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Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts - 14 septembre 2020
The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal borders.
It’s kicked off test runs between the backend servers of the official apps from the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and (...)
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The original Big Tech is working closer than ever with governments to combat coronavirus – with no scrutiny - 10 août 2020
Telecom companies are at the core of the world’s communication universe. Since the coronavirus pandemic, they’ve been passing even more sensitive data to governments. It’s time they were held as accountable as Google and Facebook.
The texts can arrive at any time. Recipients are told they’ve been exposed to the (...)
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Google Coronavirus Apps Give it Way to Access Location Data - 30 juillet 2020
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free software to help alert people of their possible exposure (...)
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Facial recognition developed by Clearview AI likely illegal in Europe - 20 juin 2020
The European Data Protection Board warned on Wednesday that Clearview AI’s technology is likely to be illegal in Europe.
The warning comes after Amazon and IBM scaled back their facial recognition products.
Facial recognition technology developed by U.S. firm Clearview AI could be illegal in Europe, according to (...)
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Een snelle uitweg uit de lockdown ? Niet met een app - 1er juin 2020
Het ene land na het andere land beloofde dit voorjaar een app om coronabesmettingen op te sporen. Maar in de praktijk schiet de technologie nog tekort. Daarom, terug van weggeweest : het vertrouwde, handmatige contactonderzoek.
Toen Sam Aldridge voor het eerst hoorde over een app die nagaat met wie je allemaal in (...)
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We were told technology would end Covid-19 lockdowns, but the truth is there’s no app for that - 1er juin 2020
In many countries, contact-tracing apps were presented as a precondition to end lockdowns. But our Track(ed) Together investigation reveals that many countries are struggling with the technology, turning instead to less high-tech solutions.
Sam Aldridge was sceptical when she first heard about Australia’s (...)
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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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At least 10 police forces use face recognition in the EU, AlgorithmWatch reveals - 15 décembre 2019
The majority of the police forces that answered questions by AlgorithmWatch said they use or plan to introduce face recognition. Use cases vary greatly across countries, but almost all have in common their lack of transparency.
Police departments have long attempted to acquire, structure and store data on the (...)
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We Tested Europe’s New Lie Detector for Travelers "” and Immediately Triggered a False Positive - 27 juillet 2019
They call it the Silent Talker. It is a virtual policeman designed to strengthen Europe’s borders, subjecting travelers to a lie detector test before they are allowed to pass through customs.
Prior to your arrival at the airport, using your own computer, you log on to a website, upload an image of your passport, (...)
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Facebook désactive des centaines de comptes « inauthentiques » actifs en Europe de l’Est et gérés de la Russie - 21 janvier 2019
Le réseau social a dévoilé deux réseaux de faux comptes actifs depuis plusieurs années et destinés à promouvoir les intérêts de la Russie dans une dizaine de pays.
Les équipes de Facebook ont annoncé, jeudi 17 janvier, avoir désactivé des centaines de comptes Facebook et Instagram qui avaient été créés en Russie mais qui (...)
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HIDE AND SEEK Tracking NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware to Operations in 45 Countries - 23 septembre 2018
In this post, we develop new Internet scanning techniques to identify 45 countries in which operators of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware may be conducting operations.
1. Executive Summary
Israel-based "Cyber Warfare" vendor NSO Group produces and sells a mobile phone spyware suite called Pegasus. To monitor a (...)
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La surveillance gouvernementale en ligne via FinSpy plus répandue qu’imaginé - 3 mai 2013
Ils récidivent. Les chercheurs qui avaient, mi-mars, dévoilé la présence dans 25 pays de centres de commande des outils d’espionnage en ligne de l’Anglais Gamma International viennent d’identifier 11 nouveaux pays utilisateurs de la solution. Le logiciel en question "“ développé en fait à Munich par l’entité allemande du (...)
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For Their Eyes Only : The Commercialization of Digital Spying - 1er mai 2013
Citizen Lab is pleased to announce the release of "For Their Eyes Only : The Commercialization of Digital Spying."
The report features new findings, as well as consolidating a year of our research on the commercial market for offensive computer network intrusion capabilities developed by Western companies.
Our (...)
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Mozilla en colère contre l’éditeur d’un spyware vendu aux autorités - 1er mai 2013
Mozilla a mis en demeure la société britannique Gamma International, qui vend à des régimes autoritaires un spyware dissimulé sous les traits de Firefox.
Mardi, l’organisation CitizenLab a publié son nouveau rapport (.pdf) sur le déploiement international des logiciels d’espionnage FinFisher et FinSpy vendus par la (...)
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Researchers Find 25 Countries Using Surveillance Software - 16 mars 2013
Last May, two security researchers volunteered to look at a few suspicious e-mails sent to some Bahraini activists. Almost one year later, the two have uncovered evidence that some 25 governments, many with questionable records on human rights, may be using off-the-shelf surveillance software to spy on their own (...)
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HMRC must investigate potential breach of UK export laws by Gamma International in face of new evidence - 13 mars 2013
A report released today by Citizen Lab has uncovered further evidence that British company Gamma International has sold their surveillance technology FinFisher to repressive regimes abroad, despite having no export licence to do so. The report builds on investigations conducted last year that demonstrated that (...)
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MiniDuke : une campagne mondiale de cyberespionnage utilisant Twitter - 28 février 2013
Des chercheurs en sécurité ont identifié une campagne de cyberespionnage mondiale, qui utilise des backdoors capables de se connecter à des serveurs via Twitter.
C’est Kaspersky Lab et le Crysys (Cryptography and System Security) de l’Université d’économie et de technologie de Budapest qui ont découvert ce qui apparaît (...)
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Elusive FinSpy Spyware Pops Up in 10 Countries - 14 août 2012
It is one of the more elusive commercial cyberespionage tools available. It is marketed as a way for governments to spy on criminals. And for over a year, virus hunters unsuccessfully tried to track it down. Now it is popping up across the globe, from Qatar to an Amazon server in the United States.
FinFisher is a (...)
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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 (...)
