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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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Special Report : Cyber-intel firms pitch governments on spy tools to trace coronavirus - 8 mai 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When law enforcement agencies want to gather evidence locked inside an iPhone, they often turn to hacking software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite. By manually plugging the software into a suspect’s phone, police can break in and determine where the person has gone and whom he or she has (...)
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These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For A Massive Facial Recognition Database - 17 avril 2018
When Mark Zuckerberg appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica revelations, he tried to describe the difference between "surveillance and what we do." "The difference is extremely clear," a nervous-looking Zuckerberg said. "On Facebook, you have (...)
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Companies from the UK, the US, and Israel provided mass surveillance capabilities to Colombian security services - 2 septembre 2015
Privacy International’s new report exposes the companies that have built the Colombian Government’s controversial and highly invasive surveillance systems. The report “Demand/Supply : Exposing the Surveillance Industry in Colombia” shows the extensive dealings that companies from Israel, the UK, the USA, Finland, and (...)
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How Colombia built a shadow state, a new Privacy International investigation reveals - 31 août 2015
"We always assume we are being watched. It is part of our understanding," explained Father Alberto. The clergyman knows what it’s like to live under surveillance. Father Alberto is Executive Secretary of the Inter-ecclesiastical Commission for Justice and Peace in Colombia, which supports displaced and (...)
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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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For sale : Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe - 26 août 2014
Makers of surveillance systems are offering governments across the world the ability to track the movements of almost anybody who carries a cellphone, whether they are blocks away or on another continent.
The technology works by exploiting an essential fact of all cellular networks : They must keep detailed, (...)
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What was the Israeli involvement in collecting U.S. communications intel for NSA ? - 4 août 2013
Israeli high-tech firms Verint and Narus have had connections with U.S. companies and Israeli intelligence in the past, and ties between the countries’ intelligence agencies remain strong.
Were Israeli companies Verint and Narus the ones that collected information from the U.S. communications network for the (...)
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Internet massivement surveillé - 4 décembre 2011
WikiLeaks rend public aujourd’hui près de 1 100 documents internes, plaquettes commerciales et modes d’emploi des produits commercialisés par les industriels des systèmes de surveillance et d’interception des télécommunications.
Ces nouvelles fuites montrent un marché de la surveillance de masse représentant désormais (...)
