Artur Papyan, Ruben Muradyan on Armenia’s Draft Law on Mass Surveillance and Cybersecurity Track Record | Ep 344, July 15, 2024

Chapters

1. 00:00 Intro to show with Artur Papyan and Ruben Muradyan
2. 00:33 An overview of the draft law on surveilance
3. 04:26 Are business being forced to accept additional financial and administrative costs?
4. 05:50 Why does the government say it needs this surveillance overhead?
5. 06:33 The lack of any civilian control or review over police actions.
6. 06:46 The current Armenian HR Ombuds office is disinterested and useless.
7. 07:01 The police has no capacity to collect and record this data
8. 07:26 The law may be implemented with unlimited police access to the data
9. 08:41 The case of the effort in 2018-2019 to start a Smart City with Huawei
10. 10:39 More history on the projects with Huawei, that go further back than 2018
11. 11:47 The government's attempt to install malware on citizens' cellphones during Covid
12. 12:26 Proposed law contradicts law on personal data
13. 13:45 Two main issues from a digital security perspective
14. 14:56 The government's inability to protect digital assets from enemies
15. 15:57 Pledge break: GIVE to Groong, become a sustaining member.
16. 18:22 Security vs Privacy issues and the catches within the law
17. 20:28 How will Telco industry react to this law?
18. 21:40 A government that fights against all efforts at transparency and the lack of mandatory disclose laws
19. 24:03 What is the status of the proposed law?
20. 27:28 Is the government planning to do mass facial recognition?
21. 28:16 About the community of coalitions struggling against the surveillance state
22. 28:45 About the Media Diversity Institute
23. 30:58 Who is driving the surveillance bill?
24. 33:25 Does this government have the capacity to secure this magnitude of private data?
25. 34:50 Other draft laws in this sphere revive periodically
26. 37:25 Why is Armenian civil society silent colluding with government to implement pervasive surveillance?
27. 41:27 How does USAID's $5 million of AWS to Armenian gov feed into this law and project?
28. 42:40 Armenian government's Cloud First initiative and possible consequences
29. 45:45 The issue od Data Sovereignty
30. 47:05 Nearest Amazon data center for Armenia, GDPR
31. 49:55 Armenia's existing IT workforce and AWS
32. 51:59 Major Risks to housing Armenia's Mission Critical data outside Armenia
33. 52:55 The mentality of outsourcing the solutions to our problems
34. 54:42 Does Armenia's data protection law say anything about shipping personal data out of the country?
35. 55:52 Did Government investigate, analyze, report on Azeri intrusions during the 44-day war?
36. 59:37 About Artur Papyan and Ruben Muradyan
37. 59:59 Final pledge: Give to Groong!