Netanyahu Left Flailing Amid New Scandal; Israel Turns 5G Into Spyware

About this episode

The episode discusses a new scandal involving Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel's use of telecommunications for surveillance purposes.

Israel’s phone-spying scandal is no longer foreign policy - it’s a test of whether your government protects you, or protects Israel. Right, so Benjamin Netanyahu has a new scandal round his neck, and this one reaches into the phone network people carry in their pockets and not just in Israel or just the Middle East either. A major digital research group has exposed two covert telecom surveillance campaigns, with attack traffic linked to mobile operator signalling infrastructure and with Israeli-linked networks and surveillance firms very much implicated. Regional coverage has put it more bluntly: Israeli telecommunications infrastructure, from old signalling systems right up to modern 5G, has been used to help turn phones into tracking devices across more than ten countries. Now that is not a claim that every phone in Britain has been hacked, but the hidden machinery behind mobile roaming, texts, location updates and network trust has been abused so phones can be located without the user seeing anything happen. Netanyahu’s problem is that the word security that he constantly mouths off to justify everything, now comes back at him stinking of surveillance, and every government…

People in this episode

Host: Damien Willey

Topics covered

• surveillance
• Israel
• telecommunications
• Netanyahu
• 5G
• privacy
• government accountability

Keywords

• Netanyahu
• surveillance
• Israel
• 5G
• Citizen Lab
• telecom
• privacy
• government
• scandal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Citizen Lab

Products: 5G

Places: Israel, Britain, Middle East

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