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Ministry of Information Application Threatens Citizens’ Privacy
Feature image via national news agency, June 2018: Minister of information Melham Riachy launching the Eye Police Application . Eye…
New Elections Study Shows Less than 2% of Overall Electoral Speech on Social Media Was Negative
Feature image April 2018: A screenshot of the API used to track social media posts. SMEX and LADE collaborated to…
Digital Rights Roundup: Lebanese woman gets eights years in Egypt for video, Twitter bans 35 accounts at Israel’s request, and a 15 year old detained in Lebanon for WhatsApp story
Feature image Egypt today, July 2018: A screenshot from Mona el-Mazbouh’s apology video. A Lebanese tourist was sentenced to eight…
Press Release: Beware of Unverified WhatsApp Applications
Many websites and hyperlinks to unverified WhatsApp applications–marketed as “WhatsApp Plus” and promising its users additional features for free–are being…
Lebanese WhatsApp Users Report Their Accounts Have Been Compromised
According to a statement from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF), several WhatsApp users have complained that their accounts have…
