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The human story behind the last big scoop in tech news: Ahmed Mansoor (en)

The human story behind the last big scoop in tech news: Ahmed Mansoor (en)

re:publica 17 - All Sessions vor 9 Jahren

You all might have heard about the Case of Ahmed Mansoor, or rather: his IPhone, on which Security Researchers discovered a very unusual spyware. Since then, Ahmed Mansoors life was impacted in many different - negative- ways.

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Iyad El-Baghdadi In March 2017, the United Arab Emirates' security
forces arrested Ahmed Mansoor, the last remaining Emirati human
rights defender willing and able to speak out about human rights
violations in the country. Unfairly detained, tried and released in
2011, since at least then, the authorities had placed him under
physical and electronic surveillance. His computer and email
accounts have been hacked and he foiled an attempted hack of his
iPhone in 2016, which prompted Apple to issue a security update to
the smartphone in August 2016. Since his arrest this March, the
lack of clarity regarding his whereabouts and situation is in stark
contrast to the projection of modernity that is today's UAE. Iyad
will talk about Ahmed Mansoor's work (the man behind the myth of
the "million dollar dissident") and the role that the tech
community can play in shining a light on human rights violations in
the UAE.