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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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Election en Ouganda : Facebook ferme les comptes de responsables gouvernementaux - 11 janvier 2021
Facebook a fermé ces derniers jours les comptes de plusieurs responsables gouvernementaux ougandais accusés d’interférences dans le débat public à l’approche de l’élection présidentielle de jeudi, a indiqué lundi le géant américain dans un courriel à l’AFP.
Facebook a fermé ces derniers jours les comptes de plusieurs (...)
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Huawei infiltration in Uganda - 28 septembre 2020
Unwanted Witness, our partner organisation based in Uganda, explore critical questions around Huawei’s surveillance dealings with the Ugandan government raise. While Huawei’s relationship with the government raises concerns for human rights, many of these concerns remain unaddressed.
The Uganda government has a (...)
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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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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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The Global Expansion of AI Surveillance - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace - 30 mars 2020
A growing number of states are deploying advanced AI surveillance tools to monitor, track, and surveil citizens. Carnegie’s new index explores how different countries are going about this.
Executive Summary
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly proliferating around the world. Startling developments (...)
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New report by AlgorithmWatch : Identity-management and citizen scoring in Ghana, Rwanda, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and China - 25 octobre 2019
A review of identity-management practices in five African countries shows that much of the continent is well on its way towards comprehensive biometric registration. It could enable comprehensive citizen scoring or automated surveillance in the near future.
The report Identity-management and citizen scoring in (...)
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Des employés de Huawei auraient aidé la Zambie et l’Ouganda à espionner des opposants politiques - 22 août 2019
Une enquête du Wall Street Journal charge l’entreprise chinoise Huawei : selon le média américain, plusieurs de ses employés auraient aidé l’Ouganda et la Zambie à déployer un logiciel espion sur des smartphones d’opposants politiques, et ce dans le but d’accéder à leur localisation et leurs conversations chiffrées.
Le (...)
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Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents - 15 août 2019
Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Huawei Technologies Co., the world’s largest telecommunications company, dominates African markets, where it has sold (...)
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The Dangerous Junk Science of Vocal Risk Assessment - 25 novembre 2018
Is it possible to tell whether someone is a criminal just from looking at their face or listening to the sound of their voice ? The idea may seem ludicrous, like something out of science fiction "” Big Brother in "1984" detects any unconscious look "that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality" "” and yet, (...)
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China is exporting its digital surveillance methods to African governments - 2 novembre 2018
China has consistently been ranked by digital advocates as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom. The country, however, isn’t just tightening online controls at home but is becoming more brazen in exporting some of those techniques abroad including in Africa, says a new report from the US-based think tank (...)
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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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Ouganda : 127 millions de dollars pour l’installation de la vidéosurveillance - 6 mai 2018
L’Ouganda va bientôt se parer de caméra de sécurités, comme l’avait demandé Yoweri Museveni. Le Parlement du pays a validé un budget de 127 millions de dollars afin d’installer des caméras dans la capitale, dans les grandes villes du pays, ainsi que sur les principaux axes routiers. Le président l’avait souhaité en 2017, à (...)
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How a Grad Student Found Spyware That Could Control Anybody’s iPhone from Anywhere in the World - 28 mars 2017
Last summer, Bill Marczak stumbled across a program that could spy on your iPhone’s contact list and messages"”and even record your calls. Illuminating shadowy firms that sell spyware to corrupt governments across the globe, Marczak’s story reveals the new arena of cyber-warfare.
The night it happened, right after (...)
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You need two to tango : The responsibility of companies to respect privacy and free expression in the digital age - 15 juin 2016
"State capacity to conduct surveillance may depend on the extent to which business enterprises cooperate with or resist such surveillance" notes the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression in his report on the role of the private sector to respect human rights in the digital age. The Special Rapporteur will (...)
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Ugandan government deployed FinFisher spyware to ’crush’ opposition, track elected officials and media in secret operation during post-election protests, documents reveal - 16 octobre 2015
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni directed intelligence and police officials to use a powerful, invasive malware to spy on domestic political opponents "“ including parliamentarians, activists and media houses "“ following the 2011 presidential election, during a period of urban unrest and police violence, according (...)
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With new promise comes new perils : ICTs and the right to privacy in Africa - 30 novembre 2012
One of the first things that strikes you about the chaotic East African metropolises of Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe is the blanket of adverts for mobile phone companies that covers them, from the walls of the immigration hall at Harare airport, to the rickety shacks that line the dusty streets of Kampala. Where (...)
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Une planète antiterroriste - 10 septembre 2011
OWNI a développé avec RFI une application qui recense les législations antiterroristes dans le monde. Justice d’exception, surveillance accrue, alibi pour les États autoritaires. Triste panorama de trois décennies d’antiterrorisme.
L’application ci-dessus permet de naviguer dans les lois antiterroristes votées dans le (...)
