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Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19 | Privacy International
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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, and misinformation are being tested across the world. Many of those measures are based on extraordinary powers, only to be used temporarily in emergencies. Others use exemptions in (...)

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Kenyan Court Ruling on Huduma Namba Identity System : the Good, the Bad and the Lessons | Privacy International
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PI presents its analysis of the Huduma Numba judgment in three parts : the clear wins, the parts that make some small steps forward but could have been better and the dissapointing losses. Kenya’s National Integrated Identity Management Scheme (NIIMS) is a biometric database of the Kenyan population, that will eventually be used to give every person in the country a unique “Huduma Namba” for accessing services. This system has the aim of being the “single point of truth”, a biometric population (...)

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2020 is a crucial year to fight for data protection in Africa | PI
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3390/2020-crucial-year-fight-data-protection-africa

Africa is a testing ground for technologies produced elsewhere : as a result, personal data of its people are increasingly stored in hundreds of databases. And commercial interests seem to often overshadow the EU’s stance as a global privacy leader. After looking at Europes’s shady funds to border forces in the Sahel area, Niger’s new biometric voting system, and attempts to dismantle smugglers networks powered by Europe’s gifts of surveillance, freelance journalist Giacomo Zandonini looks at (...)

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No, Facebook’s is not telling you everything | PI
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3372/no-facebooks-not-telling-you-everything

Key facts : Despite Facebook claim, “Download Your Information” doesn’t provide users with a list of all advertisers who uploaded a list with their personal data As a user this means you can’t exercise your rights under GDPR because you don’t know which companies have uploaded data to Facebook Information provided about the advertisers is also very limited (just a name and no contact details), preventing users from effectively exercising their rights Recently announced Off-Facebook feature (...)

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PI and Liberty submit a new legal challenge after MI5 admits that vast troves of personal data was held in “ungoverned spaces” | PI
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Friday, January 31, 2020 Privacy International (PI) and Liberty have filed on Friday a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the judicial body that oversees the intelligence agencies, against MI5 in relation to how they handle vast troves of personal data. The longstanding and serious failings of MI5 in relation to these ‘ungoverned spaces’ first emerged in PI’s pre-existing case (Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and others), (...)

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MONITORYOU : the MilliONs beIng spenT by the eu on develOping surveillance tech to taRget YOU | PI
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The European Union (EU) spends billions on research and development aimed at driving economic growth and jobs, as well as furthering the bloc’s broader agenda. Within the current budget, known as Horizon 2020 and covering the years 2014-2020, some €80 billion has been made available for research in a huge number of areas, ranging from finding cures for diseases to helping keep the earth viable for life. From the same budget, it also funds a lot of projects aimed at developing surveillance (...)

#algorithme #robotique #CCTV #anti-terrorisme #biométrie #migration #facial #prédiction #reconnaissance #vidéo-surveillance #data #frontières #SocialNetwork #surveillance (...)

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Cloud extraction technology : the secret tech that lets government agencies collect masses of data from your apps | PI
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When government searches shift from the phone to the cloud : cloud extraction technology and ‘the future of mobile forensics’ Mobile phones remain the most frequently used and most important digital source for law enforcement investigations. Yet it is not just what is physically stored on the phone that law enforcement are after, but what can be accessed from it, primarily data stored in the Cloud. As we spend more time using social media, messaging apps, store files with the likes of (...)

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Alexa, what is hidden behind your contract with the NHS ?
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Following a series of FOI requests from Privacy International and other organisations, the Department of Health and Social Care has now released its contract with Amazon, regarding the use of NHS content by Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant. The content of the contract is to a big extent redacted, and we contest the Department of Health’s take on the notion of public interest. Remember when in July this year the UK government announced a partnership with Amazon so that people would now be (...)

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Social Protection Systems in the Digital Age
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/long-read/3259/big-brother-says-no-surveillance-and-income-management-asylum-

Big Brother says ‘No’ : Surveillance and income management of asylum seekers though the ASPEN Card In the digital age, governments across the world are building technologically integrated programmes to allow citizens to access welfare payments. While smart and digital technologies hold the potential to streamline administrative processes and reach millions, they can also have adverse effects on those they should be supporting. Social protection systems around the world are increasingly (...)

