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DAEM, a “Social Safety Net” or a Data Collection Net?
In September 2021, the Ministry of Social Affairs and IMPACT, the Central Inspection’s e-governance platform, launched DAEM, a program that…
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Jawaker Needs to Improve its Privacy Policy
Jawaker, a card game application popular in Arabic-speaking countries, has been recently sold to the Swedish company Stillfront. It would…
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The National Poverty Targeting Program Risks Lebanese Citizens’ Data
As our mission is to protect Lebanese citizens’ right to digital privacy, we ran a technical security and privacy analysis…
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Is Lebanese citizens’ data safe on IMPACT’s platforms?
Update: IMPACT responded to the concerns raised in this article with some clarifications about some of the mentioned points. In…
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Lebanon: Your Data is Not Secure on MoPH’s GrabAJab Platform
Update— IMPACT responded to our concerns by suspending Grabajab’s access to patients’ data pending the resolution of security issues. Nonetheless,…