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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 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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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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Ouzbékistan. La surveillance de masse s’étend au-delà des frontières - 31 mars 2017
Le gouvernement ouzbek exerce une surveillance illégale sur ses citoyens et instaure un climat de peur et d’incertitude pour les Ouzbeks en Europe, écrit Amnesty International dans un nouveau rapport.
Le rapport intitulé« We Will Find You, Anywhere » examine les répercussions de la surveillance illégale exercée par le (...)
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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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New database aims to track the global surveillance industry - 2 août 2016
Privacy International releases searchable database on more than 520 surveillance companies and the powerful tools they sell to governments
Privacy International, a London-based watchdog, has launched a new searchable database on hundreds of surveillance companies across the world, as part of an effort to track a (...)
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Eight things we know so far from the Hacking Team hack - 12 juillet 2015
Here are eight things we have learned from this week’s hack of some 400GB of internal company material and correspondence from Italian surveillance company Hacking Team. If you don’t know who Hacking Team are, have a look at our briefing.
The Citizen Lab was right
The Citizen Lab, who in 2014 identified some 21 (...)
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Hacking Team hacked : firm sold spying tools to repressive regimes, documents claim - 6 juillet 2015
The cybersecurity firm Hacking Team appears to have itself been the victim of a hack, with documents that purport to show it sold software to repressive regimes being posted to the company’s own Twitter feed.
The Italy-based company offers security services to law enforcement and national security organisations. (...)
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Privacy International releases "Private Interests : Monitoring Central Asia" - 21 novembre 2014
Privacy international is proud to release "Private Interests : Monitoring Central Asia," a 96-page report detailing its findings from an extensive investigation into electronic surveillance technologies in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
The report brings together the findings (...)
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Un programme pour savoir si votre ordinateur est espionné - 20 novembre 2014
Imaginez que vous n’êtes jamais seul. Que quelqu’un vous regarde par-dessus votre épaule, enregistre tous les mouvements sur votre ordinateur ; lit et écoute toutes vos conversations sur skype, utilise le microphone et la caméra de votre téléphone portable. Tout cela à votre insu. C’est ce qui arrive à des milliers de (...)
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Following the money : How States are funding surveillance technologies - 26 mars 2014
Surveillance companies selling mass and intrusive spy technologies to human rights-abusing governments often are benefitting from the financial and institutional support from their home government, revealing a more closely-linked relationship between the sector and the State than previously believed.
Recent (...)
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Exploiting privacy : Surveillance companies pushing zero-day exploits - 10 mars 2014
Private surveillance companies selling some of the most intrusive surveillance systems available today are in the business of purchasing security vulnerabilities of widely-used software, and bundling it together with their own intrusion products to provide their customers unprecedented access to a target’s computer (...)
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Did Hacking Team receive Italian public funding ? - 3 mars 2014
Only a few days after it was reported that intrusive surveillance technology developed and sold by Italian surveillance company Hacking Team was found in some of the most repressive countries in the world, Privacy International has uncovered evidence which suggests the company has received over €1 million in public (...)
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How Your Phone Can Spy on You - 2 septembre 2012
A glimpse at the future of mobile security came to light recently in London, at the Vodafone Annual General Meeting (AGM) "“ though most people do not yet understood the significance of what transpired. This meeting may have lacked the overt drama of the Olympics, but it revealed nonetheless the attitude towards (...)
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Entre surveillance et filtrage, la brèche ténue des net-citoyens - 13 mars 2012
Ce rapport, qui dresse la nouvelle liste 2012 des pays "Ennemis d’Internet" et "sous surveillance" , est une actualisation du rapport publié le 12 mars 2011.
Le précédent rapport, publié en mars 2011, soulignait la consécration des réseaux sociaux et du rôle du Web comme outil de mobilisation et de transmission (...)
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’Enemies of the internet’ in Reporters Without Borders study - 13 mars 2012
Bahrain and Belarus have been added to Reporters Without Borders’ annual list of "enemies of the internet".
They join 10 other nations on the campaign group’s register of states that restrict net access, filter content and imprison bloggers.
India and Kazakhstan have also joined RWB’s list of "countries under (...)
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2011, année noire pour la liberté d’expression en ligne - 12 mars 2012
L’année 2011 "restera comme une année d’une violence sans précédent" contre les citoyens actifs sur la Toile, avec la mort de cinq d’entre eux et plus de 200 arrestations, soit une hausse de 30 % par rapport à 2010, estime Reporters sans frontières (RSF), dans son rapport 2012 (pdf) sur les ennemis d’Internet mis en ligne (...)
