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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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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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Kenya now has a data protection law. What does this mean for netizens ? - 10 janvier 2020
Kenya’s new data protection law was long overdue
On November 8, 2019, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta ascended the 2019 Data Protection Bill into law. Kenya now joins 25 out of 54 African countries that have so far implemented laws on personal data protection with Zambia and Zimbabwe soon joining their ranks. (...)
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New report by AlgorithmWatch : Identity-management and citizen scoring in Ghana, Rwanda, Tunisia, Uganda, Zimbabwe and China - 25 octobre 2019
A review of identity-management practices in five African countries shows that much of the continent is well on its way towards comprehensive biometric registration. It could enable comprehensive citizen scoring or automated surveillance in the near future.
The report Identity-management and citizen scoring in (...)
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Judges raise the gavel to #KeepItOn around the world - 27 septembre 2019
In July, Sudan ended a five-week long internet shutdown. A case brought by the Sudanese lawyer Abdelazeem Hassan is reported to have been the catalyst for the court order to the telco companies MTN and Sudatel to restore internet access in the country. Winning the lawsuit was a victory for freedom of expression (...)
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Internet en Afrique : Comment les gouvernements le ferment-ils ? - 31 mars 2019
Pas de Facebook, Twitter ou WhatsApp.C’est ce qui devient de plus en plus courant dans certains pays africains, où les gouvernements ont périodiquement fermé l’Internet ou bloqué les plateformes de médias sociaux.
Cela fait un an que le Tchad a bloqué l’accès aux sites de médias sociaux les plus populaires.
Le Soudan en (...)
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China is exporting its digital surveillance methods to African governments - 2 novembre 2018
China has consistently been ranked by digital advocates as the world’s worst abuser of internet freedom. The country, however, isn’t just tightening online controls at home but is becoming more brazen in exporting some of those techniques abroad including in Africa, says a new report from the US-based think tank (...)
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Beijing’s Big Brother Tech Needs African Faces - 20 août 2018
Zimbabwe is signing up for China’s surveillance state, but its citizens will pay the price.
Daily life in China is gated by security technology, from the body scanners and X-ray machines at every urban metro station to the demand for ID numbers on social media platforms so that dangerous speech can be traced and (...)
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Le Zimbabwe vend le visage de ses citoyens à la Chine en échange de caméras - 20 août 2018
Le gouvernement du Zimbabwe a besoin de l’expertise chinoise en matière de surveillance. De son côté, CloudWalk Technology, start-up chinoise, a besoin d’images de visages de personnes noires pour perfectionner son logiciel de reconnaissance faciale, biaisé jusqu’ici, car reconnaissant mieux les visages blancs. L’accord, (...)
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Les Africains sur écoute - 3 septembre 2015
Les révélations de Julian Assange et d’Edward Snowden ont mis au jour l’omniprésence de la surveillance planétaire américaine. Gouvernements mais aussi particuliers en sont les cibles privilégiées. Des documentaires comme Citizenfour montrent qu’aucune personne qu’elle soit chancelière de la République fédérale d’Allemagne (...)
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Counter-Surveillance Success Stories to Inspire Digital Rights Advocates - 27 septembre 2014
Concerned European Internet users will descend upon Brussels on September 26 to participate in Freedom Not Fear 2014"”a European week of action aimed to fight against a widespread surveillance state. Since 2008, a coalition of European organizations has met annually under the banner of Freedom Not Fear to fight (...)
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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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U.S. Says It Built Digital Programs Abroad With an Eye to Politics - 29 avril 2014
The United States built Twitter-like social media programs in Afghanistan and Pakistan, like one in Cuba, that were aimed at encouraging open political discussion, Obama administration officials said Friday. But like the program in Cuba, which was widely ridiculed when it became public this month, the services in (...)
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Zimbabwe : le gouvernement a ordonné la surveillance des appels, SMS et mails - 6 octobre 2013
Le programme de surveillance du gouvernement du Zimbabwe contrôlera désormais les appels téléphoniques, les SMS et les mails produit par les Zimbabwéens. Ceux-ci seront stockés dans la base de données nationale et utilisés à la demande des services de sécurité de l’Etat. Même les sites visités par le public devront être (...)
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With new promise comes new perils : ICTs and the right to privacy in Africa - 30 novembre 2012
One of the first things that strikes you about the chaotic East African metropolises of Kenya, Uganda and Zimbabwe is the blanket of adverts for mobile phone companies that covers them, from the walls of the immigration hall at Harare airport, to the rickety shacks that line the dusty streets of Kampala. Where (...)
