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Miaan Group has documented multiple attacks on civil society groups inside and outside of Iran, which constitute the largest and most coordinated impersonation and phishing...
Filterwatch
5 months ago
Facial recognition and liveness detection are technologies that can identify and verify the identity of a person based on their facial features. Iran’s government has...
Louis Shakibi
6 months ago
New developments surrounding the progress of the dangerous "Online Services Bill" unfolded as the ICT Minister attended a public parliamentary session.
Melody Kazemi
17 Jan 2022
Iran's domestic messaging apps continue to be a major privacy and security concern as further evidence of them forcing users onto these platforms emerge.
Melody Kazemi
30 Nov 2021
The ICT Minister's clash with the judiciary was over a number of claims, but defending Internet freedoms in Iran was not one of them.
Filterwatch
01 Feb 2021
A number of fresh policy developments emerged, including two new Majles bills. The biggest development however was the execution of the Iranian dissident and journalist...
Melody Kazemi
11 Jan 2021
With yet another data leak, Iran's need for adequate data protection frameworks is clear. We explore how the National Information Network prevents this from happening.
Melody Kazemi
19 Jun 2020
As states turn to tech to help track and contain the pandemic, Iran’s poor record on privacy and data protection is holding it back.
Kaveh Azarhoosh
26 May 2020