Yesterday, Microsoft's venture capital division, M12, announced that it was divesting its $31-million ownership stake in the Israeli facial recognition software company, Anyvision. Israeli media had reported that Anyvision had a contract with Israeli Occupation authorities to maintain a database of West Bank Palestinians. Human rights groups have found … [Read more...]
Israel’s Secret Police Maintain Massive Database on All Citizens with Little Oversight
DONATE: While the world's attention is rightly focused on the Coronavirus pandemic, it has lost sight of many other critical global developments. I have in fact noticed that the site traffic to this blog has declined considerably during this period. I am concerned that the world is ignoring crucial issues, even ones that have a direct connection to the … [Read more...]
Israel’s Shin Bet Transforms Mission from Hunting Terrorists to Hunting the Sick
One of the many anti-democratic ploys unleashed by the Likud in the last dying days of its control over current Israeli politics, was the end-around Bibi Netanyahu did circumventing the Knesset to employ a secret database of all Israeli citizens and monitor them for Covid-19. The NY Times reports that a 2002 directive permitted the Shin Bet secret police to … [Read more...]
World’s Leading Cyber-Attack Company, NSO Group, Ranked in Top-20 “Worst Digital Predators”
NSO Group is once again in the news, and not in a good way. Reporters Without Borders created a new Hall of Shame list of the world's worst "digital predators." That is, countries and companies engaged in the most egregious violations of human rights, press freedom, and personal privacy: To mark this year’s World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, celebrated on … [Read more...]
