Governments Turn to Commercial Spyware to Intimidate Dissidents
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/technology/governments-turn-to-commercial-spyware-to-intimidate-dissidents.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The barriers to join the global surveillance apparatus have
never been lower. Dozens of companies, ranging from NSO Group
and Cellebrite in Israel to Finfisher in Germany and Hacking
Team in Italy, sell digital spy tools to governments. A
number of companies in the United States are training foreign
law enforcement and intelligence officials to code their own
surveillance tools. In many cases these tools are able to
circumvent security measures like encryption. Some countries
are using them to watch dissidents. Others are using them to
aggressively silence and punish their critics, inside and
outside their borders.
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The individual consultants and/or executives of the firms that enable
this by knowingly teaching these techniques or selling associated
systems or software to these countries should be held criminally
liable and locked up with long prison sentences.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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