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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Technology
Beatrice Zemelyte

‘Weaponised app’: Is Egypt spying on COP27 delegates’ phones?

A woman takes a selfie at the COP27 climate summit in the Green Zone in Sharm el-Sheikh [Mohamed Abd El-Ghany/Reuters]

Cybersecurity concerns have been raised at the United Nations’ COP27 climate talks over an official smartphone app that reportedly has carte blanche to monitor locations, private conversations and photographs.

About 35,000 people are expected to attend the two-week climate conference in Egypt, and the app has been downloaded more than 10,000 times on Google Play, including by officials from France, Germany and Canada.

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