Hacker News with Generative AI: Serbia

Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia (amnesty.org)
This report documents how Serbian authorities have deployed surveillance technology and digital repression tactics as instruments of wider state control and repression directed against civil society.

Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Serbia, Human Rights, Repression

71 points by walterbell 15 days ago | 44 comments

Qualcomm DSP Driver – How Serbian authorities deployed surveillance technology (circl.lu)
Amnesty International identified how Serbian authorities used Cellebrite to exploit a zero-day vulnerability (a software flaw which is not known to the original software developer and for which a software fix is not available) in Android devices to gain privileged access to an environmental activist’s phone.

Surveillance Technology, Android, Cybersecurity, Serbia, Human Rights

5 points by cedricbonhomme 31 days ago | 0 comments

"A Digital Prison": Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia (amnesty.org)
This is the Executive Summary of Amnesty International’s report on surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia. Please click here for the full report in PDF format.

Surveillance, Civil Liberties, Serbia, Human Rights, Amnesty International

26 points by arp242 33 days ago | 1 comments

Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds (theguardian.com)
Police and intelligence services in Serbia are using advanced mobile forensics products and previously unknown spyware to illegally surveil journalists, environmental campaigners and civil rights activists, according to a report.

Surveillance, Human Rights, Serbia, Journalism, Politics

13 points by beardyw 33 days ago | 2 comments

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo (2016) (new-east-archive.org)

Photography, Serbia, Social Media, Online Culture, History

130 points by omnibrain 132 days ago | 86 comments

Galaksija and Računari u VAšoj kućI: 40th Anniversary Celebration (vladovince.com)

Anniversaries, Technology, Computing, Serbia

22 points by todsacerdoti 186 days ago | 0 comments

Archaeology team discovers a 7k-year-old settlement in Serbia (phys.org)

Archaeology, History, Serbia, Settlements

32 points by msolujic 262 days ago | 0 comments

Brown Danube: How Belgrade's sewers taint Europe's famous river (phys.org)

Pollution, Environmental Issues, Europe, Serbia, Water

12 points by Michelangelo11 273 days ago | 1 comments