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SMEX • 01 Feb 2021

Device Seizures in Lebanon: Assessing the Legal Framework concerning device seizures [Report]

We have witnessed in the last couple of years a striking increase in the number of devices seized by security…

  • Device Seizures in Lebanon
  • Digital Surveillance
  • E-Transactions and Personal Data Law
SMEX • 21 Sep 2020

Surveillance in Lebanon: A crisis of privacy

This article is a crosspost from Global Voices. This article is part of UPROAR, a Small Media initiative that is…

  • Crosspost
  • Dark Caracal
  • Digital Surveillance
smexadmin • 19 Mar 2018

Two New MENA-Region Exploits Demonstrate the Desire for Information Control

The discovery of the Dark Caracal surveillance scheme in Lebanon earlier this year put the world on notice that states…

  • Citizen Lab
  • Digital Surveillance
  • Information Control
smexadmin • 14 Dec 2016

SMEX Launches Inaugural Report on Digital Surveillance in Lebanon

  In the absence of a comprehensive constitutional framework on privacy rights and data protection in Lebanon and amid a…

  • Digital Surveillance
  • Lebanon
  • Reports