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Facebook’s Secret Rules on Word “Zionist” Impede Criticism of Israel - 15 mai 2021
Obtained by The Intercept, the policies alarmed advocates, who said Facebook is silencing political speech.
Facebook’s secret internal rules for moderating the term “Zionist” let the social network suppress criticism of Israel amid an ongoing wave of Israeli abuses and violence, according to people who reviewed the (...)
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Le pied de nez de Signal à Cellebrite, l’entreprise qui exploite les téléphones pour les forces de l’ordre - 25 avril 2021
L’un des principaux développeurs de Signal, Moxie Marlinspike, a découvert une vulnérabilité dans des outils utilisés par l’entreprise israélienne.
Le jeu du chat et de la souris entre les forces de l’ordre et les entreprises fournissant des services chiffrant les données de leurs utilisateurs se poursuit. La dernière (...)
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Financing Border Wars - 10 avril 2021
The border industry, its financiers and human rights
This report seeks to explore and highlight the extent of today’s global border security industry, by focusing on the most important geographical markets—Australia, Europe, USA—listing the human rights violations and risks involved in each sector of the industry, (...)
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Analysis : Digital vaccine certificates – global patchwork, little transparency - 3 avril 2021
A global debate has sparked around the idea of implementing a digital infrastructure to prove a person’s COVID-19 vaccination status across borders. But as the initiatives multiply across Europe and all over the globe, an international consensus is hard to reach — and issues still abound.
With COVID-19 vaccination (...)
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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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Facial recognition tech stories and rights harms from around the world - 2 mars 2021
From Delhi to Detroit, Budapest to Bogota, Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) is being rapidly deployed in public and private spaces across the world.
As of 2019, 64 out of 176 countries were using facial recognition surveillance systems. In the US alone, more than 50 percent of all American adults were in a (...)
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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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Comment l’économie de la surveillance a profité du covid-19 - 17 février 2021
Pour le journaliste Olivier Tesquet qui publie État d’urgence technologique, la pandémie banalise la surveillance et permet aux entreprises du secteur de blanchir leur réputation en pivotant des marchés sécuritaires vers des marchés sanitaires.
En janvier 2020, Olivier Tesquet, journaliste chez Télérama, publiait À la (...)
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Drones With Facial Recognition Are Primed To Fly—But The World Isn’t Ready Yet - 16 février 2021
Some of the first drones with advanced facial recognition capabilities are being developed by Israeli surveillance companies, as American police consider whether they will soon be adding the controversial technology to their unmanned flying machines.
As a sign of the imminent arrival of biometric identification (...)
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Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz - 18 janvier 2021
JERUSALEM (AP) — After sprinting ahead in the race to inoculate its population against the coronavirus, Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the international drug giant in exchange for the continued flow of its hard-to-get vaccine.
Proponents say the deal could (...)
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Artificial intelligence : Frontex improves its maritime surveillance – Matthias Monroy - 16 janvier 2021
Frontex wants to use a new platform to automatically detect and assess „risks“ on the seas of the European Union. Suspected irregular activities are to be displayed in a constantly updated „threat map“ with the help of self-learning software.
The EU border agency has renewed a contract with Israeli company Windward (...)
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Sylvain Louvet et Ludovic Gaillard, prix Albert-Londres 2020 : “Avec la loi Sécurité globale, on franchit encore un cap dans la surveillance” - 12 janvier 2021
Les auteurs du documentaire “Tous surveillés, 7 milliards de suspects” ont été récompensés du prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel ce 5 décembre. Une enquête remarquable sur les techniques de surveillance de masse et leurs dérives, à voir d’urgence sur Télérama.fr.
Cette année encore le prix Albert-Londres de l’audiovisuel (...)
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Human rights organizations respond to NSO : victims’ voices will not be silenced - 8 janvier 2021
Today, January 7, Access Now, along with seven other human rights organizations, filed a reply to NSO Group’s opposition to the coalition’s amicus brief in the case of WhatsApp v. NSO in the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court. In their opposition, NSO argued that the court should reject the brief on the grounds that it (...)
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Facebook Joined by Human Rights Groups to Fight Spyware Maker - 2 janvier 2021
A coalition of human rights and press freedom groups have filed a brief supporting Facebook Inc.’s lawsuit against the Israeli surveillance technology company NSO Group, arguing that the “very core of the principles that America represents” are at stake in the case.
Facebook last year initiated the lawsuit against (...)
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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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Covid-19 Ushered in a New Era of Government Surveillance - 30 décembre 2020
Government-mandated drone surveillance and location tracking apps could be here to stay
In early December, after finding 16 people had illegally crossed the border from Myanmar to Thailand and evaded the mandatory quarantine period, the Thai government said it would start patrolling the border with new (...)
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Google told its scientists to ’strike a positive tone’ in AI research - documents - 30 décembre 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with (...)
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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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Spying on Mexican journalists : investigating the lucrative market of cyber-surveillance - 8 décembre 2020
Despite repeated scandals, the global cyber-surveillance industry continues to supply Mexico with more and more invasive technologies, assisted by well-connected intermediaries. Multiple journalists have been targeted by these tools, but Mexican authorities remain unconcerned. Veracruz, the state with the highest (...)
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Espionnage des journalistes mexicains : enquête sur le marché très rentable de la cyber surveillance - 8 décembre 2020
Malgré des scandales à répétition, l’industrie mondiale de la cyber surveillance, aidée par quelques intermédiaires bien connectés, continue de fournir au Mexique des technologies toujours plus invasives. Plusieurs journalistes ont été pris pour cible par ces outils sans qu’aucun responsable mexicain ne soit jamais (...)
