Mass surveillance? France looks to algorithms to detect online terror threats
Critics have warned that the new legislation is so wide that it poses a serious a threat to data privacy
28 April 2021 • 6:27pm
The algorithms would enable agents to spot someone who had accessed extremist websites several times
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France on Wednesday tabled draft anti-terror legislation that would permit the controversial use of algorithms to pick up potential threats from jihadist and other extremist websites.
A key measure would extend the use by French intelligence of algorithms to track extremists, a method already on trial since 2015 to monitor messaging apps.
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Despite putting in a new privacy policy in place for its users across the world, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is still one of the most downloaded apps in Nigeria in 2021.
Statistics obtained from SimilarWeb on Monday showed that WhatsApp is the third most downloaded app as of January 9. NIMC Mobile and Opera News Lite mobile apps are the only ones that have been downloaded more times than WhatsApp.
GoCash and Audiomack complete the top five list on Google Playstore.
In the App Store, WhatsApp tops the list, while Instagram and Facebook (both of which are owned by the same company that owns WhatsApp), as well as SnapChat and Audiomack, round off the top-five list.