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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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Israel seeks to give police unrestricted access to COVID contact tracing data - 27 octobre 2020
Proposed legislation would allow information on patients’ movement and contacts, as collected by the Health Ministry and army, and possibly the Shin Bet security service, to be used for criminal investigations
The cabinet wants to give the police unrestricted access to the information it collects from the contact (...)
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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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Israel suspends police phone-tracking for coronavirus quarantine - Israel News - Haaretz.com - 24 avril 2020
Law enforcement now to use surprise home visits, other means, to ensure coronavirus isolation orders are obeyed
The government decided to put a hold on efforts to pass legislation allowing police to track the cellphones of people who are required to be in quarantine due to their possible exposure to the (...)
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In dead of night, Israel approves harsher coronavirus tracking methods than gov’t stated - Israel News - Haaretz.com - 13 avril 2020
Government approves regulations permitting collection of data without court order, circumventing Knesset in the process ■ Data can be stored until regulations, which can be extended, expire
The Israeli government unanimously passed in the early hours of Tuesday new emergency regulations for tracking the cellphones (...)
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A Million People Are Jailed at China’s Gulags. I Managed to Escape. Here’s What Really Goes on Inside - 21 novembre 2019
Rape, torture and human experiments. Sayragul Sauytbay offers firsthand testimony from a Xinjiang ’reeducation’ camp
Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine (...)
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Facebook Sues Israel’s NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Hack - 30 octobre 2019
Facebook is seeking to have NSO barred from accessing or attempting to access WhatsApp and Facebook’s services after hacking spree that targeted journalists, diplomats, activists and others
Facebook Inc. on Tuesday sued Israeli cyber surveillance firm NSO Group, alleging it hacked users of messaging platform (...)
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This Israeli Face-recognition Startup Is Secretly Tracking Palestinians - 6 septembre 2019
Anyvision has cameras deep inside the West Bank, allowing Israel to spot and monitor potential Palestinian assailants
Anyvision Interactive Technologies is one of Israel’s most curious startups. It has shown extraordinary growth, and its technology is being used by the army to monitor West Bank Palestinians at (...)
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What was the Israeli involvement in collecting U.S. communications intel for NSA ? - 4 août 2013
Israeli high-tech firms Verint and Narus have had connections with U.S. companies and Israeli intelligence in the past, and ties between the countries’ intelligence agencies remain strong.
Were Israeli companies Verint and Narus the ones that collected information from the U.S. communications network for the (...)
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Israel’s military censor to monitor Facebook, Twitter, blogs - 6 mai 2012
Chief censor says new system will not infringe on personal information nor scrutinize private Facebook accounts.
Israel’s military launched a new system this week to monitor information on the Internet, the chief military censor said on Tuesday.
Col. Sima Vaknin-Gil said that the new system will monitor visual (...)
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Bashar Assad emails leaked, tips for ABC interview revealed - 8 février 2012
In part one of the Haaretz expose of emails leaked from the account of the Syrian president’s media adviser, Assad is told, ahead of interview with Barbara Walters, that the ’American psyche can be easily manipulated.’
Hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office were leaked on Monday after an (...)
