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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

מוסף שבועי 14.5.20 ד"ר יואב ספיר

Covid-19 Crisis Sidelined Individual Rights and Hurt Relations Between Police and the Public

17.05.20|Amir Kurtz

Yoav Sapir, Israel’s National Public Defender, witnessed how quickly justice was eroded under the state of emergency—cops that acted out of order, courthouses that shut their doors to the needy and undue surveillance of citizens— but he still believes that Covid-19 is an opportunity to make improvements

מייקל מייק רוג'רס

Former NSA Chief: Values Must Not be Compromised in the Name of Security, Not Even During a Pandemic

12.05.20|Viki Auslender

Mike Rogers, who was named head of the NSA at the height of the Snowden scandal is acutely aware of how fragile the public trust is in the intelligence entities of the democratic nations

ועידה כלכלית לאומית 2019 גבי אשכנזי כחול לבן

Tech Gone Too Far? Lawmakers Seek to Curb Police Surveillance of Suspected Covid-19 Patients

Israeli parliament Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee pushing new bill meant to replace temporary regulations that authorized widespread use of digital tracking

נפתלי בנט יו"ר מפלגת הימין החדש

New Israeli Covid-19 Infection Ranking App Reminiscent of China’s Citizen Ranking System, Experts Say

01.04.20|Omer Kabir

Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett is pushing a new system that gathers data on Israeli citizens and automatically rates their coronavirus infectability. Privacy, tech, and law experts say the system endangers democracy

ועידת הדיגיטל והמובייל אוריאל רווה Anyvision

Microsoft Sells its Stake in AnyVision, Desists Minor Investments in Facial Identification Technologies

29.03.20|Raphael Kahan

In November, Microsoft started an investigation into the Israeli startup after multiple media outlets reported its technology was being used by Israeli forces to surveil Palestinians in the West Bank

קורונה שוק הכרמל תל אביב

Israel's Supreme Court Allows Police to Surveil Civilian Phones to Enforce Quarantine Regulations

25.03.20|Tomer Ganon

Police will only be allowed to gather sporadic real-time location information to make sure those who have the virus or were in risk of exposure remain in their designated quarantine locations

חדר בידוד קורונה ב בית החולים שיבא

Israeli Hospitals Video-Surveil Covid-19 Patients Around the Clock

22.03.20|Tomer Ganon and Anat Roeh

Of the 274 hospitalized coronavirus patients in Israel, only 34 are considered in serious or critical condition, which means nearly 90% of hospitalized cases may be under constant surveillance without medical cause

קורונה ירושלים קניות בשעת חירום

Israeli Ministry of Health Partners With GlobeKeeper for Voluntary Civilian Monitoring App

22.03.20|Meir Orbach

On Thursday, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled against emergency regulations letting the police and Shin Bet obtain information on coronavirus patients without a warrant

קונים ב שוק בעידן ה קורונה

Israel's Health Ministry Orders 400 People Into Quarantine Via SMS Texts

19.03.20|Amir Kurz, Tomer Ganon, and Omer Kabir

The texts were sent according to phone location signals, collected through hasty emergency legislation, showing these people were in close contact with confirmed coronavirus cases

ד"ר תהילה שוורץ אלטשולר המכון הישראלי לדמוקרטיה

The Government Has Turned Most Israelis Into Potential Surveillance Subjects, Says Researcher

19.03.20|Omer Kabir

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler of the Israel Democracy Institute is one of many privacy experts and law professionals to criticize the Israeli government’s decision to use surveillance technologies on Covid-19 patients

אולם דיונים ב בית משפט עליון

New Petition Urges Israel’s Supreme Court to Stop Plans to Surveil Civilians

17.03.20|Tomer Ganon

New regulations passed by the Israeli government, bypassing parliament, let the police and Shin Bet obtain information on coronavirus patients without a warrant

קונים ב שוק בעידן ה קורונה

Israeli Government Bypasses Parliament, Approves Surveillance on Civilians to Fight Covid-19

17.03.20|Omer Kabir

After a parliamentary subcommittee refused to grant police and Shin Bet the authority to use technological means to monitor the location of coronavirus patients, the Israeli government utilized the country’s permanent state of emergency to pass the regulations

שלו חוליו מייסד ומנכ"ל NSO

NSO Buys Counter-Drone Company Convexum

12.02.20|Meir Orbach

The Israeli cyber surveillance company will pay $60 million in cash to add a new business segment to its operations

ביל מרזק עמית מחקר בכיר ב מכון סיטיזן לאב של אוניברסיטת טורונטו

We Do Not Target NSO, but Most Evidence Leads to Them, Says Digital Human Rights Researcher

04.02.20|Omer Kabir

Bill Marczak, a senior research fellow at Citizen Lab and at University of California, Berkeley, is behind much of the research that exposed NSO’s operations

אריאלה בן אברהם צנזורית

Israel’s Military Censor Asks for Early Release From Service Following NSO Job Offer

05.01.20|Golan Hazani

Ariella Ben-Avraham is in talks to join the infamous surveillance company as its head of public relations

ועידת Mind the tech TLV שירי דולב נשיאה NSO

If We Could Share What NSO Really Does, Media Discourse Would Change, Says Exec

Shiri Dolev, president and chief product officer of Israeli cyber surveillance company NSO, spoke Monday at Calcalist’s Mind the Tech conference in Tel Aviv

יחידת 8200 ב גלילות

High Profile Spy Companies Are Damaging Israel’s Image

20.11.19|Omer Kabir

Israel’s tech ecosystem is world-renowned for its innovation, but companies like NSO, Black Cube, and AnyVision are casting a sinister shadow over it

Anywhere You Look, Civil Rights Activists Are Surveilled, Says Citizen Lab Researcher

05.11.19|Omer Kabir

John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, spoke to Calcalist about his work with WhatsApp to uncover NSO Group's alleged hack of its servers

מימין שלו חוליו ו עמרי לביא מייסדי NSO

NSO Commits to U.N. Human Rights Principles

10.09.19|Hagar Ravet

The Israeli cyber surveillance company, which has been previously linked with the alleged persecution of journalists and social activists, published on Tuesday a human rights policy to which it said clients would be required to adhere

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