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Why COVID-19 vaccine « passports » threaten human rights
▻https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-vaccine-passports-threaten-human-rights

As the global COVID-19 vaccine rollout gains momentum, governments from Bahrain to Denmark are clamoring to implement measures to help the world return to pre-virus normality. This includes exploring digital vaccine certificates — or COVID-19 vaccine “passports” — that would record and authenticate a person’s vaccination status. Current proposals, however, threaten human rights by creating space for exclusion and discrimination to flourish, and posing serious long-term threats to the privacy and (...)

#passeport #biométrie #données #COVID-19 #discrimination #santé #AccessNow

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President of Mexico should veto the biometric mobile phone registry
▻https://www.accessnow.org/mexicos-new-biometric-mobile-phone-registry

Collecting personal biometric data in exchange for a mobile SIM card is unnecessary and dangerous. Yet, this is the stark reality the Mexican Chamber of Senators has set in motion after voting yesterday, April 13, in favor of establishing a National Register of Mobile Phone Users. Access Now and Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) call on the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to veto the alarming new biometric mobile phone registry. “The president must be consistent (...)

#smartphone #SIM #biométrie #criminalité #données #reconnaissance #empreintes #AccessNow

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Dear Spotify : don’t manipulate our emotions for profit
▻https://www.accessnow.org/spotify-tech-emotion-manipulation

Today, Access Now sent a letter to Spotify calling on the company to abandon the technology underlying its recently granted speech-recognition patent because it presents grave privacy and security concerns. The always-on technology claims to be able to detect, among other things, “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music. Access Now’s major concerns with the technology are : Emotion manipulation : Monitoring emotional state, and making recommendations based on it, puts (...)

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Government orders internet shutdown in Delhi on India’s Republic Day
▻https://www.accessnow.org/internet-shutdown-in-delhi-on-indias-republic-day

India’s Union Ministry of Home Affairs has issued orders directing internet shutdowns across several areas of the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi today, January 26, the nation’s Republic Day. Reports of disrupted internet and telecom connectivity emerged earlier today as the Delhi Police clashed with farming groups taking part in a planned protest in Delhi. People in several parts of the city received messages from telecom providers stating that services had been disrupted (...)

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Human rights organizations respond to NSO : victims’ voices will not be silenced
▻https://www.accessnow.org/nso-victims-voices-will-not-be-silenced

Today, January 7, Access Now, along with seven other human rights organizations, filed a reply to NSO Group’s opposition to the coalition’s amicus brief in the case of WhatsApp v. NSO in the U.S. Federal 9th Circuit Court. In their opposition, NSO argued that the court should reject the brief on the grounds that it duplicates other amici briefs and introduces allegedly impermissible facts about NSO and its customers. In reply, Access Now argues that the brief meets the Federal Rules of (...)

#Microsoft #NSO #WhatsApp #Pegasus #spyware #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow #Amnesty (...)

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NSO Group WhatsApp hack victims speak out, from India to Rwanda
▻https://www.accessnow.org/nso-whatsapp-hacking-victims-stories

Around the world, governments are using surveillance tools they have purchased from Israeli spyware firm NSO Group — the infamous creator of Pegasus — to monitor and crack down on human rights defenders. Access Now and our partners have repeatedly called on NSO Group and its investors to stop providing its products to countries who use them as tools of oppression, but the company has failed to take any meaningful steps to address these harms. Since 2016 — when UAE human rights activist Ahmed (...)

#NSO #WhatsApp #Pegasus #smartphone #spyware #activisme #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow (...)

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Iran internet shutdowns : human rights consequences
▻https://www.accessnow.org/iran-internet-shutdowns

Iranians may soon lose their capacity to access global internet services just when they need it most : during protests when security forces violently crack down on demonstrators, and they need to broadcast the events to help their fellow citizens and alert the international media and human rights organizations. They could also see their every move tracked by the Iranian government, as their only option will be to use regime-friendly digital services. That is because Iran has been building (...)

#censure #écoutes #surveillance #AccessNow

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Future EU-US data transfers ? EU must push back on the US’s surveillance game
▻https://www.accessnow.org/future-eu-us-data-transfers-eu-must-push-back-on-the-uss-surveillance-gam

Brussels & Washington DC — Access Now and the American Civil Liberties Union are calling on the European Commission to press the United States to reform its surveillance laws, so that any future instrument for EU-US data transfers complies with EU law and withstands judicial scrutiny. The groups are set to meet with Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders tomorrow, October 2, together with other civil society partners, to discuss the way forward for EU-US data transfers after the (...)

