur des actes de torture dont ils disent avoir été (...)
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Ahead by a nose : Covid sniffing dogs prevent surveillance overreach - 10 novembre 2020
A UK security company says it’s ditching some surveillance tech in favor of specially-trained dogs who can detect the coronavirus
A British security agency says it is giving up on high-tech solutions to the pandemic in favor of Covid-19 detecting sniffer dogs — because they are a “softer touch.”
Already deployed at (...)
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Trump Administration Is Bypassing Arms Control Pact to Sell Large Armed Drones - 27 juillet 2020
The move has been opposed internally by arms control officials and lawmakers trying to limit the proliferation of such drones, especially in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Friday that it would allow the sale of advanced armed drones to (...)
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Foreign workers in the Gulf still can’t call home - 24 juillet 2020
Our story featured a Filipino administrator in a labor camp near Doha and found that because most free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apps such as WhatsApp and Skype, Facetime were blocked by authorities in Gulf countries like Qatar, Oman and United Arab Emirates, migrants were hardly able to communicate with (...)
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Une experte de l’ONU dénonce le manque de transparence sur l’utilisation des drones armés - 11 juillet 2020
Devant le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies à Genève, une experte indépendante de l’ONU a regretté, jeudi, que la simple existence de drones armés ne justifie pas leur déploiement sans discernement, dénonçant le manque de transparence sur leur utilisation.
« La simple existence de drones armés ne justifie pas (...)
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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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Covid-19 surveillance tech explained : 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you - 2 juin 2020
Desperate to control the spread of the coronavirus and lift restrictions, governments around the world are turning to technology. We list the six most important technologies being used and explore the risks and limitations of each. We still need your help to get the global picture.
Governments across the world (...)
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NSO Employee Abused Phone Hacking Tech to Target a Love Interest - VICE - 30 avril 2020
The previously unreported news is a serious abuse of NSO’s products, which are typically used by governments and authoritarian regimes.
An employee of controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group abused access to the company’s powerful hacking technology to target a love interest, Motherboard has learned.
The (...)
