AMMAN — A report
published by the ServShark website, which specializes in the field of
cybersecurity, showed that Jordan ranks first among Arab countries when it
comes to monitoring internet users’ accounts, with 19.05 cases per 100,000
users.
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Between 2013 and
2020, it carried out the monitoring by requesting users’ data from Apple,
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft companies.
According to the
report, Kuwait ranked second, with 3.89 cases per 100,000 users, Morocco came
in third with 2.9 cases, the UAE fourth with 2.56 cases, and Qatar fifth with
2.36 cases per every 100,000 users.
Cybersecurity
expert Hussein Al-Jedaya told
Jordan News that the issue “is related to the
level of digital well-being in countries”; Jordan ranks 41st, out of 110
countries, in the digital well-being index in terms of the number of Internet
users”.
He said that the
report “is vague and unclear”, as it is based on requests submitted by Jordan
to manufacturers such as Apple and Microsoft to obtain user data.
According to him,
the government requests data in order to “fight cybercrimes and cases such as
money laundering, and combat corruption”.
“With the increase
in the number of internet users, the matter has become a necessity for Jordan
and other countries,” he said, underlining that the request for users’ data
“does not mean that they have been hacked”.
“It is an attempt
to find out who the account holder is and determine if there is an attempt to
carry out any fraud or electronic extortion,” he said, stressing that “the
digital party is an unknown party, hence the necessity and importance of
identifying the user’s data and monitoring it”.
Mohammad Alia,
professor in cybersecurity cryptography, told
Jordan News that security is
resistance to any potential damage from external forces, stressing that “real
security is linked to cybersecurity concepts”.
According to him,
the primary beneficiary of security is the users (citizen, institutions and
others), “while the government comes in the second place”.
Alia stressed that
the primary role of governments is to ensure security and preempt problems from
occurring.
He added that “in
light of the digital chaos, it was necessary for governments to adjust their
plans and policies in line with current technology, and to sign security
agreements with companies that provide electronic social media services in
order to investigate and monitor the security of their citizens’ accounts
without breaching or overriding their privacy”.
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