#données #FISA #PrivacyShield #surveillance #AccessNow #ACLU

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Human rights groups ask U.N. to intervene in U.S. crackdown on racial justice protesters
▻https://www.accessnow.org/human-rights-groups-ask-u-n-to-intervene-in-u-s-crackdown-on-racial-justi

This week, Access Now and the USC Gould School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic (USC IHRC) – with the support of the international law firm Foley Hoag LLP (on behalf of Access Now) – submitted an Urgent Appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedoms of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Mr. Clement Nyaletossi Voule. The Urgent Appeal – an emergency U.N. Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures mechanism that raises attention to human rights violations by (...)

#ICE #CBP #CCTV #smartphone #activisme #racisme #militaire #aérien #vidéo-surveillance #BlackLivesMatter #écoutes #surveillance (...)

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Facial recognition on trial : emotion and gender “detection” under scrutiny in a court case in Brazil
▻https://www.accessnow.org/facial-recognition-on-trial-emotion-and-gender-detection-under-scrutiny-i

We are seeing AI-powered facial recognition systems deployed in increasingly sensitive environments around the world, and often without people’s knowledge or consent. It is critical to ensure these systems do not facilitate human rights violations, in particular of people and communities who are already at risk. When they are put in place on the basis of pseudoscientific claims that enable discriminatory inferences, it hurts human rights and destroys public trust. The Brazilian Institute of (...)

#algorithme #CCTV #biométrie #technologisme #données #émotions #facial #reconnaissance #sexisme #vidéo-surveillance #LGBT #surveillance # (...)

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Les Applications de traçage numérique pour la lutte contre le COVID-19 dans la région MENA : un cauchemar pour les données personnelles
▻https://www.accessnow.org/les-applications-de-tracage-numerique-pour-la-lutte-contre-le-covid-19-da

En réponse à la pandémie mondiale de COVID-19, un certain nombre de pays de la région MENA ont fait appel à la technologie dans le but de détecter et limiter la propagation du virus, que ce soit avec applications, des drones, ou des robots pour suivre le mouvement des citoyens en quarantaine. Maintenant que les pays cherchent à revenir peu à peu à la normale et de lever les mesures de confinement, de plus en plus de pays se mettent à développer leurs propres applications de traçage numérique comme (...)

#Bluetooth #smartphone #GPS #AccessNow #algorithme #Wizzlabs #E7mi #BeAware #Tatamman #Wiqaytna #EHTERAZ #contactTracing #technologisme #consentement #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking (...)

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COVID-19 contact-tracing apps in MENA : a privacy nightmare
▻https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-in-mena-a-privacy-nightmare

At the outbreak of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a number of countries in the MENA region turned to technology to help track and prevent the spread of the virus, using apps, drones, and even robots to monitor the movement of citizens under quarantine. Now, as countries are looking to slowly return to life and lift lockdown measures, more are jumping on the bandwagon, including developing their own contact-tracing apps, as seen most recently in Morocco and Tunisia. While contact-tracing (...)

#algorithme #Bluetooth #E7mi #EHTERAZ #smartphone #Wizzlabs #GPS #Wiqaytna #BeAware #Tatamman #contactTracing #technologisme #consentement #métadonnées #BigData #COVID-19 #hacking #santé (...)

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Human rights organizations call on Egyptian authorities to cease restrictions on internet freedoms and digital rights
▻https://www.accessnow.org/human-rights-organizations-call-on-egyptian-authorities-to-cease-restrict

Following the rise in the number of patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Egyptian authorities have taken significant, large-scale measures in order to limit the spread of the virus. These include imposing a curfew on citizens for a specified number of hours, the full and temporary closure of some government departments, and reduction of the number of present employees in other departments and entities. However, the Egyptian government has persisted in its practices that restrict (...)

#censure #surveillance #SocialNetwork

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#KeepItOn : Burundi silences the majority on election day
▻https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-burundi-silences-the-majority-on-election-day

As millions of Burundians head to the polls to elect their next president today, May 20, 2020, the Pierre Nkurunziza government has rushed to block access to social media including Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and YouTube. This blatant denial of the rights to access information and freedom of expression casts a dark shadow over the much-anticipated election in Burundi. Sources in Burundi have told Access Now that there have been two rounds of shutdowns : the first-round of social media (...)

