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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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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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The A.I. Industry Is Exploiting Gig Workers Around the World — Sometimes for Just $8 a Day - 13 février 2021
A new paper sheds light on the industry’s troubling relationship with the global gig economy
Modern artificial intelligence relies on algorithms processing millions of examples or images or text. A picture of a bird in an A.I. dataset would be manually tagged “bird” so that the algorithm associated aspects of that (...)
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Facebook and Twitter Face International Scrutiny After Trump Ban - 15 janvier 2021
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.
LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures (...)
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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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Stop au commerce des instruments de torture - 11 décembre 2020
Le monde doit agir de toute urgence pour interdire le commerce mondial d’équipements destinés à infliger des douleurs et des souffrances insupportables, ont déclaré Amnesty International et la Fondation de recherche Omega le 11 décembre 2020, en amont d’une réunion de haut niveau à l’ONU sur le « commerce de la torture ». (...)
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Facebook Has Been a Disaster for the World - 14 octobre 2020
How much longer are we going to allow its platform to foment hatred and undermine democracy ?
For years, Myanmar’s military used Facebook to incite hatred and genocidal violence against the country’s mostly Muslim Rohingya minority group, leading to mass death and displacement. It took until 2018 for Facebook to (...)
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Hate Speech on Facebook Is Pushing Ethiopia Dangerously Close to a Genocide - 14 septembre 2020
Ethnic violence set off by the assassination of a popular singer has been supercharged by hate speech and incitements shared widely on the platform.
Throughout his life, Ethiopian singer Hachalu Hundessa sang about love, unity, and raising the marginalized voices of his Oromo ethnic group.
He had always tried to (...)
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Manipulations numériques en Afrique, par André-Michel Essoungou - 26 août 2020
Début juin, Facebook a fermé 446 pages, 96 groupes et plus de 200 comptes Instagram administrés par la société franco-tunisienne URéputation. Celle-ci aurait cherché à influencer, par la diffusion de fausses informations, des élections en Afrique francophone. Laboratoire mondial des manipulations numériques, le continent (...)
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Ethiopia’s internet shutdown is silencing migrant workers stranded in Lebanon - 13 juillet 2020
Caught between an economic crisis and a news blackout, this vulnerable community is struggling to be heard
On Friday July 3, Ethiopian activists planned to gather outside their national consulate in Beirut in protest against the kafala system — a form of employment sponsorship that operates across the Middle East (...)
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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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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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RSF dévoile la liste 20/2020 des Prédateurs numériques de la liberté de la presse | RSF - 11 mars 2020
A l’occasion de la Journée mondiale de lutte contre la cybercensure, le 12 mars, Reporters sans frontières (RSF) dévoile une liste de 20 Prédateurs numériques de la liberté de la presse en 2020. En traquant les journalistes, ces entreprises, organismes et administrations mettent en péril notre capacité à nous informer. (...)
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Internet en Afrique : Comment les gouvernements le ferment-ils ? - 31 mars 2019
Pas de Facebook, Twitter ou WhatsApp.C’est ce qui devient de plus en plus courant dans certains pays africains, où les gouvernements ont périodiquement fermé l’Internet ou bloqué les plateformes de médias sociaux.
Cela fait un an que le Tchad a bloqué l’accès aux sites de médias sociaux les plus populaires.
Le Soudan en (...)
Litigation and Other Formal Complaints Concerning Targeted Digital Surveillance and the Digital Surveillance Industry - 12 décembre 2018
This is a living resource document providing links and descriptions to litigation and other formal complaints concerning digital surveillance and the digital surveillance industry. If you have additional resources to add to this document, please send to Siena Anstis : siena [at] citizen lab [dot] ca. This document (...)
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Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces - 20 août 2018
Zimbabwe is signing up for China’s surveillance state, but its citizens will pay the price.
Daily life in China is gated by security technology, from the body scanners and X-ray machines at every urban metro station to the demand for ID numbers on social media platforms so that dangerous speech can be traced and (...)
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A Generation Grows Up in China Without Google, Facebook or Twitter - 20 août 2018
Wei Dilong, 18, who lives in the southern Chinese city of Liuzhou, likes basketball, hip-hop music and Hollywood superhero movies. He plans to study chemistry in Canada when he goes to college in 2020.
Mr. Wei is typical of Chinese teenagers in another way, too : He has never heard of Google or Twitter. He once (...)
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Ethiopie : des logiciels espions pour la surveillance des dissidents - 12 décembre 2017
A peine avait-il lu le courriel que l’activiste éthiopien Henok Gabisa comprit que quelque chose n’allait pas. Le message contenait un logiciel espion destiné à infecter son ordinateur et paralyser son activité d’opposant au gouvernement d’Addis Abeba.
La ligne d’en-tête était intitulée "Démocratie en Ethiopie : peut-elle (...)
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How the NSA Built a Secret Surveillance Network for Ethiopia - 14 septembre 2017
"A warm friendship connects the Ethiopian and American people," U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced earlier this year. "We remain committed to working with Ethiopia to foster liberty, democracy, economic growth, protection of human rights, and the rule of law."
Indeed, the website for the U.S. (...)
