Edan Ring

Edan Ring is an Israeli researcher and lecturer on media, technology and civil rights.

On Pegasus

Edan Ring, 4 November 2021

With​ the Covid infection rate soaring in spring last year, Naftali Bennett – Israel’s then defence minister, now its prime minister – came up with an original approach to the crisis. As an emergency measure, the domestic security service, Shin Bet, had already been tasked with reporting the movements of mobile phone users for the purposes of contact tracing, making Israel...

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