COVID-19 RESOURCES PORTAL
Find the latest cases studies, webinars and responses from INCLO members on protest rights and surveillance during COVID-19
Israel: Security services cannot collect Covid patients’ mobile data without law
On March 14, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to launch emergency regulations to enable the country’s internal security service, Shin Bet, to retrospectively track Covid-19 patients through their mobile phones in order to see who they interacted with in the days and weeks before they were tested and for those people to be […]
RECENT CASE STUDIES
Protest & Policing
Indonesia: Critic of Covid-19 response arrested after phone hack and WhatsApp call to riot
On April 21, as Indonesia responded to Covid-19, police in Jakarta announced a ban on all May Day rallies. The ban came ahead of planned protests against a bill on job creation which unions said would reduce labour rights and followed reports that police in Jakarta had launched an investigation into an anarcho-syndicalism group which […]
Surveillance
Israel: Security services cannot collect Covid patients’ mobile data without law
On March 14, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to launch emergency regulations to enable the country’s internal security service, Shin Bet, to retrospectively track Covid-19 patients through their mobile phones in order to see who they interacted with in the days and weeks before they were tested and for those people to be […]
Webinars
Webinar #2: COVID19 & Surveillance
The COVID19 & Surveillance webinar is the 2nd in a series of online events hosted by INCLO that discuss responses to COVID19 in relation to the human rights issues that became urgent in the work of our member organizations around the world. During the COVID19 pandemic, contact tracing apps, drones, and face surveillance are being […]