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Can a U.N. Report Help Rein in Expansive and Abusive Digital Surveillance?
Steven Feldstein
发表日期2019-07-09
出处World Politics Review
出版年2019
语种英语
摘要As digital surveillance abuse challenges national security, what can national and foreign governments do to curb this breach of privacy?
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Earlier this year, Reuters broke a stunning story. It disclosed that intelligence services from the United Arab Emirates had hired ex-U.S. operatives from the National Security Agency to hack into the iPhones of Emirati citizens in order to access their personal phone numbers, emails, passwords and even follow their location. The operation, code-named “Project Raven,” was supposed to track Islamic State cells. But Reuters uncovered a much more sinister pattern of surveillance. Under the guise of national security, Raven contractors broke into the personal communications of scores of human rights activists, civil society leaders and investigative journalists, both in the United Arab Emirates and in the United States, including American citizens.

One of the targets was Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor, a public critic of the UAE’s human rights record; in 2015, he won the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders, considered by some the Nobel Prize for human rights. Using an advanced surveillance tool named “Karma,” Raven operatives downloaded troves of material from Mansoor’s personal computer—email screenshots, private phone numbers, personal photos. The Emirati government then used this material to convict Mansoor in a secret 2017 trial, nominally for “damaging the country’s unity” after taking photos of a prisoner he visited in an Emirati jail, and sentenced him to 10 years in solitary confinement. 

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This article was originally published by the World Politics Review.

主题Americas ; United States ; Middle East ; United Arab Emirates ; Global Governance ; Cyberspace ; Technology
URLhttps://carnegieendowment.org/2019/07/09/can-u.n.-report-help-rein-in-expansive-and-abusive-digital-surveillance-pub-79474
来源智库Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (United States)
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条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/423882
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