Privacy

In this Page: Invitation to join the application Who do we follow, and who follows us Who listens to what Weak account protection Texting within the application Recording sessions conversations Fake copies What steps Clubhouse should take to enhance security and privacy? In March 2020, Clubhouse was launched as one of the startup social media […]

In July 2020, the Personal Data Protection Law was passed (No. 151 of 2020), a year after its publication, of which most of the rules stipulated are still suspended, for non–issuance of the executive regulations, where the law referred a large number of procedural aspects to the executive regulations, and even referred to the essential […]

Download PDF Introduction Egypt has passed these recent years through successive legislative developments aiming, largely, to attempt establishing organizational and procedural rules for the technological developments and the use of information technology by individuals and companies. Such legislative developments come under the notion that technological development requires laws that enhance and protect the rights of […]

Users rely on smartphone applications daily to accomplish their personal and professional tasks and communicate with others, and users – usually- keep personal files and data on their phones, whether they are pictures and videos or other information and data such as banking information, chats, and web browsing history, in addition to the data collected […]

Users have been increasingly depending on smartphone applications to get their daily tasks done. For years, the spread and the scale of the applications have been widening to the point that smartphones are being used more often than desktops. Smartphones are no longer limited to connecting people. With the spread of privacy violation practices by […]

People have become increasingly reliant on instant messaging applications in their daily routine, whether for personal or business communication. This makes it crucial to pay attention to the data these applications collect about us. Here is a comparison of the privacy and digital security features offered by some of the most used messaging apps. SMEX […]

Download a copy in PDF format Contents Introduction Egyptians generally suffer from weak legal protection to their ‘right to privacy’. In connection to this, and as regards the data collected by the government during daily administrative dealings, and the data collected by private companies from their clients, there exist several legislative loopholes that allow for […]