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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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Employers are tracking us. Let’s track them back - 15 septembre 2020
Employers are using tech to track their employees ever more closely. Time for workers to reclaim their own data – and turn the surveillance back on their taskmasters, says Christina Colclough. Here’s what you need to know about your data, your rights, and how you can make sure they are protected.
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En Thaïlande, le gouvernement coupe l’accès à un important groupe Facebook prodémocratie - 29 août 2020
Le réseau social affirme qu’il va contester cette décision « contraire au droit international ».
Facebook va « contester » en justice un ordre du gouvernement thaïlandais qui l’a « obligé » à fermer l’accès à un groupe très populaire consacré au mouvement prodémocratie en cours dans le royaume. Le groupe privé en question, (...)
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Surveillance of minority Muslims in southern Thailand is powered by Chinese-style tech - 1er juillet 2020
Mandatory biometric registration has left many Malay Muslims distrustful of the state and concerned about how new technologies will impact their lives
When Arief’s cell phone service was cut off, it came as no surprise. He had refused to visit the local branch of his mobile provider and give his fingerprints and a (...)
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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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Like after 9/11, governments could use coronavirus to permanently roll back our civil liberties - 22 mai 2020
The ’emergency’ laws brought in after terrorism in 2001 reshaped the world — and there’s evidence that it could happen again
With over a million confirmed cases and a death toll quickly approaching 100,000, Covid-19 is the worst pandemic in modern history by many orders of magnitude. That governments were unprepared (...)
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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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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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A pandemic of power grabs - Autocrats see opportunity in disaster | Leaders | The Economist - 25 avril 2020
The world is distracted and the public need saving. It is a strongman’s dream
ALL THE world’s attention is on covid-19. Perhaps it was a coincidence that China chose this moment to tighten its control around disputed reefs in the South China Sea, arrest the most prominent democrats in Hong Kong and tear a hole in (...)
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We Mapped How the Coronavirus Is Driving New Surveillance Programs Around the World - 10 avril 2020
At least 28 countries are ramping up surveillance to combat the coronavirus
In an attempt to stem the tide of the coronavirus pandemic, more than 25 governments around the world have instituted temporary or indefinite efforts to single out infected individuals or maintain quarantines. Many of these efforts, in (...)
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Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19 | Privacy International - 20 mars 2020
Tech companies, governments, and international agencies have all announced measures to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
Some of these measures impose severe restrictions on people’s freedoms, including to their privacy and other human rights. Unprecedented levels of surveillance, data exploitation, (...)
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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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World Report 2020 : Shutting Down the Internet to Shut Up Critics | Human Rights Watch - 17 janvier 2020
From Caracas to Khartoum, protesters are leveraging the internet to organize online and stand up for their rights offline. In response, in the past year governments in Bangladesh, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Myanmar and Zimbabwe shut down the internet in all or (...)
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How governments use the internet to crush online dissent - 27 novembre 2019
Manal Al-Sharif was wearing sweatpants and a Mickey Mouse T-shirt when the police arrived at 2am. They banged on the door of her home so hard that the frame shook. The previous day, at the wheel of her brother’s car, Al-Sharif had been pulled over by traffic police – it was 2011, and still illegal in Saudi Arabia (...)
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Jeux vidéo, cinéma, médias, réseaux sociaux : comment la Chine étend sa censure en Occident - 11 novembre 2019
Les censeurs de Pékin ont accru leurs exigences depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Xi Jinping. Et trouvent du répondant dans de nombreuses firmes occidentales.
C’est un exemple récent parmi des dizaines d’autres. Le 8 octobre, Blizzard, l’éditeur américain de jeux vidéo à l’origine du très populaire Hearthstone, a annoncé (...)
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Pots-de-vin à l’étranger : Microsoft versera 25 millions de dollars de pénalités aux USA - 25 juillet 2019
Microsoft a accepté de régler des pénalités à hauteur de 25 millions de dollars auprès des autorités américaines. L’entreprise était poursuivie pour des faits de corruption à l’étranger.
Près de 25 millions de dollars. C’est le montant que Microsoft versera à deux autorités américaines (le ministère de la Justice et l’organisme (...)
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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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7-Eleven va introduire la reconnaissance faciale dans ses 11 000 magasins en Thaïlande - 19 mars 2018
7-Eleven va utiliser les technologies de reconnaissance faciale et d’analyse du comportement pour identifier les membres fidèles, analyser le trafic en magasin, surveiller les niveaux de produits, proposer des produits aux clients et même mesurer les émotions des clients lorsqu’ils se promènent dans les magasins.
La (...)
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La demande d’extradition chinoise actualise la question de répression des Ouïghours - 22 février 2018
Une demande chinoise d’extradition d’onze Ouïghours de Malaisie met en lumière le déploiement par la Chine de l’un des systèmes de surveillance et des mesures militaires les plus intrusifs du monde pour empêcher les combattants étrangers ouïghours de retourner des pays comme le Pakistan au Xinjiang.
Une demande chinoise (...)
