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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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Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage ’Zero-Click’ Exploit - 21 décembre 2020
Summary & Key Findings
In July and August 2020, government operatives used NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware to hack 36 personal phones belonging to journalists, producers, anchors, and executives at Al Jazeera. The personal phone of a journalist at London-based Al Araby TV was also hacked.
The phones were (...)
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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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Military-backed company in Myanmar seeks control of the country’s internet - 24 juillet 2020
In authoritarian countries, armed forces wield huge power over digital spaces
Myanmar’s military sought influence, power, and money via a Facebook disinformation campaign to benefit a telecoms company backed by the country’s armed forces.
A recently exposed disinformation campaign on Facebook has highlighted the (...)
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Foreign workers in the Gulf still can’t call home - 24 juillet 2020
Our story featured a Filipino administrator in a labor camp near Doha and found that because most free Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) apps such as WhatsApp and Skype, Facetime were blocked by authorities in Gulf countries like Qatar, Oman and United Arab Emirates, migrants were hardly able to communicate with (...)
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Major Security Flaws Found in South Korea Quarantine App - 22 juillet 2020
The defects, which have been fixed, exposed private details of people in quarantine. The country has been hailed as a pioneer in digital public health.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea has been praised for making effective use of digital tools to contain the coronavirus, from emergency phone alerts to aggressive (...)
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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare - 27 juin 2020
At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift (...)
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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles - 27 juin 2020
En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays (...)
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Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway contact tracing apps among most dangerous for privacy - 17 juin 2020
Bahrain, Kuwait and Norway have rolled out some of the most invasive COVID-19 contact tracing apps around the world, putting the privacy and security of hundreds of thousands of people at risk, an Amnesty International investigation reveals.
Amnesty’s Security Lab reviewed contact tracing apps from Europe, Middle (...)
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Coronavirus : Alarm over ’invasive’ Kuwait and Bahrain contact-tracing apps - 17 juin 2020
Kuwait and Bahrain have rolled out some of the most invasive Covid-19 contact-tracing apps in the world, putting the privacy and security of their users at risk, Amnesty International says.
The rights group found the apps were carrying out live or near-live tracking of users’ locations by uploading GPS (...)
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Qatar : Contact tracing app security flaw exposed sensitive personal details of more than one million - 27 mai 2020
Serious security vulnerabilities in Qatar’s mandatory contact tracing app, uncovered by Amnesty International, must act as a wake-up call for governments rolling-out COVID-19 apps to ensure privacy safeguards are central to the technology.
An investigation by Amnesty’s Security Lab discovered the critical weakness (...)
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Au Qatar, "énorme" faille dans l’appli de pistage anti-COVID, selon Amnesty - 27 mai 2020
Les données personnelles de plus de 1 million d’utilisateurs ont été rendues vulnérables, dont le numéro de leur carte d’identité, leur géolocalisation ainsi que leur statut médical (malade, sain, ou autre) par rapport au nouveau coronavirus.
Une faille de sécurité dans l’application qatarie de traçage des personnes (...)
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A flood of coronavirus apps are tracking us. Now it’s time to keep track of them. - 7 mai 2020
There’s a deluge of apps that detect your covid-19 exposure, often with little transparency. Our Covid Tracing Tracker project will document them.
As the covid-19 pandemic rages, technologists everywhere have been rushing to build apps, services, and systems for contact tracing : identifying and notifying all (...)
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Israel’s Not-So-Secret Weapon in Coronavirus Fight : The Spies of Mossad - The New York Times - 13 avril 2020
TEL AVIV, Israel — When Israel’s health minister was found to be infected with the coronavirus early this month, all high-level officials in close contact with him were quarantined, including one who stood out : the director of the Mossad, the storied Israeli spy service.
Mossad officers, primarily associated with (...)
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades - 11 février 2020
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
For more than half a century, governments all over the world trusted a single company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret.
The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build (...)
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Clearview conseille de faire n’importe quoi avec son logiciel de reconnaissance faciale - Cyberguerre - 8 février 2020
Tout va bien : la startup de reconnaissance faciale Clearview incite à un usage abusif de sa technologie, et veut conquérir de nouveaux clients dans des pays condamnés pour violation des droits de l’homme.
Plus on en sait sur Clearview, plus ses pratiques de vente et d’utilisation apparaissent dépourvues de tout cadre (...)
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Instagram-Scraping Clearview AI Wants To Sell Its Facial Recognition Software To Authoritarian Regimes - 7 février 2020
Facebook confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, asking the company to stop using information from Facebook and Instagram.
As legal pressures and US lawmaker scrutiny mounts, Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that claims to have a database of more than 3 (...)
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It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. - 22 décembre 2019
ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.
WASHINGTON — It is billed as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text message with friends and family, even in a country that has restricted popular messaging services like (...)
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La « ville sûre » ou la gouvernance par les algorithmes, par Félix Tréguer - 13 juin 2019
Les outils policiers fondés sur le big data et l’intelligence artificielle se déploient dans de nombreuses villes françaises. À travers des expérimentations pilotées par des groupes privés qui cherchent à se hisser au niveau de la concurrence américaine ou chinoise, la « ville intelligente » révèle son vrai visage : celui (...)
