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Israel seeks to give police unrestricted access to COVID contact tracing data - 27 octobre 2020
Proposed legislation would allow information on patients’ movement and contacts, as collected by the Health Ministry and army, and possibly the Shin Bet security service, to be used for criminal investigations
The cabinet wants to give the police unrestricted access to the information it collects from the contact (...)
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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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Israel’s coronavirus surveillance is an example for others - of what not to do - 25 juillet 2020
The Israeli intelligence services have been tracking Covid-19 patients for contact tracing. As the High Court condemned the measure, what can the rest of the world learn from this controversial experiment ?
UPDATE 21/07/2020 : On Monday July 20th, the Israeli parliament approved a new bill allowing the Ministry (...)
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Creating the coronopticon - Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic - 8 mai 2020
And also, in the process, their citizens
HAVING BEEN quarantined at his parents’ house in the Hebei province in northern China for a month, Elvis Liu arrived back home in Hong Kong on February 23rd. Border officials told him to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing (...)
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Monitoring being pitched to fight Covid-19 was tested on refugees — The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - 1er mai 2020
The pandemic has given a boost to controversial data-driven initiatives to track population movements
In Italy, social media monitoring companies have been scouring Instagram to see who’s breaking the nationwide lockdown. In Israel, the government has made plans to “sift through geolocation data” collected by the (...)
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Déconfinement : « Il faut considérer les données de santé comme un bien commun » - 25 avril 2020
Un collectif de quatre experts de la gestion des données souligne dans une tribune au « Monde » le paradoxe de la plus grande confiance accordée par les citoyens aux Gafam qu’à l’Etat pour gérer leurs informations personnelles en matière de santé.
Tribune. L’Etat souhaite mettre en ligne une application, Stop Covid, pour (...)
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La police israélienne privée d’une partie de ses pouvoirs de surveillance des malades atteints par le coronavirus - 24 avril 2020
Le service de renseignement intérieur continue, en revanche, de pouvoir exercer des moyens de surveillance dignes de ceux de l’antiterrorisme pour identifier les personnes risquant d’être contaminées.
Une petite partie des importants pouvoirs de surveillance mis entre les mains des autorités israéliennes pour lutter (...)
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’Netanyahu’s actions more dangerous than coronavirus’ - 17 avril 2020
In an exclusive interview, Edward Snowden, the man who bared the secrets of American intelligence, says he is surprised that Israelis are not furious over the use of Shin Bet anti-terrorism measures to track people infected with the virus, which he calls ’intolerable’
Edward Snowden can’t understand why the Israelis (...)
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In dead of night, Israel approves harsher coronavirus tracking methods than gov’t stated - Israel News - Haaretz.com - 13 avril 2020
Government approves regulations permitting collection of data without court order, circumventing Knesset in the process ■ Data can be stored until regulations, which can be extended, expire
The Israeli government unanimously passed in the early hours of Tuesday new emergency regulations for tracking the cellphones (...)
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The coronavirus is expanding the surveillance state. How will this play out ? - 1er avril 2020
Improvised tech solutions today may be permanent policies tomorrow.
Governments around the world are responding to the coronavirus public health emergency with an unprecedented array of surveillance tools, designed to identify and track anyone who may be infectious.
These measures have dramatically escalated (...)
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The surveillance profiteers of COVID-19 are here | Engadget - 29 mars 2020
Our worlds are so upside-down and backwards right now that Wired claims Surveillance Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis, and privacy activist Maciej Cegłowski flat-out stated We Need A Massive Surveillance Program.
These normally privacy-forward sources are saying this in response to the pandemic, (...)
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Creating the coronopticon - Countries are using apps and data networks to keep tabs on the pandemic | Briefing | The Economist - 28 mars 2020
And also, in the process, their citizens
HAVING BEEN quarantined at his parents’ house in the Hebei province in northern China for a month, Elvis Liu arrived back home in Hong Kong on February 23rd. Border officials told him to add their office’s number to his WhatsApp contacts and to fix the app’s location-sharing (...)
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Surveillance de l’épidémie : la Cnil met en garde le gouvernement - Page 1 | Mediapart - 26 mars 2020
Alors qu’un projet « d’identification des personnes ayant été au contact de personnes infectées » se met en place, l’autorité chargée de la protection des données personnelles demande à l’État « de privilégier le traitement de données anonymisées ».
Alors que l’Élysée vient de lancer une réflexion sur l’utilisation des données (...)
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Coronavirus : pourquoi Israël a deux outils pour traquer les déplacements des malades - 24 mars 2020
Pour endiguer l’épidémie de coronavirus dans son pays, Israël veut identifier les personnes qui ont côtoyé les personnes malades. Pour y parvenir, elle a déployé une application gouvernementale, respectueuse de la vie privée et du consentement des utilisateurs. Et dans le même temps, elle a autorisé l’usage par ses (...)
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Israel Begins Tracking And Texting Those Possibly Exposed To The Coronavirus : NPR - 24 mars 2020
Hundreds of Israelis were startled Wednesday by an unsolicited text message.
"Hello. According to an epidemiological investigation," it began, addressing each recipient by name. "You were near someone sick with the coronavirus. You must immediately isolate at home [14 days] to protect your relatives and the (...)
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COVID-19 Could Provide Cover for Domestic Surveillance Expansion - VICE - 23 mars 2020
The use of location data to help track and manage the pandemic should come with meaningful safeguards and expiration dates, privacy experts say.
In the days and months to come, unprecedented global solidarity will emerge as the world battles the COVID-19 outbreak. But experts also worry the surging pandemic will (...)
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Coronavirus : Israël va collecter des données sur les citoyens - 22 mars 2020
EPIDEMIE La police pourra désormais obtenir, sans autorisation de justice, la localisation des porteurs du coronavirus et des personnes en quarantaine via les opérateurs téléphoniques
Pour lutter contre la propagation du coronavirus, Israël a pris une mesure d’urgence autorisant le service de sécurité intérieure à (...)
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Israël approuve des méthodes de surveillance électronique de masse contre le coronavirus - 17 mars 2020
Le Shin Bet pourra traquer les données de localisation des téléphones portables de personnes infectées sans autorisation préalable de la justice.
Le premier ministre israélien, Benyamin Nétanyahou, a autorisé l’usage de méthodes de surveillance électronique de masse, d’ordinaire réservées à la lutte antiterroriste, pour (...)
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To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data - 16 mars 2020
The information, intended for use in counterterrorism, would help identify people who have crossed paths with known patients.
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has authorized the country’s internal security agency to tap into a vast and previously undisclosed trove of cellphone data to retrace (...)
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Israel to use anti-terror tech to counter coronavirus ’invisible enemy’ - Reuters - 15 mars 2020
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel plans to use anti-terrorism tracking technology and a partial shutdown of its economy to minimize the risk of coronavirus transmission, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday.
Cyber tech monitoring would be deployed to locate people who have been in contact with those (...)
