Surveillance
EU expands Russia sanctions over cybercrime, surveillance and rights abuses
VKontakte and several Russian surveillance firms were added to the EU sanctions list over alleged ties to the FSB and the repression of government critics.
Former IDF intel. officer sentenced to prison term in Greek spying case
Anthropic says Chinese AI labs stole data from Claude to train rival models
Israeli firm Autonomous Guard enters Indian defense market with $1.9m deal
High Court puts the heat on Shin Bet coronavirus surveillance
The High Court had previously appeared to support Shin Bet surveillance of coronavirus-infected citizens.
Israel's new virus surveillance system detects masks and social distancing
However, the monitoring system does not have facial recognition capabilities.
Amnesty International vs. Morocco and Israel
Lately Amnesty has been targeting Israel through its fixation on Pegasus, a software that can be “injected” into smartphones to track the user’s location, calls, messages, etc.
Shin Bet spied on civilians for years without Knesset approval - report
A limited committee formed by the Justice Ministry approved the plan and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit later approved the plan as well.
Four takeaways on how privacy did in Shin Bet-coronavirus surveillance law
US federal court rules lawsuit against Israeli NSO can continue
The United States District Court of the Northern District of California denied most of the arguments NSo Group made in its request in April.
Knesset reinstates Shin Bet surveillance of coronavirus infected citizens
Program authorized for 21 days, long-term bill still under debate
Knesset c'tee approves reinstating Shin Bet coronavirus surveillance
Program authorized for 21 days, long-term bill still under debate
Knesset moves toward reinstating Shin Bet corona surveillance
Program authorized for 21 days, long-term bill still under debate
Shin Bet surveillance schizophrenia - analysis
No democratic country in the world, including some doing better than Israel in combating corona, is using its intelligence services to track infected citizens.