Tag: surveillance
Sandton Central’s high-tech CCTV network takes shape
Sandton Central, known as South Africa’s commercial hub, is home to a wide array of national and international corporate offices, financial services, businesses, and...
SAPS Issues Tender to Equip National & Local Security Control Centres...
The South African Police Service has issued a tender for a network of CCTV cameras. This tender, Specification 32161/2024 aims to “establish a roster/panel...
Vumacam partners with Hatfield CID to keep community safe
Vumacam has its eye all over the Hatfield City Improvement District (CID) in Tshwane.
One of SA’s leading provider of video surveillance and management solutions,...
Hensoldt developing new Bushbaby 200 surveillance system
Fresh after launching its Bushbaby 100 electro-optical surveillance system at the World Defence Show in Saudi Arabia last month, Hensoldt South Africa is finishing...
South Africa’s proposed new spying law is open for comment –...
In early 2021, the South African Constitutional Court found that the country’s State Security Agency, through its signals intelligence agency, the National Communication Centre,...
Some African governments are spending millions to spy on their citizens
Governments around the world use surveillance technology to monitor external threats to national security. Some African governments are also spending vast sums on mass...
Zimbabwe turns to Chinese technology to expand surveillance of citizens
In early 2021, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially opened the country’s National Data Center, proclaiming the Chinese-built data hub key to the country’s economic...
Africa urged to wake up to growing state surveillance threat
African governments are using new technology and laws to increase surveillance of opposition figures, researchers warned on Thursday, calling for restrictions on the sale...
Chinese smart tech fraught with risk
Chinese technology firms have been peddling “safe city” and “smart city” packages of technology in Africa for years. Suites of interconnected products and services...
China’s coronavirus campaign offers glimpse into surveillance system
The coronavirus outbreak in China has given unprecedented glimpses into how an extensive system of surveillance cameras works, as monitoring stations are rebranded epidemic...
Will coronavirus surveillance outlast the pandemic?
From facial recognition to phone tracking, authorities rolled out a range of surveillance tools to trace infections and enforce quarantines during the coronavirus outbreak.
The...
Artificial intelligence supercharges surveillance, enabling access to petabytes of untapped data
Surveillance has reached the next level, with the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) supercharging this technology. The use...
Drones safeguarding SA properties, mines and wildlife
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have applications in multiple industries due to their ability to conduct surveillance and gather data on...
Rostec supplied the Russian Aerospace Forces with sixth A-50U surveillance plane
28 March 2019 - Vega Concern, a member of Rostec’s Ruselectronics holding company, and Beriev Air Company supplied the Russian Aerospace Forces with a...
Egypt orders border security system from US
Egypt will be receiving a $64 million border security system from Advanced Technology Systems in the United States.
The United States Department of...
R2K uncovers large-scale govt phone surveillance
The Right2Know Campaign (R2K) has released statistics from SA's mobile operators that show government law enforcement agencies are spying on the communications...
Russia now flying drone surveillance missions in Syria
Russia has started flying drone aircraft on surveillance missions in Syria, US officials said, in what appeared to be Moscow's first military...
U.S. NSA sued by Wikimedia, rights groups over mass surveillance
The U.S. National Security Agency was sued on Tuesday by Wikimedia and other groups challenging one of its mass surveillance programs that...
Improved Nigerian maritime surveillance and response cuts crude oil theft and...
Piracy, crude oil theft and other illegal operations in Nigeria's maritime environment are a major source of revenue leakage and the Nigerian...
SANDF hosts first SADC surveillance commanders’ course
In a first for the South African Defence Intelligence College (SADIC) officers from nine Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have successfully...
Learning from terrorist tradecraft
A week after he was arrested in Chicago on Oct. 3, David Coleman Headley was charged in a federal criminal complaint with...
Carl Zeiss wins R100 million police Air Wing world cup order
The South African Police Services (SAPS) Air Wing has awarded Carl Zeiss Optronics SA a R100 million contract to supply it eight...
