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Website Blocking in the Arab Region: Monitoring and Counteraction Techniques
Governments in various Arab countries are increasingly investing in financial and human resources to control internet content and the free…

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…

Security Concerns with Lebanon’s New Contact Tracing App
On September 1, the Ministry of Public Health launched Ma3an – Together Against Corona, a contact-tracing application intended to stop…

Terranet Should Update Their Infrastructure Security And Be Transparent About Their Users’ Information Safety
On September 8, many websites in Lebanon, including governmental ones, were hacked by an alleged Iranian hacker. After a quick…

COVID-19 Fake News in Lebanon: Who Is Responsible?
The advent of COVID-19 (known locally as the coronavirus) in Lebanon last February has further deepened existing divisions within certain…