Open Letter: International Coalition urges Apple to abandon surveillance features in its products
Tim Cook CEO, Apple, Inc. Dear Mr. Cook: The undersigned organisations committed to civil rights, human rights and digital rights around the world are writing to urge Apple to abandon the plans it announced on 5 August 2021 to build surveillance capabilities into iPhones, iPads and other Apple products. Though these capabilities are intended to […]
Child security and encryption: interview with Jeremy Malcolm, from Prostasia Foundation
The Encryption Observatory (ObCrypto) interviewed Jeremy Malcolm, founder and Executive Director of Prostasia Foundation, a non-profit organization based in the United States with focus on the development of solutions on the combat of child sexual abuse while guaranteeing human and civil rights. The interview addressed issues related with public policy proposals in the United States […]
O passo em falso da Apple e os riscos do client-side scanning
Por André Ramiro e Pedro Amaral Na primeira semana de agosto, a Apple anunciou um conjunto de medidas para combater a circulação de material relacionado a abuso sexual infantil (em inglês, child sexual abuse material, ou “CSAM”) em seus serviços. Resumidamente, as três mudanças anunciadas incluem: i) no iMessage, haverá avisos sobre a sensibilidade do […]
Global Encryption Coalition, em nota pública, levanta os riscos à criptografia com a Reforma do Código de Processo Penal
Recentemente, a Global Encryption Coalition, coalizão da qual o Instituto de Pesquisa em Direito e Tecnologia (IP.rec) é signatário, publicou nota crítica ao texto do relator João Campos (Republicanos – GO) do projeto da Reforma do Código de Processo Penal. Dentre os problemas, a nota assinada por 31 entidades aponta como o projeto de lei […]
The traceability provisions in India – interview with Kazim Rizvi, from The Dialogue
The Encryption Observatory (ObCrypto) interviewed the Indian organization The Dialogue to understand the nuances of the new rules that force messaging application providers to deploy ways to permit the traceability of messages, under risks of liability. Questions about the local political and social landscape were addressed, the demands of law enforcement forces, as well as […]
When Crypto Wars meet the Brazilian techno-authoritarianism
By Ana Bárbara Gomes, Gustavo Rodrigues and Victor Vieira, Institute for Research on Internet and Society (IRIS) A study by IRIS and ISOC Brasil mapped the perceptions of professionals who drive the public debate about exceptional access in Brazil. In view of the results, we reflected on the risks of abuse of the tool in […]
Quando as Crypto Wars encontram o tecnoautoritarismo brasileiro
Por Ana Bárbara Gomes, Gustavo Rodrigues e Victor Vieira do Instituto de Referência em Internet e Sociedade (IRIS) Um estudo do IRIS e da ISOC Brasil mapeou as percepções dos profissionais que movimentam o debate público sobre o acesso excepcional no Brasil. Diante dos resultados, refletimos sobre os riscos de abuso da ferramenta à luz […]
