Surveillance

20 stories about Surveillance
קורונה סמארטפון Covid 19 אפליקציה

Israel is ending its cellphone surveillance to track Covid-19 next month

17.12.20|Reuters
The method has faced challenges in courts and parliament because of privacy concerns and questions about its efficacy
Police State

How predictive analytics can support effective lockdown management

28.10.20|DJ Das
AI-powered predictive analytics solutions can provide crucial insights to law enforcement teams, allowing them to fairly and effectively enforce lockdown restrictions and back up their decision-making with data
NSO  עמרי לביא

Evolve or die: The cybersecurity industry’s challenges in the post-coronavirus world

26.08.20|Omri Lavie
Organizations must be ready to adopt changes in order to ensure we can securely conduct our new remotely-managed lives
מוסף שבועי 20.8.20 אבנר פז צוק stream

Former IDF cyber chief warns of red-lines being crossed and the erosion of Israel’s democracy

21.08.20|Sophie Shulman
Avenr Paz Tzuk talks to Calcalist about the ethics of surveillance, his faith in education and his fear of a military brain drain
ריגול ממשלתי ניטור המוני פרטיות מצלמות מעקב 3

Employee surveillance tools emerge as a serious side effect of Covid-19

17.08.20|Viki Auslender
Dystopian products that track workers' every move have become hot commodities for managers who had to transition to supervise remote teams
מליאת הכנסת קורונה

Israeli parliament votes to relaunch phone surveillance program as Covid-19 resurges

01.07.20|Omer Kabir
Lawmakers voted 53 to 38 in favor of bill permitting cellular tracking of phones as the number of infected breaks daily record
משרדי NSO ב הרצליה

Facebook reinstates social media accounts of blocked NSO employees

30.06.20|Hagar Ravet
“We will continue to utilize all our available tools to ensure that our platforms are not being misused,” social media giant tells Calcalist
קורונה שוק מחנה יהודה ירושלים

Contact tracing apps' first task is winning the public's trust

26.06.20|Dov Greenbaum
As even seemingly benign user data can prove extremely compromising, for governments to effectively use apps to halt the spread of Covid-19, they must first prove their commitment to privacy and data security
ריגול ממשלתי ניטור המוני פרטיות מצלמות מעקב 1

Big Brother is back to tracking citizens because Netanyahu fell asleep on the job

25.06.20|Omer Kabir
What started as an extreme emergency measure is turning into the norm because the authorities failed to come up with alternatives
מטה NSO הרצליה סייבר 1

Amnesty report claims NSO’s Pegasus was used to spy on a Moroccan journalist

22.06.20|Omer Kabir
The human rights group conducted a forensic examination of Omar Radi’s phone and found digital fingerprints of the Israeli cyber company
רכבת תחתית ניו יורק קורונה חזרה לשגרה

Israeli Covid-19 patient tracing app is raising privacy concerns in the U.S.

16.06.20|Raphael Kahan
GlobeKeeper’s SAFE tracing app works with a smartphone or tablet’s Bluetooth technology to communicate with other devices in range
נדב ארגמן ראש השב"כ 2018

Israel to cease using mobile phone tracking to monitor Covid-19 patients

08.06.20| Zvi Zrahiya
Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman says his organization was uncomfortable with the task of tracing innocent civilians
ח"כ יועז הנדל לשעבר ממפלגת כחול לבן

Israeli government gets another 48 hours to submit bill regulating spying on Covid-19 patients

08.06.20|Zvi Zrahiya
According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, security agency Shin Bet was only approached to track one patient in recent weeks
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States should green-light individual risk scoring apps to help prevent Covid-19 spread

07.06.20| Ido Erev and Oren Fuerst
Resistance to tracking apps can be tackled by encouraging the use of voluntary risk assessment apps that transmit information to users while maintaining privacy
קורונה בית ספר גבעת רם קריית אתא תלמידים תלמידות מסכות

As the U.S. mulls technological tracing of students, Israel must slam the door on such proposals

07.06.20|Omer Kabir
Despite infections in schools increasing, Israel must resist the temptation of deepening its surveillance tactics
אבירם שוטן קוואליטסט

6 Principles to Prevent Misuse of Network-Based Tracking in the War on Covid-19

02.06.20|Aviram Shotten
The software discloses substantial details about one’s habits and routines, hence these systems need strict governance as to when and how they should be used
מימין סלע בלונדהיים גיל פרי אלירן קוטה D-ID

Israeli Privacy Protection Startup D-ID Raises $13.5 Million

27.05.20|Meir Orbach
The company helps organizations comply with privacy regulations by fooling face recognition algorithms
זיהוי פנים ריגול מעקב פרטיות

Lawmakers Extend Spy Agency’s Covid-19 Patient Tracking Program by Three Weeks

26.05.20|Omer Kabir
Special committee votes to employ Shin Bet’s surveillance only in cases where an epidemiological study isn't sufficient
עומסים כבדים התחנה המרכזית ב ירושלים קורונה

Emergency Over? Israel Wants to Extend Phone Tracking Program that Monitors Covid-19’s Spread

21.05.20|Omer Kabir
“The health ministry and the state have become enamored with the ISA’s surveillance,” says leading privacy lawyer
מימין מתן גוטמן אלי מרזל CRT

Former Israeli Watchdogs Launch Startup to Monitor Human Rights Violations in Tech

20.05.20|Sophie Shulman
CRT has formulated an ethical code and methodology through which technologies are examined to make sure they adhere to international human rights and privacy guidelines and prevent misuse