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17 November 202217 November 2022

Qatari World Cup apps

There is no denying the fact that the compulsory Qatari World Cup apps, Ehteraz, a Covid-19 tracker from the Qatari Ministry of Public Health, and Hayya from the Qatari Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy for the World Cup, will be collecting a lot of information on everyone attending. This …

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18 October 202217 November 2022

There was the story of taking burner phones to China for the Olympics – now we have the Qatar World Cup spyware

I found this on Bruce Schneier’s blog: I covered the story of the Beijing 2022 Olympics and the privacy issues raised for those attending, and the advice that burner phones would be a good idea because of China’s internet and privacy policies: Privacy in China and the Winter Olympics – …

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