As our mission is to protect Lebanese citizens’ right to digital privacy, we ran a technical security and privacy analysis on the …
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SMEX is seeking a part-time researcher to work on a project analyzing the threats to internet access and digital privacy faced by …
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This article appeared first on MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Region . “It was my mistake and I am sorry.” This is …
As the Covid-19 virus continues to spread across the world, governments are adopting surveillance measures to track patients, raising privacy concerns. Lebanon, …
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