{"id":848,"date":"2026-10-01T03:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/?p=848"},"modified":"2026-10-01T03:28:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:28:20","slug":"france-24-cop27-app-gives-egypts-sisi-access-to-every-move-attendees-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/france-24-cop27-app-gives-egypts-sisi-access-to-every-move-attendees-make\/","title":{"rendered":"(France 24)  COP27 app gives Egypt\u2019s Sisi access to every move attendees make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/africa\/20221108-cop27-app-gives-egypt-s-sisi-access-to-every-move-attendees-make\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not the official UN application that\u2019s the problem; it\u2019s the one developed by the Egyptian government that bothers us,&#8221; explained Katharina Rall, senior environment researcher at Human Rights Watch, who participated in the NGO\u2019s investigation into the repressive measures put in place by Egypt ahead of COP27.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian app, which was rolled out on October 24, is supposed to &#8220;improve the COP27 experience for all participants&#8221;. It allows users to manage flight and hotel reservations, get information about Covid-19, and provides agendas for on-site meetings as well as a calendar of negotiations and roundtables.<\/p>\n<p>The all-in-one tool has already been downloaded by more than 5,000 delegates and visitors (out of a total of 44,000 registered participants) who were probably reassured by the fact that this Egyptian application is promoted on the official UN website for the COP27. The UN imprimatur &#8220;appears very problematic to us, and we have the right to wonder why there was no verification beforehand&#8221;, said Rall.<br \/>\n\u2018Unlimited trust certificate\u2019 with access to all<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the app was rolled out last month, cybersecurity experts realised that it was &#8220;a cartoon super-villain of an app\u201d, as Gennie Gebhart from the Electronic Frontier Foundation put it in an interview with the British daily, The Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Comments<\/p>\n<p>Here is another topic I found online<\/p>\n<p>Please do more research<\/p>\n<p>Additional Eesources<\/p>\n<p>Middle east Eye<\/p>\n<p>New York Times<\/p>\n<p>Adding this comments<\/p>\n<p>Please shre our web site help us to make our voice reachable<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a link &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not the official UN application that&rsquo;s the problem; it&rsquo;s the one developed by the Egyptian government that bothers us,&rdquo; explained Katharina Rall, senior environment researcher at Human Rights Watch, who participated in the NGO&rsquo;s investigation into the repressive measures put in place by Egypt ahead of COP27. The Egyptian app, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.whatistandfor.co\/humanrights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}