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No Body’s Business But Mine : How Menstruation Apps Are Sharing Your Data
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In December 2018, Privacy international exposed the dubious practices of some of the most popular apps in the world. Out of the 36 apps we tested, we found that 61% automatically transfer data to Facebook the moment a user opens the app. This happens whether the user has a Facebook account or not, and whether they are logged into Facebook or not. We also found that some of those apps routinely send Facebook incredibly detailed and sometimes sensitive personal data. Again, it didn’t matter (...)

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Internet Monitoring
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/12

Internet monitoring is the act of capturing data as it travels across the internet towards its intended destination. The units being monitored or captured are often referred to as ‘packets’. Packets are the broken up parts of the data sent (messages, emails, images, web pages, files) over Internet Protocol which computers break into small chunks, rout through a network of computers and then reassemble at their destination to become the message, web page, image or file presented to you on your (...)

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Court documents reveal oversight body struggling to control GCHQ domestic hacking
▻https://www.privacyinternational.org/node/681

Documents released today confirm GCHQ, the UK intelligence agency, is hacking computers in the United Kingdom without individual warrants. The documents contain previously unknown details and defenses of GCHQ’s use of “thematic warrants” to hack. The legal challenge in which these documents are being disclosed was brought by Privacy International and seven internet and communications service providers from around the world in response to disclosures made by Edward Snowden. The Commissioner (...) #GCHQ #hacking #surveillance #Royaume-uni

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GCHQ-NSA intelligence sharing unlawful, says UK surveillance tribunal | Privacy International
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British intelligence services acted unlawfully in accessing millions of people’s personal communications collected by the NSA, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ruled today. The decision marks the first time that the Tribunal, the only UK court empowered to oversee GHCQ, MI5 and MI6, has ever ruled against the intelligence and security services in its 15 year history.

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Privacy International uncovers widespread surveillance throughout Central Asia, exposes role of Israeli companies | Privacy International
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#Surveillance systems in the region are enabled by foreign companies that provide the products and services that allow Central Asian governments to spy on their citizens. The largest players in the region are two multinational technology companies with offices in Israel: Verint Israel and NICE Systems. Privacy International uncovered that these companies have supplied monitoring centres to Kazakhstan’s KNB and Uzbekistan’s SNB, two security agencies widely implicated in human rights abuses. The monitoring centres allow agencies unchecked access to citizens’ telephone calls and internet activity on a mass, indiscriminate scale.

The investigation also found that Verint attempted to facilitate Uzbek authorities’ interception of encrypted SSL traffic using fake certificates, based on technology provided by US-based company Netronome, which is owned by Blue Coat. Should Verint have been successful, it would have enabled Uzbek authorities unprecedented access to private communications, and undermined the web’s most secure form of communication.

UN report: The link between State surveillance and freedom of expression | Privacy International
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Importantly, the report recognizes the vital role of the private sector, in both the advancement of communications technology as well as facilitators of, or at worst complicit in, State surveillance. Innovations and research by the private sector undoubtedly have contributed greatly to how we communicate. What the report cautions, however, is the nature of the relationship between the state and corporations when it comes to surveillance.

Since the 1990s, governments have increasingly sought to require communication technologies and digital networks to allow for easy access to communications data, ie backdoors. The private sector not only interfaces with the State to deal with these requests, but how they store and process data, making them huge repositories of personal information available to the state at virtually any time, according to the report.

But the greatest danger, the report cautions, is the global industry that has developed around the sale of invasive and mass surveillance technologies to governments. The industry, the report highlights, remains virtually unregulated and often operates outside of existing legal standards. Repressive regimes are commonly the buyers of the technology, making it more likely that the products being sold and serviced by private companies will be used to carry out human right abuses. The report calls on governments to “ensure that the private sector is able to carry out its functions independently in a manner that promotes individuals’ human rights”. At the same time, the report states that corporations “cannot be allowed to participate in activities that infringe upon human rights, and States have a responsibility to hold companies accountable in this regard.”

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