#censure #élections #SocialNetwork #surveillance

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It’s not the first time Iran has shut down the internet, but this time, it’s different
▻https://www.accessnow.org/its-not-the-first-time-iran-has-shut-down-the-internet-but-this-time-its-

A rushed decision by the Iranian government to raise fuel prices by 50%, after years of political and economic instability and threats to human rights, has forced Iranians across the country into the streets to demand change. According to Amnesty International, at least a dozen protesters have been killed, many injured and more than a thousand have been arrested. As more people joined demonstrations, the government responded by imposing a blanket internet shutdown starting on November 16, (...)

#contrôle #censure #surveillance #AccessNow #web

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New report shows 100+ members of civil society targeted as NSO Group continues to evade scrutiny
▻https://www.accessnow.org/new-report-shows-100-members-of-civil-society-targeted-as-nso-group-conti

In May this year, we published an article detailing a WhatsApp breach where the secure messaging app was found to be vulnerable to a specific type of attack by malicious actors. Today, on the back of a lengthy investigation by WhatsApp and our friends at Citizen Lab, we are finally learning more about who the targets of those attacks were and how they were carried out. The joint investigation revealed that a total of 1400+ individuals were targeted, out of whom over 100 have already been (...)

#NSO #Facebook #WhatsApp #smartphone #Pegasus #spyware #activisme #journalisme #écoutes #hacking #surveillance (...)

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United Nations : protect rights in welfare systems’ tech overhaul
▻https://www.accessnow.org/un-protect-rights-in-welfare-systems-tech-overhaul

Automating benefits, services threatens welfare rights, privacy (New York, October 17, 2019) – Governments should heed the call of the United Nations’ leading expert on poverty to fully integrate human rights protections into their efforts to digitize and automate welfare benefits and services, seven human rights groups said today. In a report released this week, the U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, warns that the rapid digitization and automation (...)

#algorithme #pauvreté #surveillance #profiling #AccessNow

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Is NSO Group’s infamous Pegasus spyware being traded through the EU ?
▻https://www.accessnow.org/is-nso-groups-infamous-pegasus-spyware-being-traded-through-the-eu

When sophisticated surveillance systems are sold and used effectively without constraint, it puts civil society, free expression, and our democracies in the crosshairs. The brutal murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi remains a grim reminder of the vulnerability of those speaking out for human rights. In the European Union, there are export controls designed to prevent sales of these kinds of systems to certain countries with troubling human rights records. The question is, how well (...)

#NSO #Pegasus #spyware #exportation #activisme #sécuritaire #hacking #surveillance #journalisme #web (...)

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#Cameroun : Orange coupe l’internet à la minorité anglophone sur ordre du gouvernement
▻http://multinationales.org/Cameroun-Orange-coupe-l-internet-a-la-minorite-anglophone-sur-ordre

Sur fond de manifestations de la minorité anglophone du Cameroun, le régime de Paul Biya a décidé de passer à la manière forte en coupant totalement l’accès à l’internet dans les provinces concernées. Les trois opérateurs du pays, dont le français Orange, se sont empressés d’obtempérer à l’injonction gouvernementale. Le Cameroun est devenu le théâtre de la plus longue coupure d’accès à Internet (à la fois sur le réseau filaire et mobile) enregistrée sur le continent africain à ce jour. Depuis le 17 janvier (...)

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/ Orange (France Télécom), Cameroun, #droits_humains, #Télécommunications, #liberté_d'expression_et_de_la_presse, franceinfo (...)

#Orange_France_Télécom_ #franceinfo_ :
« ►http://geopolis.francetvinfo.fr/cameroun-les-anglophones-prives-d-internet-par-le-pouvoir-1368 »
« ▻https://business-humanrights.org/en/cameroon-access-now-and-civil-society-organisations-call-on-te »
« ►https://www.accessnow.org/lettre-ouverte-aux-entreprises-de-telecommunications-au-cameroun »
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Depuis mi-janvier les régions anglophones du Cameroun n’ont plus accès à internet. Cette coupure fait suite à une série de manifestations dans cette partie du pays. C’est la plus longue sur le continent africain.
▻https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/le-numerique-et-nous/cameroun-le-pouvoir-continue-de-priver-les-anglophones-dinternet